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going into this week it’s going to be just as big as any other week.”

Over the course of his career, the linebacker forced two fumbles and snagged three interceptions. A ll but one of those turnovers came last season. In both of his 2021 interceptions, Kiser ran the pick for six points, once against Wisconsin and again over Georgia Tech.

Kiser has also been dominant in his tack ling.

With 26 on the season, 10 of them solo and one of them a sack, he’s had more than half of last year’s total only four games in. He doesn’t miss them either — Kiser has only three missed tack les in his career, all coming back in 2020.

“W hen I grab on, I’m not going to let go,” he said. “But it’s three too many [missed tackles]. Hopefully this year

we can get that down to zero and be perfect in tack ling because you have to be.”

Even so, the Irish — Kiser included — have been focused on making sure they don’t lose anyone else to targeting calls and are tack ling well.

“It’s super tough.

They’re on scholarship, you’re on scholarship. You’re tr ying to win the game. At times, they’re 230 pounds and you’re tr ying to get them down, right?

At the same time you have to keep in your head there’s a strike zone.

W hen it’s a bang-bang play it’s tough but you gotta know to keep your head up and you’ve gotta avoid their upper shoulder, neck, head area. That’s something that we’ve been emphasizing the last couple weeks,” Kiser said.

W hile he says honing the technique has been important, Kiser also said they can’t falter worr ying about that call being made though.

“You can’t be scared to make a tack le because you have something in the back of your head that tells you not to,” he said. “But you have to be smart and you have to think about it so it’s a tough balance.

We’re getting a scholarship to play football and as a defensive player, you’ve got to be able to find that balance… you’ve just got to trust yourself and be confident in your teaching and your ability and your technique to just go out there and play and make the best tackle you can.”

In terms of what else he’s been working on, Kiser said in an interview earlier this season that he’s focused on “using [his] hands, being physical and block destruction.”

He’s still working on those pieces while preparing for BY U this week.

Despite not having Bertrand, Kiser trusts the group that will be out there to get the job done this weekend.

They had a test run without Bertrand against the Tar Heels as this is his second game in a row with a targeting call.

“I have complete confidence in whoever is out on the field that’s on this defense, they put in the preparation, they put in the work and they’re good enough to be out there and compete. If that’s me, if that’s Marist, if it’s Bo, whoever it is, we’re gonna get the job done and we’re gonna fill in and we’re gonna pick up right where J.D. left off,” Kiser said.

The defense has their work cut out for them this weekend. A scrambling quarterback with receiving weapons has tripped up the Irish defense before this season. Heading into Las Vegas, Kiser said communication will be key.

“The whole back seven, we’re going to have to be on top of our game, communicationwise you know, we can’t have any breakdowns,”

he said. “North Carolina week unfortunately we had some breakdowns and we can’t let that happen this week.”

He added though that the need to play perfectly extends to the whole defense, especially this weekend. He feels like the defense knows what to expect from

BY U though and they’re prepared to answer it.

“If we can get a rush upfront, that significantly helps the back seven. If we can cover in the back seven, if we can get home up front, it all comes hand in hand. Having that preparation, knowing what they like, what our answers are and creating that chaos.

We certainly do believe we can create chaos and we just got to get there. If ever yone is playing disciplined football, I think we can do that.”

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Thomas: Seven Irish players who need to step up their game in Vegas after the bye week

By AIDAN THOM AS Spor ts Editor

After a sluggish start, the Notre Dame football team has begun to turn things around. A gritt y, if closer than desired, w in over Cal pushed the Irish into the w in column.

A week later, head coach Marcus Freeman and Co. went on the road as underdogs and decimated UNC. Now, after a week off, the boys in the blue and gold, or should we say white and gold, head to Vegas.

The game feels like a make-or-break moment in this season.

If the Irish w in and move to 3-2, there’s ever y reason to believe they’ll be back in the Top 25.

Additionally, they have a couple of almost guaranteed w ins approaching on the schedule.

A real chance at being 6-2 and in the top 15 heading into the Clemson matchup emerges. From there, ending in the 8-10 w in range feels almost certain, and w ith a solid bowl game.

With a loss? Well, Notre Dame would fall to 2-3.

With Clemson, USC and a thus-far unbeaten Sy racuse squad

remaining on the schedule, topping s even w ins feels even more unlikely.

So no doubt the Irish are at a critical point in their season. W hile it’s not at the half way point just yet, here’s a look at five Irish players (plus two honorable mention) who need to step it up as the Irish tr y to continue their renaissance.

upgrade in that department.

However, what remains to be seen is how he can impact the passing game.

Raridon is a matchup nightmare, particularly when opposing defenses are also concerned w ith guarding junior A ll-American tight end Michael Mayer. Deploy ing both of those guys on pass routes could be a sight to see.

Honorable Mention: freshman wide receiver Tobias Merriweather and tight end Eli Raridon

5. Senior corner back Cam Hart

The honorable mentions go to the true freshmen due to a lack of opportunit y.

Merriweather has barely seen the field, although comments from the coaching staff seem to imply he’s tracking towards an increased snap count. He’s a tall and speedy w ide receiver that could give the Irish a much-needed boost in the passing game.

Raridon was just elevated into a bigger role last week w ith the season-ending injur y to junior Kev in Bauman. The 6’7 tight end emerged in Week 1 as an absolute force in the run-blocking game.

It’s not too controversial to say he was an immediate

Cam Hart took a big step for ward against UNC, and he’s been ser v iceable throughout the year.

But starting across a true freshman, Hart needs to lockdow n and be less prone to the big plays that have v ictimized him through four weeks. He hasn’t necessarily been bad, but a step up from Hart could elevate this secondar y to a new level.

4. Sophomore wide receiver Jayden Thomas Jayden Thomas received a lot of hy pe this season, and he feels like a major breakout candidate.

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Former Croatian president visits ND Past president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic speaks about Ukraine, geopolitics and peace in Europe

By ISA SHEIKH Associate News Editor

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, who ser ved as president of Croatia from 2015 to 2020, visited Notre Dame this week to speak to the Nanovic Forum on Tuesday evening.

Grabar-Kitarovic, the youngest president of Croatia as well as the first woman to be elected to the office, was a career diplomat prior to her election and gave an address titled “War in Ukraine, Peace in Europe?

Geopolitics, Economics and Security after Russia’s Invasion.” She spoke to The Obser ver for an hour-long inter view on Wednesday

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Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, former president of the Republic of Croatia, gives the 2022 Nanovic Forum Lecture “War in Ukraine, Peace in Europe? Geopolitics, Economics, and Security after Russia’s Invasion.”

Tri-campus leaders discuss accountability

By GENEVIEVE COLEMAN Assistant Managing Editor

Editor’s note: This story includes mentions of sexual assault. A list of sexual assault reporting options and on-campus resources can be found on the Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross websites.

Last Tuesday, a group of students protested on God Quad in the wake of a post from a student on social media claiming the University mishandled their Title IX case regarding an alleged instance of sexual assault.

Following the initial post, at least four more students at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s posted their stories of alleged sexual assault on their personal social media accounts. The posts have sparked discussion, both online and offline, of how tri-campus students and administration can best handle this topic.

“We were here because … a student posted a very concerning post on Instagram detailing their experience with SA, going through the Title IX office and not being supported or represented the way that

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they had hoped to,” fifth-year Tony Perez said of the protest.

The protest had a small turnout, Perez acknowledged, but he said the support was still present.

“There are a lot more people who stand with us physically and metaphorically, that are more than happy to believe survivors and are more than happy to make sure that justice is spelled out,” he said.

In response to the social media posts, University spokesperson Dennis Brown stated Notre Dame cannot discuss specific cases of student discipline.

“In compliance with federal privacy laws, we cannot and do not discuss specific student disciplinary cases, nor do we confirm whether a specific matter is being or has been investigated,” Brown said.

He continued by discussing Notre Dame’s efforts to combat sexual violence.

“Sexual assault and other forms of sexual violence can occur anywhere, and Notre Dame is not exempt from that reality,” Brown see TRI-CAMPUS PAGE 3

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morning, discussing her visit to the University, career highlights and a path for ward for Europe and the globe.

The former president’s visit to Notre Dame was eventful, participating in three classes, attending working meals with faculty and other members of the Notre Dame community and sitting next to University president Fr. John Jenkins for the Notre Dame Forum’s keynote event, a dramatic reading of an ancient Greek tragedy, Aeschylus’ “The Suppliants,” in Notre Dame Stadium.

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Students watch Hurricane Ian destroy homes

By RYAN PETERS News Editor

About one year ago, Paris Thompson’s family bought a 100-foot houseboat. The boat, which they rented out as an Airbnb on Fort Myers Beach in Florida, was found one and a half miles inland atop other homes following Hurricane Ian last week.

“It was completely destroyed,” Thompson, a

sophomore from Fort Myers on the women’s volleyball team, said.

Nine days after the hurricane struck Florida, the death toll has risen to 101, according to the Associated Press. The Category 4 storm is the second-deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland U.S. this century.

As the storm barreled towards the U.S., Notre Dame students from southwest

Florida were forced to watch as their families braced for cover.

“I just felt kind of helpless. My whole family is back home, there’s nothing I can do, and I felt kind of guilty that I’m away, but I didn’t do anything wrong,” freshman Ethan Gable from Naples said.

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Hurricane Ian wreaked havoc on the southeastern coastline of the United States, causing mass destruction of homes and property. A boat washed inland in Fort Myers, Florida, as a result of the storm.

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stated. “The University works tirelessly to combat sexual violence through numerous initiatives that seek to educate our students, heighten their awareness and support victims and survivors. Rape and sexual assault are unacceptable and are not tolerated in the Notre Dame community.”

Saint Mary’s vice president for student enrollment and engagement Lori Johnson also commented on the resources the College has created.

“We are aware of our student’s posts on social media and understand the heartfelt reaction it has generated on campus,” Johnson said. “However, we cannot comment on the specifics of our student or her story. The College has worked diligently to put resources in place to support our students.

These resources and initiatives are available to all students through the Office of Student Involvement & Advocacy and BAVO (Belles Against Violence [Office]).”

Student leaders respond to multiple claims of sexual violence Earlier this week, Saint Mary’s Student Government Association (SGA) posted a statement on Instagram to show their “love, support and advocacy for anyone who has endured hardships pertaining to sexual assault and sexual violence.”

The post also acknowledged that SGA leaders were in communication with the Saint Mary’s administration about these issues, though it would be “​​a process that takes time.”

SGA vice president Josie Haas said she takes pride in the strength of tri-campus community members. “[SGA president] Angela [Camacho Martinez] and I wanted to make sure that our Belles felt supported by our SGA, wanted them to feel heard and wanted to bring as much attention to their strength as possible because their stories are worth being heard and we need others to see the gravity of this issue in our tri-campus community,” Haas said.

Notre Dame student government also posted a guide to supporting survivors on their Instagram page this week.

Notre Dame’s student body president Patrick Lee said the student government’s stance is centered on survivor support, encouraging students to be active bystanders and bringing student concerns to the Office of Institutional Equity.

“Since everything has been going on, student support has always been on the front of our minds,” he said.

Belles Supporting Belles (BSB) president Annie Maher discussed her anger about reading how survivors claimed a lack of support from tri-campus institutions.

“When I first read some of the survivors’ stories, I was angered by the lack of support these students felt,” Maher said. “Not only did these students go through an extremely traumatic experience that no person should ever have to

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go through, but then they received little to no support after that experience from institutions that are supposed to have their backs.”

Maher also reflected on what she perceives to be a lack of change in how the tri-campus handles sexual assault cases.

“It pained me to see another group of students have to share their story to try to ignite some action in the tri-campus community,” she said. “Talk to pretty much any student on all three of the campuses and you will understand that this is an issue.”

Like Mata, Maher is organizing specific events but encouraged students to use the student concern form on the BSB website to discuss sexual violence on campus.

“Belles Supporting Belles is working towards creating an event to address these stories. Our main priority right now is to make sure that students’ voices are heard,” Maher said. “Right now, we have created a student concern form that is in our Instagram bio that students can fill out regarding their concerns about sexual violence and safety on campus.”

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Camacho Martinez noted that SGA’s social concerns committee has been working on the annual Support a Belle, Love a Belle (SBLB) week and adapted their plans to highlight campus resources.

“There have been plans on adjusting a few days of SBLB to center more on resources made available to campus, like Callisto,” Camacho Martinez said. “I think this is a valuable resource that assists in the encounter of sexual assault and/or sexual violence faced by not just SMC students but also Notre Dame and Holy Cross students.”

Haas also emphasized SBLB is a time where students in the community can support each other.

“Overall, the purpose of this week is to show the support and love we have for one another as Belles,” she said. “By being an uplifting community, we give each other strength and inspire ourselves to be the amazing Belles I know we are despite negative circumstances. We can help each other overcome whatever is placed in our pathway.”

Lee said student government has been addressing the situation for the past two weeks. He outlined plans for a survivor mass at the Basilica, a speak out event supporting survivors, GreenDot training for students and a survey gathering information to evaluate the reporting process for harassment and discrimination on campus.

Student Government is also cosponsoring the panel “Walking Hand in Hand: Navigating the sexual assault support system on campus,” with the Gender Relations Center, director of gender relations Lane Obringer said.

Saint Mary’s Feminists United president Madison Mata said the organization will continue to serve as a place for students to feel safe and become more educated about relevant issues.

“I think for Feminists United as a whole, it’s gonna be being able to open up the floor to people who want to share their stories — whether it’s sexual violence or assault or anything like that,” she said. “In general, just being able to be a safe space for them, sharing resources, staying educated and making sure that like-minded people are in the club for the right reasons.”

In addition, Feminists United is inviting local female politicians to speak to Saint Mary’s students on Saturday about their experiences in politics and the importance of voting.

Camacho Martinez referred back to SGA’s initial communication with College administrators and called on them to keep creating ways to support Saint Mary’s students.

“For any SMC administrators who will read this story, I know we are already working through this process with you, but let’s see what more we can do to be supportive of our SMC students, inspire other tricampus administrators to be supportive of their respective students and hopefully evoke change in the system that fails to believe our survivors,” she said.

