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Election night captivates student attention Students across campus keep vigilant watch as Trump defeats Clinton in presidential election

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A group of students in Ryan Hall gather for an election watch Tuesday night. Throughout the night, students paid close attention to their laptops and TVs as results came in.

SMC president plants Trinity Tree

By MARTHA REILLY Associate Saint Mary’s Editor

Preceding her inauguration this Saturday, College President Jan Cer velli went out on a limb and planted a tree outside Spes Unica Hall on Tuesday, reminding students to remember their roots at the College while also engaging with the tricampus community.

Saint Mar y’s deemed this river birch tree the Trinity Tree because it grows with three connected trunks, symbolizing the Holy Cross congregation’s vision for unity among Saint Mar y’s, Notre Dame and Holy Cross College, according to a press release.

The Trinity Tree will see TRINITY TREE PAGE 4

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NDH staff adjusts to changes

By KATIE GALIOTO News Editor

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Br. Jesus Alonso, College President Jan Cervelli, University President Fr. John Jenkins and Notre Dame student body president Corey Robinson participate in the planting of the Trinity Tree on Tuesday.

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Next semester, North Dining Hall will undergo some big changes. There will be fewer seats, more hours and — eventually — a completely new setup.

And for the dining hall’s 139 staff members, it may mean a change of pace.

In addition to its fivephase renovation plan for the see DINING HALL PAGE 3

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Moira Griffith, a sophomore from Ryan Hall, proudly shows off the fact she voted by holding up an “I Voted” sticker. For most undergraduate students, Tuesday marked the first opportunity to vote in a presidential election.

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Conference to explore beauty, Catholicism

By CIARA HOPKINSON News Writer

Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture will host its annual fall conference, an interdisciplinary exploration of a specific aspect of Catholic tradition, this Thursday through Sunday. This year’s conference, “You Are Beauty,” will address the relationship between imagination, beauty and the Catholic faith.

Ken Hallenius, the Center’s communications specialist, explained the thought process behind choosing this year’s theme.

“This year, knowing that the conference was coming immediately on the heels of the presidential election cycle, we wanted to provide an opportunity for people to

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building, Campus Dining introduced a three-phase staffing plan to redeploy workers during the construction period.

None of the North Dining Hall (NDH) employees will be laid off, director of student dining Scott Kachmarik said.

“We’ve guaranteed all the staff here in North Dining Hall, ‘You’re going to have a

focus on beauty and imagination as a counterpoint to the pervasive angry rhetoric and political infighting,” he said in an email.

Hallenius said the fall conference is Notre Dame’s largest academic conference each year — and “You Are Beauty” is expected to the best-attended conference in its 17year history.

“We expect more than 750 attendees to take part, and we will have 90 presentations during the weekend,” he said.

The fall conference’s speakers consider the topic from a wide variety of approaches, presenting on beauty as expressed through mediums such as music, the human body, food, the planet, architecture, literature and a number of others as well. The

speakers will examine beauty not as simply a physical quality, but a spiritual, intellectual and social one.

“It is amazing to hear, in one place, talks on Dante, biology, sacred music, cooking, architecture, the Vatican Museum, poetry, filmmaking and Tolkien,” Hallenius said.

The Center for Ethics and Culture sent out a call for papers to over 3,500 academics and received over 150 paper proposals; of those, 70 were chosen to be presented, Hallenius said. The conference is broken up into in colloquiums, during which two or three scholars present their papers, and in larger talks followed by questionand-answer sessions.

“We are blessed to have a great representation from

the student population each year,” he said. “ … All of the speaker sessions are open to the entire Notre Dame community, even for those who didn’t pre-register, so we encourage students to come to the talks that interest them.”

Peter Casarella, associate professor of theology, will be speaking on his essay, “The Poetics of Space: The SocioEcological Horizon of the Lived Experience of Beauty.”

The essay focuses on two primary topics: Latinos in the Catholic faith and the principles outlined in Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical, “Via Pulchritudinis.”

“The talk will be about the relationship between the concepts of space and place in beauty,” he said.

Casarella said his talk will

discuss priests in Buenos Aires who often venture into the depressed shantytowns at the edges of the city. He said the priests wrote to members of the city government, asking them to focus on the poor and downtrodden as they worked on improving the city.

For these priests, beauty is found in “the ecology of daily life.”

It is the idea of taking those on the periphery of society into account that is beautiful, he added.

“It isn’t physical beauty at all — there’s nothing beautiful in being poor,” Casarella said. “But wouldn’t there be more beauty in the world if there were more unity? ”

job. And you’re going to be able to keep working through this whole project,” he said.