Lee said the issue of handling sexual violence better will require the whole Notre Dame community, both students and administration, working together.

“If Notre Dame really is going to be this really amazing community that we all want it to be, we all know it can be, as inclusive as possible, as supportive as possible, then everybody needs to take accountability for the safety of others,” Lee said.

It is a large task, but one Lee believes the community can do.

“It’s my belief that we absolutely can. I’ve seen it a number of times,” Lee said. “From my point of view, three plus years of being a student leader here, it really does start with us. We can all be responsible for our own actions.”

Maher also called for administrator accountability, as well as implementing more comprehensive action steps during an ongoing investigation.

“I am tired, as I am sure many students are, of basic apologies from administrators. Students deserve positive action from the administration,” Maher said.

“Comprehensive action plans for when a student reports a sexual assault, immediate probation/ academic suspension when a perpetrator is identified, and other solutions are vital in maintaining a safe campus while the investigation is underway.”

She also claimed that based on the recent narratives of survivors, administrations are not believing their stories.

“The stories we heard last week are just a few of many survivors who have endured violent acts on our campuses,” she said. “Our institutions need to believe survivors, and based on the stories that were shared last week, that isn’t happening.”

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Senate amends constitution

By KATIE MUCHNICK News Writer

The Notre Dame student senate convened Wednesday night in DeBartolo Ha ll to discuss upcoming campus events and pass an amendment to t he constitution.

Student body v ice president Sof ie Stitt began t he meeting w it h executive announcements, where she reminded senators t hat t hey are required to get GreeNDot certif ied. Stitt a lso asked a ll senators in men’s dorms to f ill out a sur vey for t he department of hea lt h and wellbeing to understand t he availabilit y of period products in unisex bat hrooms in men’s dorms.

Sophomore Jessica Vicker y, t he senator from Ryan Ha ll, spoke about involv ing f irstyears in student senate.

She brought a long t wo f irst-years to shadow her and learn how to act as a prox y for f uture senate meetings.

A f ter approv ing t he minutes, Stitt moved to genera l orders. Jared Schlachet, t he student union parliamentarian, introduced a memo from t he Committee on t he Constitution. A f ter rev iew ing a proposed amendment to A rticle X I V of t he constitution — which dea ls w it h petitions, initiatives and referendums — t he committee recommended t hat t he senate split t he amendment into a div ided order.

The senate passed t he f irst part of t he amendment order, SO 2223-10a.

The order changes t he signature requirements for undergraduate students signing petitions and initiatives. Prev iously, t he constitution mandated t hat students include t heir name and loca l address, but t he amendment stipulates t hat students include t heir name and email address.

Schlachet said loca l address was a lready interpreted to mean email address, but t his forma lizes t hat practice.

A f ter a brief discussion on t he parliamentar y process, t he amendment passed unanimously.

The senators t hen discussed t heir plans for upcoming resolutions.

Sophomore Keough Ha ll senator Derick Williams updated t he group on his work to give band

members and ROTC students access to early registration.

Williams met w it h Chuck Hurley, t he Universit y registrar, but he said most of t he decision ma k ing power lies w it h t he provost’s of f ice.

“I t hink hav ing a litt le bit more concrete details could help us put toget her a resolution [and] help us get a better footing if we were to go in and tr y to present a plan to t he provost and or whoever else could ma ke t he f ina l decision on t hat,” Williams said.

Senior Megan Mikuen t hen updated t he senate on her research into “d e s i g n -y o u r- o w n -m a jor” programs at ot her universities, w it h t he ultimate goa l of passing and w riting a resolution to implement a similar program at Notre Dame. Mikuen found t hat most self-designed majors are hosted in t he equiva lent of t he College of A rts and Letters at ot her universities, but t hat more research isnecessar y to understand what universit y and college course requirements are applicable.

Fina lly, students involved in various organizations across campus previewed upcoming campus events.

Senior Connor Patrick, t he president of t he Club Coordination Council, asked senators to stop by t he ND Cultura l Showcase on October 14. The event w ill ta ke place from 8 :3011 p.m. on Librar y Law n and w ill showcase many of t he cultura l and performing arts groups on campus.

Junior class council president Paul Stoller prev iewed t he junior class game watch Saturday. Chicken nuggets, w ings and an Elv ist hemed ha lf time show w ill be prov ided.

Fina lly, sophomore class council president Patrick Smart asked sophomores and ot her interested students to stop by Duncan Student Center and sign t hank you cards for t he dorm housekeepers.

Sophomore class council w ill have a table set up from 12 to 4 p.m. and w ill prov ide free Insomnia cook ies.

A f ter closing announcements, t he meeting was adjourned.

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her expertise on European diplomacy, and as a former head of state, on the current situation in Ukraine in her lecture on Tuesday evening. Speaking to a packed auditorium in the Hesburgh Center, she discussed the causes of the conf lict and Putin’s erratic behavior. She shared her takeaways from the crisis, namely that in order to move for ward, those standing against Putin must “maintain our unity of purpose” and “stand united,” as well as develop a standard of responding to hostile aggression on the world stage and address strategic v ulnerabilities and challenges.

Before answering questions, Grabar-Kitarovic closed w ith a ref lection on freedom.

“The fact that we have peace in our countries and stability does not mean absence of threat. It means that there are men and women working out there, so hard, to secure our peace, security and stability and peace can never be taken for granted,” she said.

Grabar-Kitarovic said that in Croatia, there is an annual theatre festival called the Dubrovnik Summer Games.

The festival opened w ith the “Ode to Freedom” by the inf luential Croatian poet Ivan Gundulic.

“To quote part of that ode, in my free translation… ‘all the silver, all the gold, all the human lives and the cost of all of that does not equal the pure beauty of freedom and of peace,’” she said.

Grabar-Kitarovic told The Obser ver that her visit to campus had been “wonderful,” and that she was particularly delighted to see the works of Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, who spent time at Notre Dame.

Grabar-Kitarovic was born the daughter of farmers in rural Croatia, then a part of the former Yugoslavia.

She described the burdens of grow ing up under communism and a centralized government in Belgrade, the Yugoslav capital city in Serbia.

“It was ver y difficult because there were a lot of ta xes and a lot of measures were the government and tr ying to limit [private business].

In the case of my family, for instance, the land that we could ow n, the number of people who could work w ith us. My parents had to work

hard. They did not have an opportunity. They only finished elementar y school, both of them because they had to start working ver y early,” Grabar-Kitarovic said.

“W hat bothered me in the former Yugoslavia was that lack of accountability. It was always the same old group of people, the so-called political elites, who were professional politicians, they lived off politics and off the backs of all the rest of us,” she added.

Grabar-Kitarovic recalled a scheme when the Yugoslav government sold bonds to develop roads, many of which had not been developed since the AustroHungarian Empire.

“My family paid a lot of money for those bonds, not thinking of interests because we were not free market minded at the time. We just wanted for those roads to be built for the infrastructure to be built,” she said.

“So we raise a lot of money and of course, it’s centralized. It all goes to Belgrade.

And whatever we earn will go to Belgrade and then Belgrade would redistribute the money.”

The bonds were never paid out and the roads were never built, Grabar-Kitarovic said.

The centralized redistribution in Yugoslavia was uneven and ineffective, she continued.

“Projects that were built under communism were useless, such as an aluminum factor y in a coastal town in Croatia, where you have no resources like baux ite to begin w ith. And of course, it failed,” Grabar-Kitarovic said.

She was able to study as an exchange student in high school, graduating from high school in Los A lamos, New Mex ico. Returning to study at the University of Zagreb, Grabar-Kitarovic joined the movement for Croatian independence and w itnessed the Croatian War of Independence.

Studying in the United States was “an incredibly important experience where I learned a lot about individual rights and freedoms,” she said. Returning to Croatia, “I was so unhappy with the whole setup of life, with ever y thing that was going on.

[There was a] total lack of responsibility, hiding behind collectivism.”

As the war for independence was waged, GrabarKitarovic said that Croatia

under went a brutal assault.

“The atrocities committed were really the most brutal. It wasn’t just guns that were used, it was also knives and things that normally are not used as weapons.

The scorched-earth strateg y used to perform ethnic cleansing to drive out all the non-Serb population not in the occupied areas. Mass rape and sexual offenses actually started in Croatia, committed even on a greater scale later in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We were losing ground in the beginning,” she recalled.

And yet, there were moments of comfort in solidarity.

“We were sticking together and I remember the times of feeling united with the people. If you were stuck somewhere during an air raid, in somebody’s basement, they would clothe you, they would feed you for as long as it went on. There was practically no crime in Croatia,” Grabar-Kitarovic said.

Nonetheless, from Zagreb, the war was palpable.

“As you lie down in your bed, you can hear detonations from 24 kilometers away, where the front lines are. Some 24 kilometers, imagine. [That’s] nothing.

But you know, there were people there, day and night, defending Croatia.

You hear those detonations and you’re so grateful for them.

And you’re so grateful for the warm beds that you can sleep in because most people in parts of Croatia that were under for weeks and months, they would spend those weeks and months in their cellars sleeping on the f loor,” Grabar-Kitarovic said.

She describes the war as a formative experience in her personal and political development.

“It taught me humility, to appreciate things in life that really matter, more empathy, being able to understand conf licts in the world today perhaps a little bit better. Because you have to put yourself in the shoes of ever yone, of those who are attacking you, of those under attack. As I said, there is no one [size] fits all experience.

There is no blueprint for ending the war, or for reconciliation. But there are things that you will learn through that reconciliation process.

W hen I was sitting listening to the news from [the besieged city of ] Vukovar, I thought that there was no

chance that we would anytime soon, maybe ever live together with Serbs again.

But then you know, you start working on reconciliation,” Grabar-Kitarovic said.

Those experiences shaped her through her diplomatic career and presidency, she added.

Grabar-Kitarovic ser ved in a number of posts, including minister of foreign affairs, ambassador to the United States, as well as assistant secretar y general of NATO. She said that internationally, she sees a role for Croatia in leadership.

“I’ve always said that when we look at [European Union headquarters] Brussels, we are Brussels. We shouldn’t be just following, we should be actively contributing to common European policies and so much more, in Brussels, in NATO,” she said.

As a career diplomat, Grabar-Kitarovic says she was hesitant to seek the presidency. “I so much more prefer international work than domestic politics,” she said.

Looking at Croatia, however, she says that it faces large structural issues.

“Domestically, by far the biggest problem is the demographic trends and structure. Our population is aging. The ratio between actively employed and those who are not in the labor market is becoming smaller and smaller. It’s almost one to one now. So that was one of the aspects in which I was actively engaged in,” she said.

In her lecture on Tuesday evening, Grabar-Kitarovic discussed V ladimir Putin’s recent actions and motivations.

“Having known him for a number of years… he would rather die than to admit defeat, he even has an idea that there is divine power on his side,” she told the audience.

Grabar-Kitarovic met Putin several times in her career, including a lengthy summit in 2017 and a short courtesy visit during the World Cup. “I was traveling with other fans. I was buying my own tickets and f lying on charter f lights,” she said.

In her lecture, she pointed out how Western leaders had reacted to Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, calling the response “meek.”

Grabar-Kitarovic reiterated that western leaders did not have enough of a desire to hold Putin and

Russia accountable for such violations.

“W hen Russia annexed Crimea, the communique that came out of NATO was really watered down by a number of players. Those were driven primarily by economic interest of having cheap gas, rather than strategic interests of looking into the future and thinking about geopolitics,” she said, singling out German dependence on Russian gas as opposed to other European nations that diversified their sources of fuel.

As someone who has held up the importance of international bodies and alliances, Grabar-Kitarovic says she is concerned by the rising tide of populist Euroscepticism across Europe.

“The closing-in of societies, the growing mistrust towards institutions, especially towards Brussels.

Trust is the basis of human relationships and trust is the basis of democracy.

Because in a democratic system, you put trust into the people whom you elect to be able, competent and ethical enough to lead you to where you want to go,” she said.

“I think there was a lack of touch with reality, lack of actual human touch with people and lack of emotion in politics. And people are asking for more authentic leadership. So there is a tendency ever y where to vote the socalled third options, which in some cases are nationalist or populists because they appear.”

Grabar-Kitarovic ended the inter view with a diagnosis of larger sociological issues plaguing and underlying the geopolitical tensions she had covered throughout her visit on campus.

“Not just the future of our institutions, but the future of relationships, the bond defined in democratic societies and of course, around the world you see more and more of these ideological rifts and divides; the world has become a highly contested place. And you see fighting not just for resources, supply chains, but you also see battles for values, a value system, ideologies, etc. And we’re getting increasingly divided. The world economy has been decoupling and it looks like pulling apart and tearing at the seams and between societies, governments and regions,” she said.

Contact Isa Sheikh at isheikh@nd.edu

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Climatologist calls for carbon fees, nuclear

By ISA SHEIKH Assosciate News Editor

Ja mes Ha nsen, a renow ned climate cha nge schola r a nd env ironmenta l act iv ist, spoke Thursday evening at India na Universit y Sout h Bend (IUSB) for t he a nnua l Bender Lecture, urg ing young people to ta ke act ion to combat climate cha nge.

Henr y Scott, cha ir of IUSB’s physics a nd ast ronomy depa r t ment, int roduced Ha nsen, t he 2022 Bender s c hol a r-i n-r e s ide nc e .

Scott recounted Ha nsen’s educat ion a nd ca reer, pa r t icu la rly his decadeslong work leading t he NASA Godda rd Inst itute for Space Studies.

“I suspect ever yone here k nows t hat Dr. Ha nsen is often referred to as t he ‘fat her of g loba l wa rming.’ I hope it is a lso k now n t hat, t hat is deser ved for ra ising awa reness a nd t hat no one is here ex pect ing a n apolog y,” Scott joked.

Scott discussed Ha nsen’s pivot f rom study ing Venus a nd helping to send a satellite to photog raph t he veiled pla net.