Instead, Kachmarik said, workers will be reassigned to temporary positions in South Dining Hall (SDH), at the Center for Culinary Excellence (CCE) and in other departments around campus. The Campus Dining leadership team will conduct one-on-one assessments with each employee to determine a good fit for each person.

“If folks say, ‘I want to go

work in Building Services,’ or ‘I want to go work in Athletics,’ this is a time where we can make that happen,” Kachmarik said.

The process is similar to the one used for the Morris Inn renovations back in 2013, he added. When the hotel was closed for eight months, employees filled in at other jobs on campus.

What Notre Dame does is almost unheard of, Kachmarik said.

“If you were to go to New

York City and there was a hotel — or if you were to go to some restaurant here in town — and they were doing a renovation like we’re doing, they would just shut the place down, stop serving and lay everybody off,” he said.

At points when the building is completely closed — such as winter break — Kachmarik said the NDH staff would be encouraged to use their vacation days. Others will likely work on some deep cleaning projects for Campus Dining.

While most of the workers will likely return to NDH after it reopens for the fall semester in 2017, some may find they prefer their new worksites, Kachmarik said.

“It happened at the Morris Inn,” he said. “There were three or four people who got into their positions and just thought it suited them better.”

Starting in January,

Kachmarik estimates that 15 to 20 NDH staff members will be sent to work at South.

“We know there are going to be more people at South,” he said. “A lot of people, if they aren’t feeling lazy, are going to walk to South.”

Though NDH will be able to seat less people, the kitchen area where 90 percent of food is prepared will remain pretty much intact over the course of the renovation, Kachmarik said.

“Our staff is going to be very thoughtful in helping design menus to speed the traffic through during this time period,” he said It’ll be a big change, when everything’s finished. But Kachmarik said he thinks that’s the exciting part.

“The end result is really something,” he said.

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SMC President Jan Cervelli speaks at the ceremony commemorating the Trinity Tree in anticipation of her inauguration Saturday.

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remind people to ref lect on the shared values and interests of the three institutions, Cervelli said.

“Our collection of three campuses is special,” she said. “They’re all beautiful, and they all have the most exciting and engaged intellectual activities on them.”

Cervelli said the Trinity Tree will foster unity while helping Saint Mary’s honor its Holy Cross tradition.

“Blessed Basil Moreau, the founder of the Holy Cross congregation and a guiding light for us today, foresaw that ‘Holy Cross will grow like a mighty tree,’” Cervelli said.

“The Trinity Tree symbolizes the partnership between the tri-campus schools and our commitment to higher education in the Catholic tradition.”

University President Fr. John Jenkins said the Trinity Tree will help preserve the interconnectedness of the three schools.

“The image of a tree is a sign of the relationships between Saint Mary’s, Holy Cross and Notre Dame, which really does go back to the founders of these institutions,” Jenkins said. “A dear friendship, a close friendship, has bonded these institutions for many, many years and will continue to do so.”

Community members thrive when all three campuses support one another, as evidenced by the consistently high work ethic of Saint Mary’s, Notre Dame and Holy Cross students, Jenkins said.

“You can’t force [young people] to be anything, but you try to give them the environment that will allow them to grow and flourish,” Jenkins said.

“We look forward to continuing the work of education that has gone on in this place for almost 175 years, and we look forward to a wonderful future.”

According to Jenkins, the Colleges and University must tend to the needs of their community members just as planters protect and nurture their trees.

“Of itself, kind of mysteriously, [a tree] grows, and that’s true of education,” Jenkins said. “[Moreau] said ‘Education is the art of bringing a young person to completeness.’”

Br. Jesus Alonso, vice president for strategic initiatives at Holy Cross College, said all the branches of Moreau’s religious vision must collaborate for the tri-campus community to reach its full potential.

“When we talk about the Holy Cross tradition, we’re all stronger when we have the sisters, the priests and the brothers working together,” Alonso said. “Blessed Basil Moreau ... saw his religious family as a tree that constantly shoots forth new limbs and branches and is nourished by the same life-giving sap.”

According to Alonso, the Trinity Tree will help students grow in understanding of the rich history of their schools. “[Moreau] dedicated the priests to the sacred heart of Jesus, the sisters to the heart of Mary, the brothers to Saint Joseph and the entire congregation to Mary under the title of Our Lady of Sorrows,” Alonso said. “The threefold relation of father, son and spirit has found true expression in the relation of Saint Mary’s College, Holy Cross College and the University of Notre Dame.”

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By ERIN McAULIFFE Scene Editor

“Easy” is easy to watch. The Netflix series’ short, episodic format and realistic, if “yuppie,” content channel half-hour Instagram stories: aesthetically-curated in a “real-life,” personal way. Shots of The Bean, lattes and brunch flood the series, each episode opens with colorful title art designed by a different artist and episode five even features a selfie artist.