“As you may k now, Venus is incredible a nd f ra n kly, terrif y ing ly hot. As Dr. Ha nsen worked to improve our understa nding of why t his is so, he shif ted his attent ion to Ea r t h a nd how its at mosphere may cha nge over t ime due to huma n inf luences,” Scott sa id. “Over 40 yea rs ago, he was t he lead aut hor on a paper which concluded t hat rising ca rbon diox ide levels in Ea r t h’s

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not contact her family for days after the hurricane made landfall.

“I called my parents 100 times from the day it hit to like Saturday and couldn’t get a hold of them. So I was seeing on the news bodies [that] are found and I’m freaking out because I’m like, ‘I haven’t been able to talk to my family,’” she said.

All of Thompson’s family members stayed safe during the storm, and her mother and father’s houses avoided serious damage. Her mother’s house had about eight feet of standing water in the garage but avoided significant f looding inside the rest of the house, she said. Her parents parked their cars by the interstate farther inland to avoid the brunt of the storm surge.

Alexandra Chlumsky, a senior pole vaulter on the track and field team from

at mosphere wou ld lead to g reater wa rming t hat had been prev iously predicted.

A nd t hat was just one of his nea rly 170 published journa l a r t icles over his ca reer.”

Ha nsen bega n his lecture by spea k ing to his la rger a ims.

“I’m going to sk ip what I w rote for notes here because, you k now, we need to get young people to understa nd t hat t hey ca n actua lly inf luence t he f uture, a nd t hey need to do t hat. A nd it’s possible,” Ha nsen sa id.

In a w ide-ra ng ing lecture discussing t he legacies of va rious presidents as well as his upbring ing a nd career, Ha nsen la rgely wa rned about t he cha llenges of relia nce on fossil f uels.

He a lso discussed his process a nd phi losophy as a scient ist.

“To be successf u l, you must use a ll t he data. Be ver y skept ica l of your interpretat ion a nd honest ly reassess f rom scratch when new data becomes ava ilable.

A nd your preference, your ideolog y, your polit ics must not a f fect your assessment.

This last point is dif f icu lt.

For most people, even scient ists,” Ha nsen sa id.

Going t hrough t he risks of ocea n wa rming, rising sea levels, t he t hreat of species being ex terminated a nd belts of t he pla net becoming un livable, Ha nsen sa id he was cog ni za nt of t he va lue of fossil f uels.

“Now to be posit ive, plent if u l energ y has enormous benef its. Fossil f uels a re actua lly ma r velous, a nd

t hey have been a boon to huma nit y. The Indust ria l Revolut ion ra ised liv ing sta nda rds in much of t he world. The energ y source init ia lly was coa l a nd in t he 20t h centur y, oil a nd gas joined t he pa r t y, a nd t heir condensed energ y is compa rable to t hat of coa l a nd it’s more convenient. One ga llon of gasoline conta ins t he work equiva lent of 400 hours labor by a hea lt hy adu lt. So fossil f uels ra ise liv ing sta nda rds in ha lf of t he world a nd t he ot her ha lf wa nts to follow t hat pat h, a nd t hey have t he right to ra ise t heir liv ing sta nda rds,” Ha nsen sa id. “So fossil f uels a re wonder f u l, but t hey a lso cause a problem. So what shou ld we do? ” Ha nsen pointed to t he lack of prog ress on mit igating g reen house gas emissions, a rg uing t hat t he qua nt itat ive reduct ion by count ries like t he U.S. was simply a f unct ion of mov ing product ion abroad to count ries like India a nd China.

Those emissions now appea r on ot her nat ion’s ta llies, he says.

“The CO2 emissions a re not counted in t he United States tota l; t hey’re counted as pa r t of China a nd ot her count ries. In t he f uture, emerg ing economies w ill be t he source of most emissions. So we shou ld work w it h China, India, Indonesia, Viet na m a nd t he ot her economies t hat a re g row ing rapid ly. In fact, in t he West, we have a n obligat ion to do t hat because we use more t ha n our fa ir sha re

of t he ca rbon budget,” he sa id.

Ult imately, Ha nsen’s pla n comes dow n to t wo la rge policy reforms. First, he says it is imperat ive to include t he cost to societ y in t he price of fossi l f uel, a pla n he ca l ls t he ca rbon fee a nd div idend, prev iously billed as t he ca rbon ta x a nd div idend.

“The pract ica l way to do t hat is to col lect a fee f rom t he fossi l f uel compa nies at t he sources, which a re a sma ll number: t he domest ic mines a nd t he por ts of ent r y. A nd to ma ke it work, t hat money shou ld be dist ributed to t he public so t hat t hey wou ld have t he mea ns to dea l w it h t he increased prices of fossi l f uels,” he sa id.

“So if t he United States a nd China wou ld ag ree on a rising ca rbon fee t he climate problem you wou ld be well on its way to solut ion,” Ha nsen added.

Second, Ha nsen out lined t he need for nuclea r power a rg uing for its promot ion a nd development, as wel l as for related technolog ies.

“Histor y shows t hat once a good desig n for a nuclea r power pla nt is approved, nuclea r power prov ides t he fastest way to deca rboni ze because of t he massive a mount of energ y t hat’s prov ided by a single power pla nt. De facto cooperat ion bet ween China a nd t he U.S. drove dow n t he cost of sola r pa nels, w ind a nd w ind energ y. We ca n do t he sa me for nuclea r power,” he sa id.

Ha nsen ex tensively

addressed fea rs about nuclea r power, referring to stat ist ics about t he minima l ha rm of nuclea r energ y, pa r t icu la rly in compa rison to current met hods of energ y product ion.

“Ten t housa nd people a day a re dy ing f rom indoor a ir pol lut ion. Ma ny of t he deat hs a re simi la r to t hose f rom smok ing, ver y unpleasa nt to t he v ict im a nd his fa mi ly. Ten t housa nd people in one day is more t ha n k i l led by nuclea r power in 50 yea rs,” he sa id.

Ha nsen a lso discussed his f r ust rat ions w it h t he current polit ica l system, especia l ly w it h ca mpa ig n cont ribut ions — which he dubbed “lega li zed briber y.”

He promoted t he idea of a t hird pa r t y emerg ing, a nd of ra n ked choice vot ing. He a lso spoke to t he polit ica l power of col lege students a nd ot her yout h.

“They have t remendous polit ica l power, even high schoolers,” Ha nsen sa id.

Ha nsen closed his rema rks w it h a plea for act ion f rom yout h, before ta k ing quest ions f rom audience members.

“It’s going to be dependent on young people to understa nd t he situat ion.

You ca nnot simply say, ‘Climate cha nge is importa nt to us, please f i x it,’ because t hen t hey come up w it h t he f i x t hat t he specia l interests a re w i l ling to do.

A nd t hat’s not going to do,” he sa id.

Fort Myers, said she did not anticipate the storm to be that devastating. Having grown up in Florida with the perennial threat of hurricanes, Chlumsky thought her family was prepared.

However, as Ian approached last Wednesday, the magnitude of the storm quickly began to set in. She said she left her class when her mother informed her of the expected storm surge — before they lost cell phone service.

“It was emotional for me because this was so much worse than anyone anticipated,” Chlumsky said. “In the moments leading up to it, my dad, he told me that this is as scared as he’s probably ever been in his life.”

The Chlumskys suffered a better fate than most of the houses in their neighborhood. The main portion of their home did not seriously f lood, but the garage f looded, leaving the family’s cars unusable. They also owned a condo on Fort Myers Beach that was entirely

destroyed.

“I don’t even think it exists anymore,” she said.

Chlumsky said the hurricane devastated the homes of her friends on Sanibel Island and Fort Myers Beach.

“Their houses are completely destroyed,” she said.

The causeway connecting the island to the mainland collapsed as a result of the storm.

Gable’s family was staying in a rental house across the street because his primary home is under renovation. The hurricane ruined the rental home, leaving about five feet of standing water inside, he said. The storm left a few inches of standing water throughout his primary residence but destroyed the f loors that were under renovation. As a result, his family is expecting to stay in a condo for about the next nine months, Gable said.

Even with his mother from Louisiana and his father from Naples, Gable said his family had never lived through such

a devastating storm.

“They’ve been through plenty of storms. They’ve lived [in Naples] for like 20 years. They did say this was the worst one they’ve seen,” he said.

In the midst of the tragedy left in the wake of Hurricane Ian, Thompson said the devastation has resulted in unity and empathy both at home and on campus.

“My professors were reaching out to me, my old dorm rectors were reaching out to me, so I think this sense of a family away from family was huge to me there,” she said.

“W ho do I fall back on when I can’t get a hold of who I need most? And so I think that was huge for me.”

W hile her parents’ homes were not rendered uninhabitable by the storm, many in their neighborhoods were, Thompson said. Now, her family has turned its attention to trying to help those who lost everything.

“The biggest thing we’ve been saying as a family is just how lucky we were to

get out of this alive and with very little damage compared to a lot of people,” she said.

Thompson has been working with the University to organize a supply drive for schools and families in southwest Florida. The drive would send down items ranging from lightly used athletic gear to clothes and non-perishable foods.

As southwest Florida begins its recovery effort, Chlumsky said the national attention cast on her hometown strikes her every day.

“There’s so many people in Fort Myers, it’s a big city.

The entire Fort Myers-Naples area encompasses close to a million people,” she said.

“But when you start seeing your town all over national news, and you see these TikToks that are going viral, like it just makes it so much more real, in a way.”

Contact Isa Sheikh at isheikh@nd.edu

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Why I ‘worship’ Taylor Swift

Peter Breens News Writer

Isabella Kause Simple Beauty

I remember my first day of first grade. I was at a new school and my relationships w ith the other eight kids in my homeroom were all about the same. A ll eight had already gone to either Montessori or kindergarten together. I was the new kid.

After a light morning of introductor y material, my homeroom teacher decided to take the nine of us dow n early to lunch. In the transition from classroom to cafeteria, I somehow ended up in the back of the lunch line.

At the moment, this was no issue; bus rides on the way to my parochial preschool/kindergarten had taught me that it was actually cool sometimes to be in the back. And it was not as if I wasn’t talking to the eighth kid in line. I’m prett y sure I put up a decent effort of some laid-back conversation.

As each one of us filtered through the lunch line, we were directed to the two circular tables that would ser ve as the eating grounds of my homeroom for the forthcoming year. The table closest to the ex it of the lunch line happened to have eight chairs. First graders also happen to follow the behav ior of the kid in front of them Therefore, when I made it to my homeroom’s section in the cafeteria, I was forced to sit alone, as the eight kids in front of me had gone and filled up the first table.

Now my homeroom teacher quick ly realized what had happened and prompted the rest of my class to recognize the injustice they had passively accomplished. Soon enough I had half the class around me at my table and life went on from there.

Did it feel good being made an exclusion case study? No. Was it personal? Probably not. Am I still harboring resentment? Possibly.

The memories of my school lunchtimes since then could fill volumes.

I remember passing the twelfth second of 12:12 p.m. on Dec. 12, 2012 in that same cafeteria I first enjoyed in the first grade.

I remember how my happiness each day in middle school came to depend on who I was seen eating lunch w ith in the cafeteria we shared w ith the high school I never wound up attending.

I remember the tall tales I told at the lunch tables my ow n freshman year of high school to attract the attention I desperately need.

I remember taking my to-go lunch out of the cafeteria during the second semester of my senior year of high school to eat behind the librar y book stacks while reading news articles about some disease that was tearing through China.

I remember reading the summer before college about the Zahm table in the north dining hall that would never materialize again due to Cov id.

I remember sneaking in Subway turkey sandw iches back from LaFun in my backpack to eat at my desk day after day my first-year.

Now a proud Baumer Buccaneer, I call South Dining Hall my home. I have even found a little bit of love w riting for The Obser ver’s news, sports, scene and social media departments in the basement of SDH. Still, Monday through Friday this semester, after I get out of class at either 1:40 p.m. or 1:45 p.m., I head to SDH to eat alone.

I’m usually wearing boots and tr y ing to get better about not wearing my headphones. If you want to eat w ith me, let me know.

You can contact Peter at pbreen2@nd.edu.

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W hen Taylor Swift first rose to fame, her f locks of fans, passionately known as Swifties, formed shortly thereafter. As a proud member of this group, I can attest to the personal benefit it brought to my own life.

After that first Taylor Swift concert I experienced years ago, my mom bought me a bracelet to commemorate the special evening. She never realized this at the time, but that two-dollar purchase would turn out to mean ever ything to me. Once I had that bracelet on, I subconsciously decided never to take it off. I wore it ever y day following that unforgettable night, even to middle school dances.

On one particular occasion — after having just completed my second day of an arduous high school math class — I went to lunch to decompress and ended up randomly sitting next to a girl with blonde hair and bright blue eyes, who also happened to be sporting the same rubber Taylor Swift bracelet as me. Ner vous to strike up a conversation but eager to make a friend, I turned to her and said, “Are you a Taylor Swift fan? ” as if the bracelet wrapped around her wrist did not already answer my question.

W hen she confirmed that my assumptions were true, I couldn’t have been happier, and I know that she felt the same way, too. From that point for ward, a friendship like no other blossomed, all thanks to Taylor Swift.

Because Taylor brought me my high school best friend, one person I have always “worshiped” is her — in a non-literal way, of course.

To a majority of people, hearing that I “worship” Taylor Swift might come across as extremely ironic, especially since she and I have never even met and she quite literally has no idea I exist. However, to me, she is ever ything. Taylor is the epitome of kindness and generosity. She gives to those around her without expecting anything in return, whether it comes in the form of paying for someone’s rent or visiting terminally sick children in the hospital. The environment that she creates for her fans is ver y welcoming. One thing that

people who have met her will surely tell you is that when you have a conversation with her, she makes you feel like you are her best friend and the only person in the room who truly matters.

W hile she is definitely someone I look up to on a personal level, I also respect the way she carries herself in the business world. Most recently, she had her album recordings stolen out from underneath her. The songs she had spent hours handwriting on her bedroom f loor were now gone. The songs that teenage girls like myself related to now belonged to someone else, a person who was hungr y to make money off her fame and success. Taylor knew that not only was this a devastation to herself, but also to her millions of loyal fans. So she took matters into her own hands, announcing that she would be rerecording each one of the albums that no longer belonged to her. I have a deep admiration not only for how she responded from an artistic standpoint, but also for the fact that she did not let power-hungr y record label walk all over her and steal her pride and joy. She set an example of right and wrongfor her fans — an example that will surely never be forgotten.