One season of eight half-hour installments, you can watch “Easy” episodes as stand-alone relationship studies and in any order (however, you do need to watch episode three before episode eight — an odd hiccup in the series’ structure).

As someone who didn’t hop on the “Mad Men” bandwagon until after the finale (I know, I know), I’ve been wading through the show’s six seasons of hour-long episodes for years. “Easy,” a Netflix original, is wrapped into a neat one-season package that will requires approximately the same viewing period as a Sad! Notre Dame football game. This is the second Netflix original series to take an episodic approach on a usually binge-reliant platform: “The Characters” gave six comedians free reign over half-hour slots, creating a variety of skit comedy held together only by a similar title sequence.

Although”Easy” has a similar format to “The Characters,” every episode was written and directed by Joe Swanberg in his hometown, Chicago. The show’s

By CHRISTIAN BUNKER Scene Writer

It’s been four years since American pop duo The Chainsmokers formed, and they are still yet to release an album. This kind of wait is by no means unprecedented — 16 years separated the Avalanches’ first and second album — nor would it be unforgivable if their work up to this point showed any promise. At this point, however, it doesn’t seem like the group plans to ever come out with an album. Instead, they will continue to churn out hit singles until they retire and an equally vapid act rises to prominence. Although the duo’s latest release is technically an EP, each of its five tracks were also released as singles. It seems ridiculous to call it anything else, so a collection of singles is what I will evaluate it as.

The collection opens with “Setting Fires,” the newest release and by far the least well known of these five.

The song’s uptempo chorus, dance grooves and house music-inspired outro meet all requirements for a typical Chainsmokers hit, and the first placement of this track seems designed to turn “Setting Fires” into their next big song. However, with a fan base raised on the skip button, I’m skeptical about this strategy, especially since the back end of the EP contains the band’s biggest hits. Whether it catches on or not, however, rest assured that this song easily satisfies the two golden rules of pop music, being both incredibly derivative and endlessly repetitive.

sense of rooted place shines and intrigues, especially as many Notre Dame seniors consider living in the city after school. The episodes shout out Dark Matter coffee, Half Acre brewery and Don’t Fret art, supplying viewers with just enough material to satisfy the “insufferable yuppie” title that The Ringer gave the series based on the “sure sign we’re in the presence of yuppies: Orlando Bloom as a hot dad.”

Speaking of Bloom, the show’s casting is impressive.

Swanberg employed big names for half-hour showings and manages to avoid residual typecasting effects with ease: Aya Cash (a fumbling adult-in-the-making in FX series “You’re The Worst”) acts as a surprisingly “normie,” pregnant character in episodes three and eight. Marc Maron (host of “WTF Podcast”) gets it on with Emily Ratajkowski (model in the “Blurred Lines” video) in episode five.

The series’ character structure resembles “High Maintenance,” a web series turned HBO show — there are some intertwined story lines but as much by the chance of “small world” mentality. Essentially, Swanberg’s direction and development of place function as much to unite episodes as The Guy, “High Maintenance” creator Ben Sinclair’s friendly marijuana deliveryman character.

Swanberg has experience in content that is easy to watch, his film “Kissing on the Mouth” sparked the beginnings of mumblecore, a film genre focused on naturalism that encourages improv amongst conversational “likes” and “umms.” Swanberg has two mumblecore films

currently on Netflix, “Happy Christmas” and “Drinking Buddies.” Although “Easy” is his first foray into television, he called on some actors he’s cast in his films: Orlando Bloom (“Digging for Fire”) and Jake Johnson (“Digging for Fire,” “Drinking Buddies”).

Mumblecore films essentially leave you questioning the outcome and effect of what you just spent an hour and a half watching — and “Easy” does the same.

Episodes end with a character chopping vegetables or Skittles pieces spinning into oblivion.

The realistic aspect of mumblecore is striking at points, especially since I fall into the “Chicago-looking senior” category mentioned earlier. The poignant work-life balance struggles in a city where many of us will soon be working and living is illustrated throughout the series.

In the first episode, a husband and wife struggle to make time for each other between phone calls regarding jobs and kids. In the seventh episode a female actress breaks up with her longtime boyfriend — whom we impressively feel for although we only see him (Jake Johnson) on Skype calls — to pursue new developments in her career.

The relationships examined in “Easy” span relationships, family and friendships, and the proximity of place makes their careful understanding even more poignant.

Take the time to watch this series and jot down notes for how to pursue your own Swanberg-approved “insufferable yuppie,” Instagram story-worthy trip to Chicago.

Moving on to “All We Know,” I was disappointed but not surprised to find a simple riff opening the song, as if “Starving,” “Love Yourself” and “Treat You Better” had not yet provided recent pop with enough amateur guitar playing. Further in, lyrics like “We’re falling apart, still we hold together” sound a little inauthentic from two guys who make Donald Trump’s life look like one of hardship (they make Trump look humble, too — check out their interviews). Musically, the build-up/drop near the 1:15 and 2:40 marks are EDM 101 and lie firmly within the capabilities of any high schooler with GarageBand.

“Closer” opens with a great example of classical conditioning. Whenever I hear those first piano notes at work, my body instantly knows that the next four minutes are going to be excruciating. Before this song became big, I firmly believed that sappy songs about the transience of life were the absolute worst mainstream music had to offer. This remains a compelling thesis — the likes of Trace Adkin’s “You’re Gonna Miss This,” Five for Fighting’s “100 Years” and Kenny Chesney’s “Don’t Blink” are good evidence of that — but “Closer” made me realize that songs that flatly deny the transience of life are even worse. “We ain’t ever getting older,” the song ridiculously declares. I don’t know about that, but the Chainsmokers’ music certainly isn’t maturing.

By the time “Inside Out” arrives, we’re on our fourth song and fourth feature. The purpose of features is to diversify the music by bringing in another artist to add

a different dimension to the song. When all five songs feature a very similar sounding female vocalist, it kind of defeats the point. This reflects the main problem with “Inside Out,” which is that it sounds like every other Chainsmokers song.

I will admit that “Don’t Let Me Down” is the one decent song of these five. The intro is strong and the tune is catchy, but the fact that the song’s title is repeated no less than 35 times reveals that this song is nothing more than catchy. As the track concludes, I’m tempted to complain that all these guys could muster for what is only their second EP is eighteen minutes of already-released music.

However, the alternative to this is for there to be more Chainsmokers music, which would be far worse.

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“Collage” The Chainsmokers Label: Columbia Tracks: “Closer,” “Don’t Let Me Down” If you like: Major Lazer, Avicii, DJ Snake

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Inside Column

Election season Manny De Jesus Sports Writer

It’s over.

After a year and a half of scandals, lies and cringe-worthy soundbites from both candidates, the presidential election is finally over.

Let’s be honest, this year’s race wasn’t met with ver y many positive or inspiring moments pointing to a promising future in U.S politics, and many are rightfully concerned about how this election will change the landscape of politics down to the local level. Now that it’s all said and done, it would probably be best that we avoid another hectic election between two ver y polarizing candidates.

Despite it all, there are indeed positives to take away from what we have witnessed in the past year or so. There’s a wide range of answers that a person can give when asked what the positives of the election were, but objectively speaking, there’s one positive that many have continued to take for granted: For yet another election, ever y single person in this countr y had a say in who should be the leader of this countr y.

It’s seems simple and insignificant at first, but the simple fact that we can vote for our leaders is something that we should continually appreciate and recognize regardless of how terrible the candidates are. Unlike several countries around the world, we can have open debates on the news, on social media, on university campuses and at home about politics and who we think is most fit to sit in the W hite House.

Unfortunately for people who live in countries like North Korea, Somalia, Libya, and Sudan, among others, they don’t have the option to sit and debate about who should lead their countr y because they don’t have the option to pick.

Many of these countries are either outright dictatorships or are in such political turmoil that elite, powerful families step in to take advantage of a state of political corruption. In Latin America, there are several countries who are continually dominated by the same few families that have been in power for decades, and while elections are open to the public, the candidates to choose from have already been decided by the corrupt parties that run the government.

Just recently in Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega won his fourth term in office in an election that U.S State Department officials have said was concerning. Ortega reportedly won the election with 72 percent of the votes, but officials have said that Ortega, who changed the constitution to allow for a president to run for more than two terms in 2014, has made the elections difficult for the opposition to compete. Keep in mind that his wife also won the vice presidency. In Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez has done the same in extending the number of terms a president can hold and is looking to win a third term in office next year. Despite the corruption, nothing is done about it and life goes on in these countries.

So while many of us struggled to get through this election season, let’s remember how lucky we are to even have the choice to decide who we want to lead our countr y.

Contact Manny De Jesus at mdejesus@nd.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

What has silence cost you?

This election year has proved particularly polarizing on salient issues of difference; civ ilit y and discourse around challenging topics no longer seems to be a priorit y. Often we are left wondering, can we still talk? Or is it better to remain silent?

W hile it might be more comfortable to not talk about issues of diversit y and inclusion, it hurts all of us.