Even though Taylor does not know who I am, I still consider her one of the greatest people to “worship.” I aspire to be like her, someone who does not back down from a fight while also making sure to live their life acting in kindness and making the world a better place. I worship the humble way in which she carries herself when she interacts with her fans and how she is an example for those within the music industr y. No matter where my life takes me, I hope to act in the way Taylor does with such grace and compassion. And at the end of the day, I know I will never be too tired to turn on a Taylor Swift song.

Isabelle Kause is a sophomore at Notre Dame studying sociology and minoring in journalism. When she’s not busy, you can find her listening to country music or Taylor Swift or trying out new makeup/ skincare products. She can be reached at ikause@nd.edu.

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The forgotten women Jack Griffiths NeuroDivergence

In my columns, I’ve primarily focused on my own experiences to provide insight into neurodivergence. However, while I’ve enjoyed sharing my thoughts and personal history, there are obvious limitations to this approach.

Neurodivergence can manifest itself differently from person to person, and one’s other identity factors can also contribute to unique experiences. Hence, this week I’d like to focus on how neurodivergent women encounter their own specific challenges, challenges formed by the toxic intersection of misogyny and anti-neurodivergent discrimination.

While neurodivergent women have always existed, there are typically let down by exclusionary diagnostic criteria.

Autism diagnosis methods were “developed using the experiences and symptoms of cisgender white males” (Astra).

ADHD diagnostic methods are similar; the “early studies were based on the behaviors of white hyperactive boys” (ADDitude Editors). As a result, many of these women have never had their neurodivergence officially recognized, leaving them in an often-lonely position of uncertainty, even when they know that something sets them apart from broader neurotypical society. This underdiagnosis has had ripple effects, influencing popular conceptions of neurodivergent conditions, as most people will imagine a boy when considering the prototypical example of a child with something like autism or ADHD.More challenges arise when people dismiss potential signs of neurodivergence due to gender stereotypes. If a girl on the spectrum cries due to overstimulation, we say that she’s just being excessively dramatic and emotional. If a girl with ADHD struggles to complete certain tasks in the classroom, we simply shake our heads and call her scattered, and then we tell her that she’s simply not destined for academic success.

Instead of considering the possibility of neurodivergence, we crush girls and women under the weight of gendered tropes, producing feelings of stress and insecurity.

Because our institutions fail to recognize and dignify neurodivergence, young women are often implicitly forced to “mask,” or hide, their quirks and differences; even if something produces anxiety, they’re left with no option other than to internalize their worries and concerns. The editors of ADDitude Magazine note that “society’s long list of expectations for women — managing the self, the family and the home — requires consistent coordination of executive functions.” Although “women with ADHD are not well-wired for these demands,” they must conceal their personal concerns in their attempts to satisfy such standards (ADDitude Editors). Zhara Astra, an autistic woman who is currently a professor at Arizona State University, notes similar struggles, sharing that her peers never “suspected [she] was on the spectrum” partly because she “had become accus tomed to masking [her] quirks.”Challenges can persist in adult life, particularly in relationships. In a keynote address to the United Nations, Autistic Self Advocacy Network’s Julia Bascom discusses how autistic women, and neurodivergent women in general, experience higher levels of domestic and genderbased violence relative to neurotypical women. She explains that due to “lifetimes of behavioral conditioning and compliance training,” neurodivergent women are often “groom[ed] and victimize[d]” (Bascom). Even worse, when neurodivergent women try to speak about the violence they’ve endured, their different communicative tendencies and preferences might result in service providers failing to adequately assist them (Bascom).

Indeed, misogyny and ableism can coalesce to create enormous obstacles for neurodivergent women seeking recognition and respect. To remove them will require the efforts of many different societal actors, from academic communities to individual people.

First, the field of psychology must explore and address the under-diagnosis of neurodivergent women. In particular, diagnostic criteria that is currently based on data of white male boys should be updated to acknowledge the different ways conditions like autism and ADHD can manifest in women.

Diagnosis can be empowering because it serves as “an answer and an explanation…a way out of cycles of self-blame and guilt…a passport to an entire community…[and] a connection to the understanding, supports and services [women] need” (Bascom). This empowering tool can help reverse the negative impacts of the insecurity experienced by women uncertain about their diverging minds.

Second, families of possibly-neurodivergent girls should cultivate an environment of acceptance. Instead of viewing these girls’ anxieties as inconvenient drama, they should recognize them as genuine emotions that demand empathetic responses.

Finally, and most importantly, everyone — including neurotypical people and neurodivergent men — must actively surround themselves with the perspectives of neurodivergent women. In the process of writing this article, I consulted various articles written by women who have provided me with insights that have broadened my understanding of autism beyond the limitations of my own personal experience. I’m eager to delve further into these female experiences. I hope that in response to my article, you will join me, taking a few moments to look for neurodivergent female perspectives, whether they exist in social media posts, articles or creative works of art. Doing so can prevent us from, to use Julia Bascom’s words, “tell[ing] narrow stories about autism,” such as ones that suggest that “being autistic and being an adult or a woman are incompatible.”

Jack Griffiths is a senior at Notre Dame majoring in English with a supplementary major in global affairs.

His areas of interest include neurodivergence, migration and the intersections between faith and public policy.

When he’s not writing, you can find him singing with the Liturgical Choir, walking around the lakes or playing Super Smash Bros with folks in his dorm. He can be reached at jgriff22@nd.edu.

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A guide to sin and forgiveness in Judaism for non-Jews Blake Ziegler News with Zig

Since last week, I and other Jews across the world have begun celebrating the High Holy Days, a period of serious moral reflection for ourselves and our community. We assess our behavior in the last year in hopes of doing better this year by contemplating topics like forgiveness, redemption, freedom, joy, more through prayer and celebration. The most important period during this time is the High Holidays, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The former, celebrated last week, marked the Jewish New Year and the 10 Days of Repentance when we seek forgiveness from others for our wrongdoings in the last year. Only those who forego sin are inscribed in the Book of Life, the metaphorical concept meant to encourage Jews to become better people in the new year.

The repentance period culminates on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which concluded yesterday evening. Yom Kippur is the holiest day on the Jewish Calendar, where it is believed that heaven and earth are closest and we are on the level of angels temporarily. Like the angels, we don’t eat or drink on Yom Kippur because our sustenance comes from G-d. The day is spent on intense engagement with repentance, human frailty and humility before G-d. We participate in communal repentance for sins as the Book of Life is sealed.

My earliest memories of Yom Kippur included feelings of starvation and weariness from day-long worship services, not necessarily the holiday’s theological significance. Ironically, it wasn’t until I began Catholic school that I seriously reflected on my own religion’s conception of sin and forgiveness. I was never truly confronted with another approach to these issues until my friends had to explain why I shouldn’t go with them to confession. After 11 years in Catholic education, I wouldn’t claim to know everything about the University’s religious

tradition. But I do recognize the rich theological discussions and spiritual development I’ve had from learning about Catholicism and Christianity. Seeking to understand other faiths has greatly benefited my own faith life, strengthening my spirituality while developing an appreciation for other religions. Along this sentiment, I’d like to share some reflections on my tradition’s approach to sin, forgiveness and repentance in the hope that it’ll enrich readers’ spiritual journey, like engaging with Christianity did for me. At the very least, maybe my explanation will help you review the Hebrew Bible for Foundations of Theology.

Likely the most startling difference between Judaism and Christianity on this subject is that Jews don’t believe in original sin. Judaism does attest that Adam and Eve’s sin had cosmic ramifications and created a chasm between humanity and G-d, like Christianity. However, our traditions differ on the legacy of that sin. Jews believe that humans are born into the world free of sin, not in a state of sin like Saint Augustine wrote. There are some rabbis throughout history who believe that death was punishment for the first humans’ sin, but not that we’re born with sin.

Rather than be inherently sinful, humans have the same capacity to commit sins or mitzvot, the 613 commandments in Judaism. In Genesis 8:21, we find that the “devisings of man’s mind are evil from his youth.” From here, the rabbis teach of the yetzer, or inclinations. For Jews, life is a constant attempt to resist the evil inclinations and act on the good inclinations. But the evil inclination isn’t actually evil or some demonic influence; instead, it’s the allure of satisfying one’s pleasures, which if left unregulated, can lead one away from G-d. Judaism also teaches that the inclinations are born separately. A child begins life with the evil inclination and doesn’t develop the good inclination until age 13. At this point, sinful acts are countered with moral rebuke that teaches the child the difference between right and wrong. From then on, there’s

a battle between the inclinations for supremacy.

Judaism’s understanding of sin coincides with the image of a merciful, loving G-d. This concept is best captured by the central biblical verse of the Yom Kippur liturgy: “And the Lord said, ‘I pardon, as you have asked’” (Numbers 14:20).

G-d’s consistent forgiveness of the Israelites despite repetitive sin demonstrates that G-d’s essence is enveloped by mercy alongside His absolute Being and absolute freedom. This act of forgiveness is repeated throughout Yom Kippur through various prayers and exercises asking for G-d’s forgiveness.

One component is Kol Nidrei, asking G-d to absolve us of any vows made in His name. The reasoning is simple: How can an imperfect human ever expect to uphold a bargain with G-d?

The Viddui is another important prayer, as Jews gather in a community to seek forgiveness for communal sins. Although one may not have committed the sins listed, the members of the community are intertwined on that day, making everyone responsible for each other. Along with other prayers, Jews exit Yom Kippur forgiven of our sins and resolve to be less sinful in the coming year, drawing closer to G-d’s will.

Engaging other religions is an opportunity to enrich one’s understanding of other faiths while strengthening one’s own spirituality. As an elite university that still emphasizes faith, we have a rare chance to have these conversations in meaningful, informed ways for the benefit of all.

Blake Ziegler is a senior at Notre Dame studying political science, philosophy and constitutional studies. He enjoys writing about Judaism, the good life, pressing political issues and more. Outside of The Observer, Blake serves as president of the Jewish Club and a teaching assistant for God and the Good Life. He can be reached at @NewsWithZig on Twitter or bziegler@nd.edu.

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Observer Editorial: It’s been 50 years. When will our campuses be safe?

Editor’s note: This story includes mentions of sexual assault.

Fifty years ago in the fall of 1972, the University of Notre Dame enrolled its first class of women.

One hundred twenty-five freshmen and 240 transfers joined the once all-male student body and, in the half-centur y since, Notre Dame women have boldly contributed to the accomplishments and community of our tri-campus.

Fifty years, and our tri-campus still isn’t safe.

Last week, at least five students between Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s came forward on social media to share stories of alleged sexual assault.

Three said they reported their experiences to Notre Dame’s Title IX office. None believe they got justice.

As leaders of an organization comprised of students from Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross College, The Observer Editorial Board is troubled by these stories. It is our responsibility to serve this community — that means fostering a safe and compassionate workplace where sexual misconduct and violence are not tolerated. Our Letters to the Editor seek to give a voice to that community. We invite you to share your story if you are comfortable doing so. The Observer cannot publish ever y submission, but at the very least, we will listen.

In the last several months, Notre Dame has hosted several events to commemorate both the 50th anniversar y of Title IX and coeducation.

Bearing these milestones in mind, tri-campus administrators have not met our expectations for communicating about sexual violence — an issue that impacts all three student bodies. W hile we understand administrators can’t legally comment on ongoing disciplinary cases, students, especially survivors and allies, demand acknowledgment from campus leaders.

For example, in the wake of derogatory Yik Yak posts about Saint Mary’s students last fall, Saint Mar y’s president Katie Conboy released a statement stating she and her administration “[stood] in solidarity” with students. In addition, she advocated for more opportunities to build tri-campus relations. We commend Conboy for speaking up about how demeaning language hurt the College’s students. However, we encourage her, University President Fr. John Jenkins and Holy Cross President Marco Clark to address their respective students about how they will prevent incidents of sexual violence in our community.

The problem is not a lack of resources; Notre Dame, for example, has many SpeakUp is the University’s primar y online reporting tool, not only for incidents of sexual misconduct but all forms of bias, discrimination and harassment.

It is comprehensive and user-friendly, providing students with examples of harassment,

confidential and non-confidential resources, what to expect after filing a report and strategies for helping friends.

But in the 2022 Inclusive Campus Student Survey, the University revealed that only 15% of student respondents knew how to use SpeakUp to report harassment, and only 24% of respondents even knew the purpose of the resource. Further, the survey observed that of the nearly 4,400 incidents of adverse treatment reported by more than 2,000 respondents, only about 300  — a little less than 7% — were officially reported.

And then, only 7% of that 7% of reports were filed through SpeakUp, less than 0.5% of incidents experienced.

That is the problem. W hat good can these resources provide if students don’t know that they exist, much less how to use them? And in the face of the silence of leadership, do students even trust our institutions to listen when they “speak up? ” The survey also pointed to the intersectionality of this issue. According to the 2022 results, 31% of cisgender women said they at least somewhat agreed with the statement, “I have seriously considered leaving Notre Dame.” Thirty-three percent of students of color concurred. These statistics correspond to the students who came forward last week: Of the five, four are cisgender women, three are Black and one is non-binary.

These are the students our campus is failing — these are the students who are hurt.

In addition, three of the five students attend Saint Mary’s. Based on the relative size of the schools in the tri-campus community, we are alarmed by the disproportionate number of Saint Mary’s students who have been impacted by sexual violence.

In recent years, the College has improved the accessibility of student resources with the revival of the Belles Against Violence Office (BAVO) and the student-led group, Belles Supporting Belles.

The College also hosted its inaugural sexual violence symposium last spring, hosting a variety of speakers and events in a week that culminated with Take Back the Night.