The harm done by silence can be more than interpersonal — it can make an entire campus indifferent. W hether the silence has been driven by stigma or a fear of shame, it is more important than ever to confront it. Race, gender, class, religious identities, sexual assault, menta l health, socioeconomic status, disabilit y: these easily become absorbed by negative fields of silence. We should strive to cultivate a culture that opens up spaces for v ulnerabilit y and difficult, albeit oh so necessar y, conversations.

That is why this year, Show Some Skin, a student-run production that combines the arts of personal stor y telling and performance to give voice to unspoken stories, asks: what has silence cost you?

Show Some Skin’s stor y collecting process centers around encouraging members of the Notre Dame communit y to step out of the safe zones, to encourage and nurture people being okay w ith uncomfortable conversations. The show encourages us to proudly step into the spotlight as the most honest versions of ourselves. To stand in that spotlight, and celebrate something we are so quick to shy away from: v ulnerabilit y. The stories that are told through Show Some Skin are w ithout barriers, and the name of the show itself instructs us to lay bare the thing we are most afraid to share.

Ever yone has a stor y, yet so many go untold.

W hy? Perhaps it’s because you are trained to conv ince yourself that there’s always someone who has it worse than you. Or maybe you feel ashamed of the stor y you have to tell. Or maybe

you don’t think anyone w ill care enough to listen. Maybe you think you aren’t justifed in feeling what you feel. But your stor y is va luable, and don’t do yourself a disser v ice by think ing other w ise. Our emotions embody judgments about the world; the significance in the role they play in each of our lives should not be neglected.

The stories you have trusted us w ith, Notre Dame communit y, have been hilarious, a larming, poetic, full of pain, full of hope, and above a ll, honest. They are filled w ith fighting words.

W hen we read your monologues, above a ll, we are honored you trusted us and our show w ith them. We can only hope to do them justice.

Without your stories, there is no show.

Even now, si x years after the show’s creation, we are continua lly in awe of the impact Show Some Sk in has had in our communit y and how much room we still have for grow th. We hope to continue to support and expand the mission is to be a cata lyst for the campus communit y’s discover y and appreciation of Notre Dame’s true diversit y. Discover y and appreciation are words that describe the process by which we absorb the world around us, and grow into it ourselves. A world full of people and perspectives entirely different from ourselves. So when we fail to ta lk and listen, we are building a wa ll around ourselves.

We cha llenge you to brea k the silence. To engage in conversation. To find the ba lance bet ween listening and sharing. The goa l of a conversation is not to bicker, not to prove, nor to w in. It is w ith this in mind that we ask you, members of the Notre Dame communit y, to start by sharing your stor y.

Let’s build conversations, not wa lls.

Leah Jacob and Natasha Reifenberg Show Some Skin Executive co-producers Nov. 7

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It doesn’t matter who wins Jack Rooney Irish Eyes

It doesn’t matter who wins this presidential election.

I’ll be following the results from Ireland, where polls won’t close until 11 p.m. at the earliest, so I have to submit this column before I know who wins any way. But it really doesn’t matter.

In most election cycles, politicians and pundits frame the race for the W hite House as a duel between two competing visions for the country’s future. As you probably know by now, though, this isn’t most election cycles.

I’ve seen so many people post and heard so many others say that they will be so happy, so relieved when the election is over. There’s a sense that when the polls close and a winner is declared, all the chaos, hate and anger that have come to define the campaign will end. I don’t think it will.

This campaign officially began 595 days ago when Texas Sen. Ted Cruz became the first of 17 Republicans and 23 major party candidates. And in these nearly 20 months of campaigning, we as a country have seen less of a dignified competition between ideas for the future and more of an ugly brawl between self-inf lated egos. It’s naive to think that such a prolonged, nasty fight will end calmly and quietly, and equally starry-eyed to think that the problems the campaign has revealed to us will be solved with the election of a new president. So no, it doesn’t really matter who wins.

Okay, it matters a little. Perhaps I’ve been inf luenced by such a hyperbolic campaign. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump represent two drastically different visions not only of our country’s future, but also of its current state. Regardless of who we elect, though, the biggest story of this

election is not who wins, but how he or she responds to the polarization their campaigns have both shown and sown.

The final national NBC/Wall Street Journal poll taken before the election found that 64 percent of Americans feel the election has made the country more divided. Only 23 percent said it has made us more united. And 62 percent said the election makes them less proud of the country, compared to 12 percent who said the same before the 2008 election.

Count me among those six in 10 Americans who feel less proud and more divided following the campaign. Over the last year and a half, we have seen politics at its worst. We have seen people v ying for the nation’s highest office demonize entire groups of people based on race and religion.

We have seen them distort the truth and spout blatant lies over and over again. And somewhere along the way, the media became the scapegoat for the nation’s problems and attacks on “political correctness” became appallingly acceptable ways to abandon civility and kindness toward one another.

The next president will have largely contributed to these problems, but the country will turn to him or her to solve them. At the same time, it also appears likely that the next president will win the election without a mandate, and thus face intense opposition from a huge portion of the country.

So, when it comes to easing the polarization this election season has put front and center, it doesn’t really matter who wins.

So, it may seem that 2016 has made a cynic out of this generally optimistic millennial. Well, not quite. The campaign has shown me, and my generation, that we need to start now and never stop working to bring our country together. This is a herculean task, but a vital one.

So how do we do it?

In a recent video produced by the College of

Arts and Letters, political science department chair professor David Campbell gives us the foundation of an answer when he brief ly explains the link between civic engagement and polarization.

“As people pulled back out of civic life, out of community involvement, it has led to the rise of a form of political or ideological extremism dominating our political system,” Campbell says in the video.

I’ve heard this message before. I took my political science senior seminar with Campbell last year. We spent the semester studying U.S. presidential elections and how candidates, parties and voters interact to elect a new leader. At the end of the semester, though, Campbell left us with a haunting message. He told our class of 19 that polarization is the single biggest challenge facing our democracy today.

“This is not a problem for other people,” he told us. And he was right. It is up to us — as Notre Dame students, young people, citizens — to seek common ground and build upon it, refusing to let polarization define us. It’s up to us to turn outward and involve ourselves in civic life — through our churches, schools and governments, as Campbell suggests — in the pursuit of a more unified country.

So, it doesn’t really matter who’s elected. The next president will not solve this country’s polarization problem. Only we can do that. It’s not a problem for other people. It’s a problem for We the People.

Jack Rooney is a 2016 Notre Dame graduate, and The Observer’s former managing editor. He is currently spending a year living and working for the University in Ireland, and writes these columns to keep him busy and satisfy his need for journalism. Follow Jack on Twitter @ RooneyReports and/or email him at jrooney1@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Immigration: a consequential topic Imagine you’re young again. You’re a 13-year-old girl and you’ve got your innocence, you’re curious and your whole life is ahead of you. Imagine now that you live in a majorit y-Muslim countr y. Imagine your father sells you into marriage w ith a 35-year-old man. Imagine your mother is almost beaten to death because she tries to stop your father, and she f lees to another countr y. You won’t talk to her for eight years. Imagine now that your new husband brings you to nightclubs, forcing you into prostitution for his ow n profit. Imagine your escape efforts — sometimes even to other countries, only to be caught and beaten. Imagine this goes on for over seven years until you are finally able to escape. You escape to another countr y and track dow n your mother who is now a U.S. citizen. She books you a f light, and you enter the United States as a v isitor.

You have finally made it to the U.S., where your mother is a citizen by v irtue of her bona fide marriage to a citizen. Your v isitor status expires in just a few months — at which point you become an overstay, or “out of status.” Some might call you an “illegal immigrant.” You have no high school or college education, because your youth was robbed from you.

Imagine there is no form of immigration relief available to you. You aren’t an “immediate relative” of a U.S. citizen because you are over the age of 21. You aren’t eligible for asylum because you don’t fall into the overly restrictive categories of recognized v ictim groups. You aren’t a

“v ictim of human trafficking” according to the Department of Homeland Securit y, because you didn’t arrive in the U.S. as a direct result of human trafficking. Your options: go “home,” stay. If you go home, your father likely finds you because you have no friends, family, money, education, skills and nowhere to go. If you stay, you may not work. If you are ever caught, you might go to jail — or be at risk of deportation. It does not matter that your mom is a U.S. citizen.

Imagine this isn’t a hy pothetical. Imagine that girl — still waiting out of status, hoping that one of the applications she sent in to Homeland Securit y w ill stick, because truth-be-told, she really doesn’t fit in any of the categories.

Cases like this are not rare, unfortunately. In my time working w ith an immigration attorney I saw many cases where common sense would say, “of course this person should be allowed to stay here,” but the hy per-complex immigration code said other w ise. My purpose for w riting this is not to ruff le feathers or to conv ince readers of any thing. I merely w rite to inspire compassion when considering such a consequential topic.

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Diplomacy will be required this year when dealing with delicate situations. Offer love, peace and plenty of understanding when dealing with loved ones. Refuse to let the past come back to haunt you or you will miss out on what lies ahead. Change can be a beautiful thing if you are innovative and let your intuition guide you.