W hile these initiatives are promising steps in the right direction, Saint Mary’s students deserve a more complete set of resources to address the ongoing issue of sexual assault. Currently, Saint Mary’s students can choose to report to several confidential sources, like the BAVO coordinator, or submit a non-confidential incident report to the Title IX office. However, in comparison to Notre Dame’s SpeakUp, the resources for reporting and healing after an incident of sexual violence seem less comprehensive. The Saint Mary’s Title IX website is merely a page in the Student Life section of the College’s website — rather than a larger, individual site like SpeakUp or Notre Dame Title IX. On the page, there is no link to Notre Dame or Holy Cross resources, despite students being required to submit their reports to the school where the incident took place.

Although the Saint Mary’s student population

is significantly smaller than Notre Dame’s, it is clear that the College needs to continue expanding avenues for survivors of sexual violence.

But, of course, our community includes three schools — Holy Cross students face similar problems to Saint Mar y’s students and in addition to their own unique obstacles. Similar to Saint Mar y’s, Holy Cross’ online resources are confined to a subsection of its Campus Life page, and other than a helpful diagram of reporting options linked at the bottom, they do not offer the depth of knowledge of SpeakUp or Notre Dame’s Title IX website. Holy Cross, in fact, links directly to Notre Dame’s Title IX site, but the Holy Cross resources Notre Dame offers can be broken and contain inaccuracies. One link to a PDF of Holy Cross resources returns a 404 error, while the options listed for reporting offenders from Holy Cross link to the Title IX office at the wrong Holy Cross— the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. This lack of clarity discourages Holy Cross students from reporting misconduct, particularly Gateways, as these students already struggle with navigating resources and reconciling their identities between two schools.

And as first-years, Gateways are also at greater risk in their first semester of college.

Clear communication is especially important when the ver y nature of Title IX is confusing and complex. Notre Dame’s Title IX website explains that Title IX is a law enacted as part of the Education Amendments of 1972 that bars discrimination on the basis of sex, including sexual violence. However, both the scope and minutiae of the law are unclear to many students, as Title IX is also commonly used in reference to athletics. Misunderstandings about what Title IX is — and uncertainty about the Title IX process — discourage students from coming forward and allow administrators to hide behind bureaucratic jargon. To increase awareness of resources, tricampus leaders must also increase awareness of Title IX. But mere promotional efforts will not be enough to address what has become a deep wound in our tri-campus culture. The fact that at least five students have taken to their personal social media to share their stories demonstrates a fundamental lack of trust in our institutions to handle cases on their own. The act of sharing these stories itself has only worsened that trust, as students once unfamiliar with Title IX reporting are now most aware of the students who feel betrayed by it. Tricampus leaders must not only promote their resources appropriately but earn back student trust.

Of course, it is also on us, the students, to create a safe campus community. At Notre Dame and Saint Mar y’s, for example, you can become greeNDot certified through a popular bystander intervention course. However, all trainings this fall at Notre Dame have already reached maximum capacity. Students, it seems, are eager to combat sexual violence in the ways that we can.

W hat about the adults?

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By NICOLE BILYAK Scene Writer

With the new movie “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” coming out in March 2023, those who love playing the tabletop role-playing game were thrilled to see new material that would soon be released. One thing that players of “Dungeons & Dragons” were waiting on was a new edition of the game, since the fifth edition was published in 2014.

I recently got my hands on the newest edition’s playtest material for “Dungeons & Dragons” (“D&D”), since I myself am a “Dungeons & Dragons” player. The new edition is called “One D&D” and, according to Dungeons & Dragons Beyond (dndbeyond.com), is said to be an expansion of the game as a whole, which I find very problematic. Players want to be able to play new editions of the game and to see changes to most of the fifth edition’s aspects. So when Wizards of the Coast (WOTC) wants to release a brand new expansion of the game, it is very disheartening to hear that they still want to use the fifth edition, just making things more accessible with hardly any changes.

The first part of the play test material for “One D&D” was released back in August of this year,

but I w ill be primarily discussing the second part, which is all about the Expert classes and some of the mechanics of “D&D” that are changing.

If you have never played “D&D,” then it is important to know that there are officially t welve character classes that you can play while in a campaign — a continuing stor yline or set of adventures that t y pically involve the same characters. With “One D&D,” the Bard, Ranger and Rogue classes were spotlighted and called the Expert classes, because they give Expertise to the skills that are presented on a “D&D” character sheet.

The creators of “One D&D” also rew rote all three of these classes and w ill give insight on what is about to come w ith the remaining nine classes as new parts are released.

The other main change in the new part of the play test material is w ith the spells. In the past, all the spells were separated by specific classes.

For example, the Bard class had its ow n spells, the Ranger class had its ow n, etc. However, “One D&D” has decided to change from spells separated by class to splitting the spells up into three different categories: Arcane, Div ine and Primal.

According to the document, each spell lists the level of the spell, the name and the School of Magic. A lso, the document went into detail about

different feats and also lists the rules glossar y at the ver y end, which amounts to 37 pages of new material.

I have a lot of problems w ith these changes.

First of all, rew riting the classes is one thing, but now sorting all t welve classes into four different groups (Expert, Mage, Priest and Warrior) is going to make things more complicated. It was much easier for ever yone to just pick whatever class they see fit and then be limited to the class’ rules. The feats and rules glossar y were not so much a problem for me, but the one thing I do not like at all are the spells. W hile it may look easy to understand, this poses a problem to those classes that are spellcasters. In the document, those that are spellcasters are now going to be limited to either Arcane, Div ine or Primal spells in the future, which is ver y restricting. In the past, anyone who takes a spellcaster class can take any spell that is w ithin their class.

So essentially, this has undone what fifth edition “D&D” had w ritten in the past. But I am hoping to see most of these in action when “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” comes out in March of next year.

Contact Nicole Bilyak at nbilyak01@saintmarys.edu

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By CLAIRE McKENNA Scene Writer

Dodie is back. Releasing music for the first time since her debut album last year, the singer-songw riter is giving us a look at how the last couple of years have been for her. (Spoiler: a bit all over the place.) Filled w ith her signature whispering voice, layered vocals and relatable lyrics, we are once again able to find ourselves w ithin Dodie’s songs.

“Hot Mess” the first song off the EP w ith the same name is about tr y ing to get out of an on-off relationship. The song starts simple as Dodie sets the scene. It’s just the listener and Dodie’s crooning voice over plucked strings as she describes herself waking up, breaking up and dancing. But as her desperation grows to leave the relationship behind, the song grows w ith her. Layered hums, strings, drumbeats and chimes all get added as the song moves for ward. The clima x of the song comes as she repeats the line, “Let me go.” In the end she has to rely on the other person to do what she cannot — end the relationship for good.

“Get Weird” is a groov y song about the

insecurities Dodie faces when she tries to date women. Featuring a prominent bass line and beats, she tries to figure out what the right way to behave is on a date. She sings over the bridge, “No one told me / ‘Course I stumbled / W here’s the reference? ” and of course there might be some mistakes in dates w ith other women when there are no notable examples to follow. So, what do you say to explain away the awk wardness? Promise that next time it won’t get weird.

A prominent shift comes w ith the third song “Lonely Bones.” A throwback to the Dodie of old, the song feels simple and light, but its ly rics betray the sadness lurking underneath. Below the wav y back-and-forth beat, Dodie croons her ly rical motif, “Oh, lonely bones, have you forgotten? ” again and again. W hile the listener does not know what the lonely bones might have forgotten, the vagueness makes the song more personal because you can fill in the question however you like. The song is good company for a lonely listener.

The last song “No Big Deal (I Love You)” completes this sadder second half to the EP. Dodie describes a relationship where love might have

ex isted bet ween t wo people but was never stated aloud. Dodie is backed by simple piano chords as she describes shared showers and a Sunday in each other’s company, but the bridge is the emotional highlight of the song. The chords transform into piano runs as Dodie confesses over the song what she cannot in real life – she loves the person.

W hile each song feels a bit disparate in theme there definitely is a string that ties them together — ever yone in all of these situations could be called a hot mess. So, if you are feeling a little bit like you are being tied together by a fray ing ribbon, this might be the EP for you.

Contact Claire McKenna at cmckenn4@nd.edu

“Hot Mess” Artist: Dodie Label: The Orchard Favorite tracks: “Get Weird,” “Lonely Bones”

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Stay focused on what’s important, and you will find success this year. Keep your spending down and your sights on running a cost-efficient life. Organization and preparation will set you apart from anyone trying to outmaneuver you. Being eager to learn and try new things will encourage you to reinvent something you enjoy doing into a service that has potential. Your numbers are 9, 13, 23, 25, 32, 36, 47.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Simplify your life. Stop the madness and start to put things in order. Take the initiative to do something to your specifications, and others will see the merit in your words and actions.

Be the one to make a difference.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Take nothing for granted. Oversee whatever you want to achieve. Leave nothing to chance, and don’t take a risk with money, health or contracts. Use your intelligence to revise what isn’t working for you anymore.

Hard work will bring about positive change.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Put yourself and your talents on the line and do what you do best. Opportunities are apparent if you show up and present what you have to offer. Share feelings with someone you love. Romance is on the rise.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Work quietly behind closed doors. Less outside interference will be crucial if you want to get things done. A last-minute change will impact a situation that is causing uncertainty.

Go over the fine print before you agree to participate. Limit spending.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Adjust your life based on the information you receive.

Socializing and attending reunions, conferences or seminars will motivate you to lower stress and enjoy life more. Concentrate on updating your look and nurturing meaningful relationships. Romance is in the stars.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Take a moment to digest what’s happening, and you’ll find it easier to come up with a solution. Walk away from tense situations that are bound to end in anger. Don’t fuel the fire when a forward-thinking plan is what you need.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t wait for someone to outdo you. Put everything you’ve got into what you are trying to achieve, and you will learn a valuable lesson regarding doing the work yourself. Don’t waste time on deadbeats.

Choose your friends and partners based on equality.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t let uncertainty hold you back.

Ask questions and discover what’s possible. Don’t let negativity stand between you and what you want. Be willing to compromise if it will help you move closer to your destination of choice.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don’t send mixed messages. Be frank, offer facts and don’t sugarcoat information if you want to get things done correctly.

Put emotions on the back burner and let intelligence be the driving force behind your decisions.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Consider how to make your money stretch. A domestic change that lowers overhead will ease stress and encourage you to find other ways to save. Simplify your daily routine and fine-tune your diet and exercise to reflect better health.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Keep working toward your goal; enjoy the fruits of your labor when you reach your destination. The satisfaction you gain from your accomplishments will make a powerful statement to others regarding what you have to offer. Romance looks promising.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Stay focused on what’s important and refuse to let others unnerve you. Temper flare-ups will put a wedge between you and someone you love. Don’t say anything you’ll regret.

When in doubt, take a pass and keep your thoughts to yourself.

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MLB Wild Card Weekend Preview Tyler Reidy Sports Writer

They’re all in line, we’re ready for the start. A dozen teams are set to compete for a World Series title, bringing the 2022 MLB season to a dramatic close. It all begins this weekend with eight Wild Card teams playing as many as twelve games in three days.

These best-of-three series will set the stage for the division series round, as the top two teams in each league await, enjoying a first-round bye.

Here’s the tale of the tape for the postseason’s first four matchups.

American League No. 6 Tampa Bay Rays at No. 3 Cleveland Guardians Without question, Tampa and Cleveland are the most overlooked playoff teams in the league. The Rays have weathered an AL East with four 83-plus-win teams, securing a fourth consecutive playoff berth. With outfielder Randy Arozarena being the only player with at least 60 RBI (89), Tampa’s offense employs a next-man-up mentality that is well-suited for the postseason. On the mound, the sixth seed is led by All-Star starting pitcher Shane McClanahan, who pitched to a 2.54 ERA overall but an alarming 7.07 ERA in his last three starts.

His performance and the effort of his fellow rotation pieces will be a difference-maker for the series.

Cleveland is back in the postseason for the fifth time in seven years. The AL Central champions boast a roster with minimal playoff experience, yet their 22-5 record to end the season indicates a readiness for the big moment.

Third baseman Jose Ramírez (126 RBI) leads an offense that won’t hit many home runs but will attack with a barrage of walks, singles and doubles.

The Guardians have a strikingly high ceiling due to their pitching staff. Shane Bieber, Triston McKenzie and Cal Quantrill, who will start the Wild Card series, each has an ERA below 3.40. Behind them, Emmanuel Clase has been the best closer in baseball, recording a major league-best 42 saves. Cleveland went 4-2 against the Rays in the regular season.

No. 5 Seattle Mariners at No. 4 Toronto Blue Jays In 2021, Seattle and Toronto

were each eliminated from playoff contention on the season’s final day. In 2022, they meet as two of the hungriest postseason teams imaginable. The Mariner offense has leveled up thanks to slugging infielders Ty France and Eugenio Suárez (171 combined RBI), star rookie outfielder Julio Rodriguez (28 HR, 25 SB) and surprise power-hitting catcher Cal Raleigh (27 HR).

The bats have struggled to uphold consistency, however, and the same can be said for the pitching staff. Seattle has owned the Jays this year, taking five out of seven regular season matchups, including a four-game sweep in mid-July.

Toronto has enjoyed plentiful success down the stretch, amassing four different threegame win streaks since the dawning of September. The Blue Jays, yielding one of the league’s most fearsome lineups, lead MLB with a .264 team batting average. Six of Toronto’s seven double-digit home run-hitters have a batting average of .260 or higher, helping the Jays to a multidimensional attack. The question mark lies within their league-average pitching staff.

Number one starting pitcher Alek Manoah is as reliable as anyone, but the arms surrounding him must step up to take pressure off the hitters.

National League No. 6 Philadelphia Phillies at No. 3 St. Louis Cardinals For Phillies fans, the eleven-year wait between playoff appearances is over. The Phils walked anything but a straight path in the second half, but they found their way to October. Outfielder Kyle Schwarber has cranked 46 long balls to pace a powerful group of hitters, but pitching depth is a clear concern.

The Phillies have carved out three surefire starters in Aaron Nola, Zack Wheeler and Ranger Suárez, yet there isn’t much to back them up. The bullpen is especially suspect, as Philly has by far the worst relief ERA among postseason qualifiers. Philadelphia went 4-3 against St. Louis this year, with five of the matchups being decided by two runs or less.