Your numbers are 2, 12, 23, 26, 34, 41, 43.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Keep a clear head. Emotional situations will interfere with your logic and reasoning, causing you to make poor assumptions and choices. Focus on personal enhancement and spending more time with someone you love.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Partnerships will take an emotional turn. Before you jump to conclusions, ask questions and listen carefully to what’s being said. Nothing will be as it appears. Use what you know and do your best to advance.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’ll face some deception from others, so make sure you get all your facts straight before you proceed. A problem with a partnership will surface if promises aren’t carried out. Focus inward and work on personal improvements.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Live, learn and build on what you have already accomplished. A partnership that gives you the strength and courage to embrace change and try new things shouldn’t be ignored. Make the most of the time you have been given.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’ll be torn between spending and saving when it comes to entertainment and home improvements. Trying to please everyone will be impossible. Consider the most cost-efficient ways to proceed, and do your best to keep the peace.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Dividing your time between personal and professional responsibilities will be difficult, but organization, precision and paying attention to detail will help. Use your persuasiveness and patience in order to keep the peace.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You have to put yourself first. Be honest about what you want and need in your life and make the changes that will help you reach your personal goals. Network with people who enjoy the same things as you.

Romance is highlighted.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Lay out your plans and strategize to finetune what you want to pursue. Think outside the box and let your creative imagination lead to new and innovative ways to use your skills. Don’t let an emotional situation hinder your progress.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Dealing with institutions, government agencies or underhanded individuals are all discouraged. Keep your personal information a secret or someone will use it to manipulate you. Focus on personal, financial and physical gains. Work hard and do your best.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Emotional spending is never a good idea.

When you are feeling down, lock your credit cards in a safe place. Making snap decisions or letting someone else’s actions prompt you to make a move is discouraged. Concentrate on honing your skills.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): An emotional situation will escalate if you get into a deep discussion with someone. Getting involved in an event that brings out the best in you will result in meeting someone you can learn from. Choose reason over emotion.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’ll come across a good investment if you reconnect with someone you have worked with in the past. Take better care of your health by getting sufficient rest, exercise and proper diet. You’ll miss out if minor illness takes over.

Birthday Baby: You are perceptive, curious and novel. You are intense and determined.

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NFL refs ignoring player safety Ben Padanilam Associate Sports Editor

For a long time, the NFL has been criticized for its lack of concern for player safety.

All one needs to do is look to the way the league refused to recognize the dangerous and potentially fatal consequences of repeated head trauma for players during their careers. It put the brand of the NFL, and the potential damage such an admission could do to that brand, before the players themselves.

But as of late, the NFL has made it a point to address the issues it long ignored. Now, independent neurologists patrol the sidelines should players suffer a head injury during games and need to be checked out. The concussion protocol, while perhaps not perfect, has been bolstered as time has progressed.

Yet, despite these changes, we continue to see examples of player safety in games ignored, particularly as referees fail to protect players during games. One only needs to look to the cases of Cam Newton and, as of Monday, Dan Carpenter to see this is the case.

In Monday night’s game, Buffalo Bills kicker Dan Carpenter was hit at below the waist on a field goal attempt by Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman after a whistle had already ruled the play dead. Sherman had been called offsides, claimed to not hear the whistle that blew the play dead and proceeded to take out Carpenter.

Regardless of whether the play by Sherman was intentional or not, it clearly met the standard that has been set for a roughing the kicker penalty. But no call was made by the referees. Fortunately, Carpenter was okay, but the lack of a f lag in an obvious case of a penalty by rule is concerning. Sure, this incident was an isolated case, but it establishes a precedent: Players are rewarded, rather than penalized, for

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aggressive play that could lead to serious injury when penalties are not enforced.

More concerning is the case of Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, who has repeatedly drawn hits to his helmet while in the pocket this season. In just about any other case, these hits on quarterbacks consistently draw roughing the passer penalties due to the added emphasis on protecting the very players who are iconic of their teams and the league.

But for Newton, these hits — one need only watch a Panthers game from this season or any of the highlights of their games to find an example — have failed to be treated the same way. As a 6-foot-5, 245-pound mobile quarterback, Newton is treated as a runner rather than a passer. While such treatment by referees is fair when he is in fact outside the pocket, treating him that way when he stays in the pocket is subjecting him to the repeated head trauma that the league claims to be protecting its players against.

By refusing to throw the f lags they should, referees are putting Newton at greater risk than he already is for head trauma as a quarterback because — as the case with Carpenter — it sets a precedent for players to continue to illegally target Newton without fear of drawing a penalty for it. And we know this to be the case by the very fact it is already a precedent, one which Newton has spoken out against with the hopes of garnering equal treatment as his fellow quarterback brethren receive.

These issues all point to the real problem: Until the NFL addresses the failures and shortcomings of its referees, player safety will continue to be disregarded by all those involved.