The storybook season has reached its final chapter in St. Louis. Over the last six months, the Cardinals have celebrated the 18-year career of starting pitcher Adam Wainwright, enjoyed the final

ZeLO: Re-ranking Irish schedule, week 6 picks I decided to make a tier list.

Thomas Zwiller Sports Writer

This week we have SEVEN previously unranked teams that have jumped into the top 25. Some of them, like Cincinnati or Mississippi State, are foreseeable.

Others, like Syracuse and Kansas, are less so.

The rise of those seven teams came courtesy of seven teams who lost in shocking upsets. Of the seven teams that dropped from the rankings, five (Washington, Baylor, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Florida State and Pittsburgh) were favored on average by nine points. They proceeded to lose by an average margin of 15 points.

So, in other words, it was a chaotic weekend for college football. And ZeLO thrives on chaos.

Sort of. When ZeLO is compared to FPI, in weeks where there is predictability, FPI and its heavy level of certainty is a massive advantage. ZeLO and FPI could pick games at the exact same clip, and FPI could still easily blow ZeLO out of the water.

In weeks of parity, however, like this past weekend, ZeLO picked better than FPI and had more accurate picks overall (as measured

by Brier Points). ZeLO went 45-18, scoring 323.2 Brier Points, while FPI scored 4418 and 296.4 (FPI did not pick the Boise State game this weekend).

As we have progressed through the season and have begun to get actual results, I have been decreasing ZeLO’s weighting of preseason projections and increasing the actual statistics from this season. Given ZeLO’s success over the past two weeks, I think it is calibrated just right and it now has a firm understanding of what teams really are.

So now that ZeLO has a better understanding of what teams actually look like (and to some extent what Notre Dame actually looks like), I thought it would be worthwhile to revisit the schedule and talk about which games will be tricky for the Irish and how that has changed from preseason expectations. Instead of listing them out by difficulty,

Games Notre Dame is still expected to lose No. 5 Clemson (34.5%) No. 16 BYU (39.5%) The expected news first: Notre Dame’s play has seriously decreased their chances against some more formidable opponents.

Since the preseason, the model has loved BYU and had the Cougars as the best independent team. That was ref lected in the Irish’s win percentage, which in the preseason was 44%, but is now down 4.5 points.

I think this is a weird game for ZeLO to predict. This is a neutral site game where BYU has a distance advantage, but Notre Dame has fans that travel well.

I am willing to admit that ZeLO may be overlooking the Irish here. Only time will tell.

A game that does not get the same excuse is the Clemson game. Despite being the home team, the Irish were still underdogs (at 40.9%).

The only significant change was that Notre Dame is now even more of an underdog.

I would expect Clemson to have an even better chance of beating the Irish by the time the game rolls around.

Clemson will face BC, a team they should easily beat. They also face Florida State and Syracuse, teams they will likely be heavily favored to beat.

Preseason wins that are now projected losses No. 22 Syracuse (38.6%) No. 6 USC (38.9%) This is by far the most exciting category for me.

Syracuse, a team I doubt even the most delusional Syracuse fan had starting 5-0, has done exceptionally well this season. In the preseason, Notre Dame was a 57% favorite, despite being on the road. Now, the Irish are the underdog when they head on the road. This projection could easily change.

Syracuse plays No. 14 North Carolina State and No. 5 Clemson before they take on Notre Dame, so a lot could change.

USC is different from Syracuse. While ZeLO was reasonably skeptical of USC early on, the Trojans were expected to be good and after their performance thus far through the season, ZeLO

has now swung the other way. Originally, the Irish were a fairly comfortable road favorite at 66.2%, but with the two teams trending in opposite directions, the Irish dropped 27.3% to be an underdog.

Decreased win chances, but still projected wins BC (70%) Stanford (69.9%) UNLV (68.7%) Navy (67.5%) Luckily, the news is not all doom and gloom for the Irish. Notre Dame still has four games that they are heavily favored in. These are games I would be shocked if they lost.

Stanford and BC were projected to be two of the easiest games for Notre Dame this season. While that has not changed much, Notre Dame’s odds of winning against the Cardinals have dropped by nearly nine percent. The Irish gave up less than 5% against BC. Notre Dame should still win these, but it might be closer than you think.

UNLV also saw a 9% increase in winning chances against Marcus Freeman’s squad, though I do think this could change somewhat as the two teams play out the rest of their season. I expect the same thing of Navy.

Notre Dame should look better as the game approaches, but the slow Irish start has dropped their win percentage by about 2%.

Week 6 Picks No. 8 Tennessee @ No. 25 LSU And ZeLO starts with a f laming hot take. After having LSU as a mid to bottomtier SEC team, the model has swung the other way, favoring LSU to upset Tennessee.

Now, LSU is 4-1 and has had strong showings against Mississippi State and a road win against Auburn. And if LSU had not had inferior special teams play, they could easily be 5-0. So, while it feels crazy, the Tigers are home and on a roll.

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Near misses turn out to be costly as Irish fall to Indiana with a tight score of 1-0

By MATTHEW CROW Sports Writer

On Wednesday night, Notre Dame men’s soccer traveled to Bloomington for a non-conference game against in-state rival Indiana. The Irish came within inches of goals on several occasions but were ultimately unable to get in the scoring column, suffering a 1-0 loss. The game had originally been scheduled for Sept. 3 but was postponed due to inclement weather conditions.

The defeat moved the Irish to 5-41 (2-2) on the season, while the Hoosiers improved to 5-2-3.

Notre Dame’s attack was firing on all cylinders to start the game. It was a continuation of their performance from last week when they defeated Kalamazoo and Boston College while compiling an impressive ten goals over the two games. In the ninth minute, junior defender Paddy Burns and sophomore forward Matthew Roou connected on a give-and-go that culminated with Roou lofting a well-timed

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sit atop the B12 Conference standings.

ZeLO has TCU as a slight favorite, just 56.6%, and this game, as weird as it is to read (let alone write it), could have important conference ramifications.

No. 11 Utah @ No. 18 UCLA Bruins UCLA has been seen by ZeLO as a strong team and a dark horse to win the PAC-12. With Washington’s stumble from last weekend, the current PAC-12 Championship matchup is UCLA and USC. This game could very easily change that projection, as the Utes, whom ZeLO favors winning this game (just slightly) at 52.3%, is on the outside looking in. This game has massive conference and playoff implications.

A win for Utah would keep them as a 1-loss team, which keeps them as a potential playoff team (emphasis on potential). A win for UCLA would help give them some actual legitimacy.

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pass to Burns inside the box.

Burns’ volley got past the keeper but bounced off the left post, keeping the score level at 0-0.

After a stretch of scoreless play, a Notre Dame foul inside the box gave Indiana a penalty kick in the twenty-fifth minute. Redshirt senior Ryan Wittenbrink converted the penalty to give the Hoosiers a 1-0 advantage.

Ceding penalties has been a recurring issue for the Irish, as their most recent defeat, a 1-0 loss against North Carolina, was also decided on a first-half penalty for the opposition.

Apart from the costly foul, Notre Dame head coach Chad Riley was pleased with the play of the defense, as well as that of junior goalkeeper Bryan Dowd, who recorded four saves against Indiana. Riley spoke postgame about the Irish’s defensive effort.

“Conceding another penalty, we’re a little bit frustrated with that,” Riley said. “As a unit, I thought [the defense] played pretty well and gave us some good performances. Indiana’s

got some quality attacking players that were pretty good on the night. I thought, for the most part, that we did a good job containing them and limiting their attacks.”

Indiana took a 1-0 lead into halftime, and the Irish were the victims of another unlucky bounce early in the second half.

With Notre Dame on the attack, sophomore midfielder Bryce Boneau received a pass from sophomore defender Kyle Genenbacher just outside of the box on the right side of the field.

Boneau fired a shot to the left of the diving Indiana goalkeeper, but the ball deflected off of the left post for the second time in the game.

Later in the half, the Irish appeared to finally level the score, courtesy of a 71st-minute goal from freshman forward Wyatt Borso, but Borso was ruled offside. Riley spoke positively about the chances that the Notre Dame offense created, while also noting room for improvement and lamenting losing a winnable game.

“It’s a little frustrating anytime you lose a close game because, at the end of the day, we want to be the team that’s winning close games,” Riley said. “We had some good moments on the attack. We want to continue to grow our attack more while building on some solid defensive play.”

The overturned goal would be the closest that Notre Dame would come to evening the score, as Indiana held on to take the 1-0 win. Although the Irish did not get the result they wanted, they remain focused on their longterm goals. Riley discussed how facing a strong opponent in a difficult road environment will provide benefits that carry through the rest of the season as Notre Dame looks to turn these close losses into wins.

“It’s the good thing about these games, playing a good team like Indiana [on the road],” Riley said.

“You know you’re going to get better from them. At the end of the day, you want to get better and pick up results as well.”

After the weather-induced

break from their conference slate, Notre Dame will return home to host No. 11 Louisville (6-2-2) on Saturday. The Cardinals are currently playing at a high level, having defeating No. 8 Pitt and NC State in their last two conference games. The Irish will try to put this loss behind them as they return to ACC play.

“I think it’s just about leaving that result. Leaving that game, as far as the details of it, and letting our frustration be a positive for us and turn it into another performance where we show our growth,” Riley said. “On the bus ride home, we’ll lick our wounds a little bit. When we get off the bus, that game is over, we start recovering and preparing for Louisville.”

The Irish will aim to improve to 3-2 in ACC play as they host Louisville on Saturday at Alumni Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. and the game will be broadcast on ACCNX.

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Lacey report

Lacey enters transfer portal three weeks after two-sack performance

By JOSEPH TUNNEY Sports Writer

Three weeks ago, Jacob Lacey was making big-time plays on the field for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. In Notre Dame’s 24-17 win over Cal, the 6-1, 280-pound defensive tackle had two pivotal sacks on a day when Notre Dame needed all of the defensive help they could get. Notre Dame Football’s twitter account released a video of him being mobbed by his teammates.

On Thursday, head coach Marcus Freeman said that Lacey is no longer with the team and that he will enter the transfer portal when it reopens. Minutes later, Lacey confirmed the news on his Twitter account, saying that it was with “lots and lots of prayer and sorrow,” that he finally decided to transfer.

It’s a surprising decision, but one that is completely within Lacey’s rights considering the new regulations of the transfer portal. Lacey will be redshirting the rest of the year, ensuring that he will have two years of eligibility at his new school.

Lacey seems to have seen that his playing time was trending in the wrong direction.

Lacey played 24 snaps in his

best game against Cal but just nine against North Carolina.

He was the third-most used defensive tackle on the roster, behind graduate student Jayson Ademilola and Howard Cross.

Fellow defensive tackle Gabriel Rubio has also begun to get snaps in multiple games.

Freeman said that the gap left

by Lacey will be filled by Rubio and Chris Smith, a graduate transfer from Harvard. Smith has played 46 snaps, compared to Lacey’s 73 this season.

Sophomore Jason Onye has been elevated from the scout team to see game action.

Lacey graduated from Notre Dame last spring. He was a four-star, top-200 recruit when he committed to Notre Dame in 2019 from Bowling Green, Kentucky. The product of South Warren High School also held offers from Cincinnati, Clemson and Kentucky.

Head coach Marcus Freeman and the Irish seem to be at peace with Lacey’s decision.

“He made a decision that ultimately, he felt was best for him and we respect that. We love Jacob. The best thing about it is that he leaves here with a degree in hand,” said Freeman.

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Irish graduate student and defensive linebacker Jacob Lacey, shown here in ND’s home game against Cal, announces decision to transfer.

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recruiting feature

Shamrock Series presents unique recruiting opportunities for Notre Dame

By LIAM COOLICAN Associate Sports Editor

A s t he Ir ish prepa re to ta ke t he f ield i n L a s Vega s on Sat u rday, t hei r pr i mar y foc us w i l l be ea r n i ng a much-needed statement w i n over BY U. However, t he a n nua l Sha m rock Ser ies ga me present s a u n ique oppor t u n it y for Not re Da me to showca se t hei r bra nd to fa ns a nd recr u it s w ho may not have ot her w ise had t he oppor t u n it y to see t he Ir ish play close to home.

“T here a re cer ta i n pa r t s of t he cou nt r y t hat Not re Da me doesn’t have t he oppor t u n it y to play,” Kyle Kel ly, a Not re Da me recr u it i ng i nsider w it h R iva ls, sa id i n a n i nterv iew w it h T he Obser ver.

“W it h t he Sha m rock Ser ies, t hat g ives Not re Da me t he oppor t u n it y to pick cer ta i n spot s w it h i n t he cou nt r y t hat t hey don’t rea l ly have much of a presence...goi ng t here g ives t hem t he abi l it y to showca se t he prog ra m (a nd) t he tea m.”

Severa l of Not re Da me’s com m it s f rom t he west

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season of legendary catcher Yadier Molina and watched future Hall-of-Famer Albert Pujols belt his 700th home run. They also have the likely NL MVP in first baseman Paul Goldschmidt. St. Louis has been arguably the most consistent of the Wild Card teams, with a fundamentally sound offense and reliable pitching staff. Their playoff success will likely depend on their ability to match other teams when they heat up. The Redbirds are looking to get over the hump in this era of contention, having gone 4-8 in the last three postseasons.

No. 5 San Diego Padres at No. 4 New York Mets This time a year ago, San Diego was reeling from an epic second-half collapse. 2022 was kinder to the Friars, as they now head to the Big Apple with hopes for a massive upset. New York pitches incredibly well, but San Diego offers a worthy counterattack with proven veterans Yu Darvish, Blake Snell and Joe Musgrove filling out the rotation. To reach the Division Series for the second time in three years, the Padres will need trade deadline acquisitions

coa st w i l l be i n at tenda nce t h is weekend, i nclud i ng fou r-sta r t ig ht end Cooper F la naga n, fou r-sta r w ide receiver R ico F lores, Jr. a nd fou r-sta r r u n n i ng back Jayden L i ma r, accord i ng to Kel ly.

W h i le Not re Da me is certa i n ly a nat iona l bra nd, t he recent success of west coa st schools such a s USC a nd UCL A mea ns t hat t he Ir ish a re faci ng i ncrea sed compet it ion i n t hat a rea of t he cou nt r y.

“USC is t he hot tea m r ig ht now, L i ncol n R i ley a bra nd new coach,” sa id Kel ly. “UCL A ha s been doi ng wel l t h is yea r, a nd now Not re Da me is l i ke, a l r ig ht wel l, we’re goi ng to go out on t he west coa st a nd get i n f ront of people to get ou r ow n ex posu re.”

T h is weekend’s ga me w i l l be played i n t he state-oft he-a r t A l leg ia nt Stad iu m, home of t he N FL’s Ra iders, w h ich a lso present s a n oppor t u n it y for t he Ir ish.

“Not re Da me ca n use t h is a s a sel l i ng poi nt, t hat hey, for ou r Sha m rock Ser ies ga me, we’re goi ng to play i n a n N FL stad iu m,” Kel ly sa id. T he Ir ish w i l l

Juan Soto and Josh Bell to return to superstar form. Third baseman Manny Machado (32 HR, 102 RBI) has carried the offense all year, but he can only bear the weight for so long without elite protection.

San Diego handled the Mets comfortably in the regular season, taking four out of six head-to-head matchups.

New York is back in the dance for the first time since 2016, but not on the terms they were looking for. Atlanta made a late surge to capture the NL East, forcing the Mets into this weekend as the best Wild Card team record-wise.

The Mets’ three-man rotation of Max Scherzer, Jacob deGrom and Chris Bassitt instills fear unlike any other, yet each of them delivered subpar performances in their most crucial starts last weekend. New York’s offense, much like Toronto’s, is reliable and combines high levels of power, contact and discipline.

Therefore, the outcome of the series lies in how much the Padres’ big bats and Mets’ big arms can tap back into their potential.

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play i n a n N FL stad iu m at lea st once more t h is yea r w hen t hey v isit Nav y i n Ba lt i more.

W h i le t he locat ion a nd venue cer ta i n ly do prov ide u n ique oppor t u n it ies for t he Ir ish to showca se t hei r bra nd, perhaps more i mpor ta nt ly, t he Ir ish ca n prove t h is weekend t hat t hei r sea son is f i r m ly headed i n t he r ig ht d i rect ion.

“I t h i n k t here wa s a lot of wor r y a nd skept icism w hen Not re Da me lost week t wo aga i nst Ma rsha l l,” Kel ly sa id. “T hat caused us to check i n w it h com m it s, see w hat t hei r sta nces were, a nd now t hat some of t hese g uy s, t hese h ig h ly rated prospect s, t hat a re a lso get t i ng cou r ted f rom ot her schools, now we get to br i ng t hem i n person, to a n N FL stad iu m, i n L a s Vega s, i n pr i met i me.”

T he slow sta r t to t he season d id not da mpen t he moment u m t he Ir ish had bu i lt i n recr u it i ng over t he su m mer. T he on ly recr u it to de-com m it si nce t hat Ma rsha l l loss is E l ija h Pa ige, a 4-sta r of fensive tack le. W h i le Kel ly say s t hat he is u ncer ta i n a s to

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might settle in among the Irish offense and disrupt the offensive chemistry of the team going forward.

2. Win the turnover battle (or at least don’t lose it) The Irish have been horrendous at generating turnovers this season. In fact, their only turnover of the year came in the Irish’s last game against UNC when graduate student defensive lineman Jayson Ademilola recovered a fumble by UNC quarterback Drake Maye. BYU, on the other hand, boasts a plus four turnover battle and they have scored two defensive touchdowns this season.

The Cougars have only turned the ball over once so far this season, so the Irish will have their work cut out for them if they are going to win the battle. That one turnover, an interception by Jaren Hall, came in the first game of the season against South Florida.

Since then, Hall has attempted an impressive 144 passes without throwing an interception. While forcing a mistake from Hall seems unlikely, the Irish

w hy Pa ige de-com m it ted, a factor cou ld be t hat he wa nted to play closer to home. Pa ige, who is f rom Phoen i x, com m it ted to USC ea rl ier t h is week .

Pey ton Bowen, a fou rsta r sa fet y per R iva lssevera l ot her out let s have l isted h i m a s a f ive-sta r– head l i nes Not re Da me’s recr u it i ng cla ss nex t yea r.

However, he ha s open ly been v isit i ng ot her schools, pa r t ic u la rly Tex a s A& M a nd Ok la homa. “Is t here a rea son to wor r y t hat now t h is is t he per fect exc use for h i m to leave t he cla ss ? ” Kel ly sa id. “It a l most seems l i ke somet i mes he’s been look i ng for a n exc use to decom m it f rom Not re Da me.”

T here wa s concer n, a fter Not re Da me’s loss to Ma rsha l l, t hat it wou ld have a n ef fect on recr u iti ng, but it ha s not pa n ned out t hat way. A side f rom Pa ige, Bowen a nd t he rest of t he cla ss have rema i ned com m it ted to Not re Da me. R iva ls c u rrent ly ha s Not re Da me’s i ncom i ng recr u iti ng cla ss ra n ked t h i rd, beh i nd on ly A laba ma a nd Oh io State.

“W hen you’re losi ng t hose t y pes of ga mes, t hen you maybe see t hose t y pes of recr u it s t hat a re on t he edge of ‘maybe Not re Da me isn’t r ig ht for me, ok ay Not re Da me loses t wo ga mes. Now ’s t he t i me to go,’” Kel ly sa id. “But t hey rea l ly haven’t had t hat, t hey ’ve kept ever y t h i ng toget her.”

Kel ly descr ibed most of t he cla ss of 2023 a s “locked i n” at Not re Da me.

“From what we’ve hea rd, bot h f rom Not re Da me, a nd ta l k i ng to k ids a nd t hei r coaches a nd pa rent s, is most of t hese g uy s a re locked i n,” he sa id. “T hey a re 100 percent, f u l ly comm it ted to Not re Da me a nd t here’s goi ng to be no cha nge i n t hei r stat us.”

Not re Da me does not have a qua r terback com m it ted i n t he cla ss of 2023, a lt houg h t here is a push for h ig h lytouted com m it CJ Ca r r to recla ssi f y f rom t he cla ss of 2024, a lt houg h Kel ly noted t hat appea rs u n l i kely at t h is stage. “I t h i n k Not re Da me is pret t y much

should strive to not lose the turnover battle. Although the Irish offense looked significantly better last week, the Irish simply are not an explosive enough team to give up defensive touchdowns to BYU and allow their potent offense to get good field position.

three players have proved their value over the course of their playing careers.

With a second-string quarterback under center, the Irish need to prioritize the run game going forward. Junior quarterback Drew Pyne improved significantly against UNC when the Irish started to open up the run game.

The Cougars do not possess a stellar run defense either, ranking 93rd in FBS in that category. Just last week, they gave up over 200 rushing yards to a 1-4 Utah State team. A few weeks before that, they gave up 212 rushing yards to Oregon.

The Irish offensive line has been somewhat of a disappointment this season, but last week’s performance against UNC was encouraging. They should be able to push around a BYU defensive line that has generated just 24 tackles for loss this season, which is 94th among FBS teams. If the Irish prioritize establishing a run game early, their success on the ground should open more passing lanes and big plays for an Irish offense that desperately needs more explosive plays.

3. Continue to run the football A notable downfall of the Irish offense this season has been the run game.

Aside from the UNC game where the Irish averaged an impressive 5.6 yards per carry, the Irish averaged a disappointing 2.5, 3.5 and 3.6 yards per carry in their first three games. In the impressive performance against UNC, the Irish effectively used a three-back system with sophomore Audric Estime, junior Chris Tyree and sophomore Logan Diggs rushing for 134, 80 and 50 yards, respectively. Diggs was also utilized effectively in the passing game, recording 65 receiving yards and a receiving touchdown.

The Irish should continue to use a threeback system going forward.

All three of the running backs are some of the best athletes on the team and all

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Aidan Thomas – Sports Editor After a bye week, I’m trying to control my optimism and remind myself that UNC’s defense is abysmal. But there were a lot of things that looked a whole lot better against the Tar Heels two weeks ago, and with an extra week to make adjustments, I like the Irish’s chances in Vegas. Notre Dame has never lost a Shamrock Series game. They’re also 6-2 against BYU and have never given up more than 23 points.

I think the Irish will jump out to a big lead early, with BYU having some first-half struggles this year. However, the Cougars are a good second-half squad and have a ton of depth where Notre Dame doesn’t so that’s a concern as this battle wears on. My prediction? Notre Dame is up by eight before BYU scores late but fails to convert the twopoint conversion. The Irish defense prevails in a big-time moment against a big-time opponent on a big-time stage.

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Coming out of a bye week always scares me. The Irish have only scored three points in the first quarter all season, and it’s very likely that they come out of the gates slow because of the bye week. I expect the offense to find its groove later on in

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look i ng for a ny t h i ng t hey ca n get at qua r terback r ig ht now,” Kel ly sa id.

“T hey need bod ies at t hat posit ion.”

Kel ly noted qua r terback Aver y Joh nson, w ho is c u r rent ly com m it ted to Ka nsa s State, a s a potent ia l ta rget for t he Ir ish. A side f rom t he qua r terback posit ion, He a lso h ig h l ig hted r u n n i ng back Jerem iya h L ove, w ide receiver Taeshau n Lyons a nd qua rterback/sa fet y Bra ndy n H i l l ma n a s u ncom m it ted ta rget s w h ich Ir ish fa ns shou ld keep t hei r eyes on.

One t h i ng ha s been clea r to t hose fol low i ng Not re Da me recr u it i ng i n t he la st severa l mont hs : Ma rc us Freema n approaches recr u it i ng ver y d i f ferent ly f rom Br ia n Kel ly.

“I t h i n k on t he su r face Ma rc us Freema n ha s been recr u it i ng bet ter, he’s certa i n ly g iven more ef for t to recr u it i ng,” Kyle Kel ly sa id.

W h i le he ha s on ly been

the game, though, as they establish the run game and continue to build off of their stellar performance against UNC two weeks ago.

BYU’s run defense is better than UNC’s, but they are by no means stellar, and the Irish should be able to exploit the Cougars’ defensive line. On the other side of the ball, the Irish will have their hands full with BYU quarterback Jaren Hall, who has been sensational this season. I expect Saturday’s game to be a back-and-forth battle, but the Irish looked much improved two weeks ago, and I expect them to build off of that performance and secure their biggest victory of the season so far.

Notre Dame 34, BYU 27 Mannion McGinley – Assistant Managing Editor Post-bye week games have consistently gone poorly in recent Notre Dame history. This one cannot. I don’t know what kind of fire the Irish need to light under themselves but it needs to be there right from the get. Pull juice from the uniforms, from each other, from the environment, I don’t care but there’s a way for the Irish to win this game and it requires every piece of the puzzle to bring their A-game.

The Irish defense has it in them to make the prolific BYU offense one-dimensional. They did so with UNC and regardless of the Tar Heel defensive skill (or lack thereof), the offensive

cover i ng Not re Da me si nce Ma rch, he ha s had t he oppor t u n it y to hea r f rom recr u it s about t he d i f ferences i n st yles bet ween t he t wo coaches.

“From w hat I’ve hea rd a nd w hat I’ve lea r ned f rom k ids is Ma rc us Freema n is much more present a nd he con nect s bet ter w it h t he k ids,” Kel ly sa id.

One of t he big gest cha llenges for Not re Da me i n t he pa st ha s been movi ng f rom good recr u it i ng cla sses to g reat recr u it i ng cla sses. “You look at t he data, t hat ’s how you w i n nat iona l cha mpionsh ips,” Kel ly sa id.

“You have to have a cer ta i n a mou nt of f ive-sta r players a nd you have to have a certa i n a mou nt of top 100, top 150 h ig h ly rated fou rsta r recr u it s. T hat w i l l be t he cha l lenge for Ma rc us Freema n a nd t hat ’l l be t he hu rd le he’l l look to overcome t hat I don’t t h i n k Br ia n Kel ly wa s ever rea l ly able to get over.”

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hold-up is something to brag about for the Irish. They need to do it even better this weekend. The turnovers have begun and it’s a matter of doing it again and again this weekend.

Once the defense takes the ball away, the Irish offense has to kick it into gear. Run game. Run game. Run game. Occasional strong pass play to Mayer or Lorenzo Styles and then more running. The Irish can pull it off if they put a stopper in the Cougar offense and go to work on their own.

Notre Dame 35, BYU 31 Liam Coolican – Associate Sports Editor Notre Dame’s offense seems to have finally turned a corner.

Yes, North Carolina’s defense is among the worst in college football, but the way Notre Dame went about their game plan was impressive. They dominated the line of scrimmage and established the run early, which allowed them to unlock a vertical dimension that had previously been lacking. This weekend is an important test for the Irish.

They figured out what they need to do to be successful from a play calling and a personnel standpoint last week, but they have to be able to execute against a better defense to prove it is for real. On the other side of the ball, the Irish have been able to limit quarterbacks such as CJ Stroud and Drake Maye to low outputs, and that should provide a

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A f ter t he ga me A lber t noted her t ra nsit ion f rom m id f ield to forwa rd helped cha nge her role i n t he Ir ish f o r m a t i o n , put t i ng her i n posit ion to net her f i rst brace of t he yea r.

“O vera l l when I moved up to t he n i ne, I just k new I had to get t he ba l l, t u r n a nd ta ke my space. So eit her I col lapsed t he back l i ne so I cou ld play it w ide or ta ke t he shot by mysel f.”

Mov i ng for wa rd, t he road doesn’t get ea sier for t he Ir ish. On Su nday, Not re Da me w i l l welcome No. 3 Flor ida State to Sout h Bend, w it h t he Sem inoles represent i ng a not her cr ucia l hu rd le on t he pat h to an ACC t it le.

A lber t, however, focused on t he play of t he Ir ish head i ng i nto

blueprint for the Cougar’s dual-threat quarterback Jaren Hall. The offense looks poised to continue its upward trend, and the defense will do what it has done all season, as the Irish get a statement win in the desert.

Notre Dame 27, BYU 20 Emily DeFazio – Associate Sports Editor Before the UNC game, I had said that this would be a turning point for the Irish.

Regardless of the caliber the UNC defense, if Drew Pyne & Co. could get some momentum going and snag two wins in a row, it would be invaluable mentally for the team.

If anything came out of the matchup in Chapel Hill, I hope Drew Pyne realized he could play as QB1. He will need that confidence heading into the Shamrock Series.

The Irish cannot afford turnovers or overthrown passes like there were at the beginning of the season. This is not a Tar-Heels level defense they are up against, and they need to achieve the same success against a much stronger BYU line. That being said, the defense needs to continue to bring their A-game to shut down BYU’s offense and give the Irish some wiggle room on the other side of the ball. I expect some early struggles on offense as they adjust to this new opponent, and BYU keeps it close until a fourth quarter passing touchdown to keep the

t he match, not Flor ida State.

“I t h i n k we’re just goi ng to go out t here a nd play ou r best,” sa id A lber t. “I t h i n k ou r tea m, we look at t he nex t ga me l i ke a ny ot her ga me. We don’t ca re about what t he na me is, or who it is.

We just wa nt to go out t here a nd play ou r best.”

Head coach Nate Nor ma n rema rked a fter t he ga me t hat Not re Da me’s w i n just week s ago aga i nst No. 2 V i rg i n ia cou ld g ive t he tea m a helpf u l sense of con f idence a nd composu re head i ng i nto Su nday ’s bat t le w it h t he Sem i noles.

“Hopef u l ly t hat w i n g ives us a bit of conf idence a nd bel ief to go i nto t hat ga me, because t hat’s rea l ly just somet h i ng you need to have when you play aga i nst t he defend i ng nat iona l cha mpions,” Nor ma n sa id. “T hey ’re just a rea l ly good tea m.

Irish ahead.

ND 31, BYU 24 Maddie Ladd – Associate Sports Editor Are the Irish feeling lucky in Vegas this weekend? I like the odds. A Shamrock Series weekend in the NFL Allegiant Stadium will certainly provide an excellent backdrop for an exciting game as Notre Dame takes on BYU. Plus, I’d like to think the special-edition uniforms have to give the Irish an extra boost (come on, they’re pretty cool). A victory against UNC two weeks ago saw the run game come to life and major development from quarterback Drew Pyne.

Coming off of a bye week will have given the team a chance to regroup and prepare for the big stage. Nevertheless, BYU is a talented team and has earned their No. 16 ranking after a 4-1 start to the season.

Quarterback Jaren Hall is one to watch after a stellar season so far, though the Irish will surely put up a fight on defense.

I believe Notre Dame can establish a big run game this weekend, and if Audric Esitme, Chris Tyree and Logan Diggs can get after it, they’ll be able to light up Allegiant Stadium.

The team certainly found something against UNC, and they can continue it this weekend. I see a victory in the desert happening, and a continuation of a perfect Shamrock Series record.

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But I t h i n k for us we showed just so much energ y f rom a defensive sta ndpoi nt, bei ng able to get t he ba l l mov i ng.

We put a lot of pressu re on V i rg i n ia a nd t hat’s somet h i ng we’l l rea l ly t r y to ta ke i nto [ Su nday].”

W it h F lor ida St ate com i ng of f a n i mpressive 1-0 resu lt aga i nst V i rg i n ia t hem selves, t hey ’l l enter A lu m n i St ad iu m in i mpressive for m. T he defendi ng nat iona l cha mpions a re st i l l yet to lose t h is yea r a nd now boa st st atement w i n s over V i rg i n ia a s wel l a s a n i mpressive C lem son squad t hat beat Not re Da me 2-0 i n t hei r ACC opener.

T he Ir ish will ta ke on t he Sem i noles at 12 p.m. on Su nday at A lu m n i Stad iu m. T he match w i l l be broadca sted on t he ACC Net work .

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Keys to victory against BYU: Will the Irish regain strong offensive start in first quarter?

By NATE MOLLER Senior Sports Writer

The Irish return to action after their bye week in a Shamrock Series showdown against No. 16 BYU in Las Vegas. The Irish looked impressive in their road victory over UNC, but they will need to be on top of their game this weekend against a very talented Cougars team. Let’s take a look at the keys to victory for the Irish this weekend.

SARAH GRISHAM | The Observer

Irish sophomore running back Logan Diggs finds three-back system success as Notre Dame attempts to regain traction in the 2022-2023 season. Diggs looks for the ball in ND’s recent away game against UNC.

1. Find the end zone in the first quarter The Irish have only scored three points in the first quarter throughout their first four games of the season, and that came in week one against Ohio State. Fortunately for the Irish, their defense has been stellar in the first quarter as well, allowing the Irish to remain within striking range, but some first-quarter offense would be useful.

Against a BYU offense that is averaging nearly 35 points per game this season, the

Irish will have to come ready to play out of the gates. BYU quarterback Jaren Hall has been spectacular this season, completing 70.2% of his passes for 1,438 yards and 12 touchdowns. Even if the Irish defense plays well in this one, the Cougars are going to put up some points.

For that reason, falling behind early against an experienced, disciplined BYU team will be difficult to overcome later in the game.

In past years, offensive coordinator Tommy Rees has been very successful at scripting successful first quarter drives, but that has been non-existent this year.

The Irish must go after the Cougars from the start in this one and take some early shots down field. An early Irish touchdown is exactly what the Irish will need to shake off any lingering rust from the bye week. If the Irish start the game with a couple of three-and-outs, frustration see BYU PAGE 14

ND women’s soccer

Albert scores twice as Irish thrash Wolfpack

By J.J. POST Spor t s Wr iter

T hu rsday n ig ht, Not re Da me soccer moved to 10-2 on t he sea son w it h a 3-0 w i n over Nor t h Ca rol i na State.

T he Ir ish sta r ted of f hot, generat i ng a couple of n ice ea rly look s at goa l before d raw i ng a pena lt y i n t he 25t h m i nute. W it hout sen ior m id f ielder a nd reg u la r pena lt y ta ker Madd ie Mercado on t he f ield, t he dut ies fel l to sen ior for wa rd K i k i Va n Za nten, who made no m ista kes send i ng Wol f pack keeper Ma r ia Echeza r reta t he w rong way to g ive Not re Da me t he lead.

A f ter rest i ng up at ha l f t i me, a ref reshed Ir ish press took cont rol of t he ga me i n t he second ha l f, l i m iti ng NC State to just t wo shot s.

It wa s sophomore m id f ielder Korbi n A lber t who prov ided t he i nsu ra nce,

f i r i ng home a pa i r of goa ls to g ive Not re Da me a com for table 3-0 lead t hey wou ld n’t rel i nqu ish.

T he f i rst wa s one of her best t h is sea son, cu rl i ng t he ba l l i nto t he back of t he net f rom just outside t he box . T he f i n ish wa s made more i mpressive by t he fact t he sophomore wa s fa l l i ng dow n, celebrat i ng f rom t he g rou nd a f ter t he ba l l h it t he back of t he net.

T he nex t ca me on t he back of a set up by g raduate st udent forwa rd Ol iv ia W i ngate, who picked up t he ba l l at t he ha l f way l i ne a nd d rove for wa rd, event ua l ly spl it t i ng t he defense w it h a pa ss to A lber t.

A lber t opted not to shoot t he ba l l on sig ht, def t ly d r ibbl i ng her way a rou nd t h ree Wol f pack defenders to f i nd space a nd f i re home. see SOCCER PAGE 15

MAX PETROSKY | The Observer

The Irish women’s soccer team celebrates during their home game against NC State on October 6. The team will return home to Alumni Stadium to face Florida State, hoping to build on their 3-0 victory.

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caused Patterson to switch gears, but he has focused on building continuity. The chemistry seen in that game gave hope to the team, especially in establishing the run game. There was much that the offensive line did well against the Tar Heels, yet Patterson also stresses the importance of focusing on the mistakes.

“Itisexcitingtoseeallthehard work pay off,” Patterson said.

“But we all agreed, we can never be satisfied with our performance.

You can’t let winning mask the mistakes you made during the game. When you lose, those mistakes are bright spots.

When you win, it kind of gets hidden.”

According to Patterson, the Irish’s bye week has helped them

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impact. Despite starting and play ing the majorit y of offensive snaps, Thomas is sitting on three receptions for 32 yards in four games.

That needs to improve from a player that has the talent to become the W R2 in this offense.

3. Senior linebacker JD Bertrand Part of this is on Bertrand, and part of it isn’t. For the second straight game, Bertrand w ill miss the first half of the game after a second-half targeting penalt y in the prior contest.

The first one was a prett y clear-cut targeting call, and it was really a mental mistake from the senior captain. The second call was far more questionable, and Notre Dame appealed the decision, albeit unsuccessfully. But beyond the targeting calls, Bertrand hasn’t been the impact player the Irish need at linebacker.

That unit has been the weak spot of the defensive corps, although they took a step for ward against the Tar Heels. Bertand himself has 18 tack les, which ties for fourth on the team.

However, he really hasn’t created much in the way of disruption, w ith zero tack les for loss, sacks, pass breakups, forced fumbles or interceptions. The Irish need some more dy namic play from their linebackers, and that starts w ith their senior captain.

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with their individual critiques. The team has spent extra time at practice focusing on technique and what will allow them to stand up to a competitive oponent in 16th-ranked BYU this weekend. The Irish are ready for Vegas and ready to write the story of the rest of this season.

“If we take care of business the way we aresupposedto,mostpeopleare going to forget what happened in the beginning of the season,” Patterson said.

Perhaps this is wishful thinking on Patterson’s part, but only time will tell.

This weekend’s Vegas matchup will be the litmus test for the Irish and how they have been able to handle a tough beginning of the season — both physically and emotionally.

Contact Madeline Ladd at mladd2@nd.edu

Three years ago, Lenzy was the former track star that the Irish plugged into gadget plays. Lenzy utilized his speed well, and he figured to be a weapon at w ide receiver.

Injuries marred his development at times, but now fully healthy, Lenzy has looked almost lost at times on the field. W hether it’s poorly timed drops, a failure to get open or any thing else, Lenzy has simply not made an impact. He’s touched the ball eight times in four games for 76 all-purpose yards. Between him and Thomas, they need to solidif y the w ide receiver corps for the Irish.

1. Sophomore offensive line Blake Fisher The offensive line has improved greatly since the start of the year, but right tackle Blake Fisher has continued to struggle.

He’s consistently been one of the weak links on the line, and he has missed blocks in key moments that have hurt the Irish.

Think back to Week 1, w ith the Irish up 10-7 at the start of the second half. Sophomore quarterback Tyler Buchner had sophomore w ide receiver Lorenzo St yles open dow n the sideline but rushed the throw as Fisher got beat around the edge.

The Irish missed on the potential touchdow n, and didn’t score again.

Fisher has monster size and potential and he needs to translate that into on-field production in the coming weeks.

Contact Aidan Thomas at athomas @nd.edu

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‘Creating chaos’: Kiser prepared to lead the Irish to victory over BYU

By MANNION McGINLEY Managing Editor

MAX PETROSKY | The Observer

Irish graduate student linebacker Jack Kiser demonstrates preparedness to lead the Notre Dame team against BYU with confidence and valuable perspective. The Irish will face BYU in Vegas on October 8.

The linebacker room will be one man short for the first half of this week’s game as J.D. Bertrand got called for targeting again against the Tar Heels two weeks ago.

The rest of the squad has practiced filling in for the senior captain, shifting over and running different packages but a lot of those adjustments have fallen on graduate student Jack Kiser.

The Indiana native has been prepared for a moment like this though.

Since high school, he’s played a wide range of positions. Then, he played any where from quarterback to defensive back.

Now, he trains in ever y linebacker position and even sometimes in

the v yper role on the line.

Having played all over the field, Kiser has a clear perspective on the defense as a whole, their goals and what the Irish need to work on to strengthen their defensive presence through the rest of the season. The main focus, he says, is turnovers.

“If you want to be a great defense, you’ve got to create chaos,” Kiser said. “We haven’t created as much as we want but we certainly do believe when we get the thing rolling, they’re going to come in bunches. Ever y day we’re reminding people ‘Punch at the ball, rip.’

Anytime you’re around that ball it has to be some type of attempt to create that turnover. That’s something that’s always on our mind.

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patterson feature

‘I still love what I do’: Patterson provides leadership amidst start-of-season adversity

By MADELINE LADD Associate Sports Editor

In a public display of anger and frustration, fifth-year senior offensive lineman and captain Jarrett Patterson stormed off the field after the clock hit zero in Notre Dame’s devastating 26-21 loss to Marshall last month.

Patterson had a rough game at left guard, only adding to his turmoil. Ripping off his jersey and having to be forcibly pulled back for the alma mater seemed inappropriate to many Irish fans — especially for a captain. Nevertheless, as time has passed, Patterson has taken it as a learning situation and described the emotions he felt that day.

“It’s a combination of seeing the disappointment on those guys’ faces after seeing how hard they work, Patterson said. “And then individually for me, just all the rehab I’ve had to go to since March and had to push through and get to the point where I could play.”

Patterson’s history makes it clear why he got especially emotional. He postponed NFL plans to return to Notre Dame for a final season. But he suffered from a torn pectoral muscle in the spring causing himtomisstheOhioStategame.

Coming back for a frustrating Marshall loss was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Nevertheless, Patterson continues to remember why he plays the game.

“A big reason why I came back is because of the guys in that locker room,” Patterson said.

“I love playing next to them, I love our coaches and everything about that place. At the end of the day no matter what I’ve gone through, I still love what I do.”

As the leader of a young but talented offensive line, Patterson was pleased with their performance at UNC. Moving from center to guard this season SARAH GRISHAM | The Observer

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Irish fifth-year senior offensive lineman and captain Jarrett Patterson regroups during the Notre Dame game against UNC. Patterson recognizes and grows from personal and team mistakes against Marshall.