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No. 5 Breen-Phillips, 18-0

By ELIZABETH GREASON Sports Writer

No. 1 Welsh Family shutout No. 5 Breen-Phillips 18-0 in an anticipated matchup on Tuesday evening.

The defending champion Whirlwinds (6-1) dominated on both sides of the ball, as they were able to overcome the Babes (4-3) and keep them off the board.

Welsh Family scored twice in the first half on pass plays to give it a solid lead going into halftime.

The Whirlwinds added to their lead in the final minutes of the game when they were able to pick up another touchdown, the final score of the game, on a long run.

Babes senior captain Emily Affinito said she was proud of her team’s performance this season and believes that in future seasons they will be able to continue this year’s success.

“Overall, I’m just proud of the team for making it this far,” Affinito said. “Obviously the game didn’t go the way we wanted it to, but [Breen-Phillips] has never made it this far, so that’s already a win in my mind. It was a great group to go out with for my senior season, and I know that BP Team 2016 will not be forgotten.”

While the Babes’ playoff berth has come to an end, top-seeded Welsh Family will attempt to defend its title in the championship game when it takes on No. 3 Ryan

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Sachire said. “The tournament in Minnesota was chalk full of lineup players — players that will play for teams in the NCAA tournament — so it was a really good gauge of competition, and I thought we did a really good job of getting ourselves to the point in matches where we were on the doorstep of winning. The downside was we didn’t close out matches the way we need to during the spring, so we had a lot of situations where guys were in a position to control the match and they couldn’t close them out.

So that’s the good and the bad right there. We were in a position to win a lot of matches, and we didn’t finish the way we are capable of.”

Sachire said one thing they will work to improve upon is how his players serve the ball at the beginning of a set.

“I think the aspects of what we need in those pressure-packed

in a West Quad battle on Nov. 20 at 2:45 p.m. at Notre Dame Stadium.

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No. 3 Ryan def. No. 7 Badin, 19-6

By MIA BERRY Sports Writer

No. 3 Ryan’s fast start allowed it to overcome No. 7 Badin, 19-6.

Ryan started the game out strong when senior quarterback Kathleen Conaty threw two touchdowns to senior receiver and captain Emily Tessitore to give Ryan a 12-0 lead at the end of the first quarter.

Badin rebounded when senior defensive back Nicole Handa intercepted the ball, and senior quarterback and captain Rachel Wimsatt capitalized with a touchdown pass to freshman Emma Bzik to cut Ryan’s lead to six.

Late in the fourth quarter, Conaty ran in a 40-yard touchdown and converted on an extrapoint attempt to give Ryan a 19-6 lead with three minutes remaining in the fourth. The Bullfrogs marched down the field until Ryan came up with the interception, ending the drive and the comeback attempt.

Senior Ryan captain Shawn Hall said she was thrilled that the Wildcats will be playing in the stadium. “[It] feels super exciting to play

moments where you are trying to close out a match, and it starts with the serve when you are serving for a match,” Sachire said. “I felt like that was an area where we did not do a great job. We did not serve well as a team this past weekend, so I think up and down the line is the most important shot in tennis and is something we have to improve upon from now to January.”

When asked who stood out to him over the weekend, Sachire mentioned Rayl, Kempin and Gamble in particular.

“I think you have to start with Daniel Rayl, a sophomore on our team,” Sachire said. “He had a great tournament. I think he lost his first singles match then won his next three, and him and Brendan Kempin went 3-1 in doubles as well. I think they both did a really good job. Danny especially did a really good job in singles.

Another person who had a good weekend was Matt Gamble. Matt went undefeated in singles and beat a couple of high level players, which was great to see. I think

at the stadium,” Hall said. “Emily and I both played there as freshmen, and we didn’t win so it would be a great opportunity for us to get some revenge and end our interhall careers on a high note.”

Tessitore attributed her team’s success to offensive execution.

“Offensively, we just wanted to stay true to us, and the only time we got in trouble is when we started to freak out, and in the second half we calmed down, executed and played football the way we know how to,” Tessitore said.

Wimsatt was proud of her team’s performance despite the wet conditions.

“I’m really proud of the girls,” Wimsatt said. “Our defense pulled it together and did the best they could for us. They gave us all the opportunities. Offense was harder to play today. It was windy, raining, cold, the ball was wet.”

Although Badin lost in the semifinals, Wimsatt said she is optimistic about the future of Bullfrog football.

“It’s always sad to see the season end, but I’m really proud of this team, and how far they’ve come, and I’m very excited about their future in flag football,” Wimsatt said.

The Wildcats take on No. 1 Welsh Family on Nov. 20 at 2:45 p.m. at Notre Dame Stadium.

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those young guys stood out in terms of probably having the best tournaments that they’ve had to date at this point in the fall.”

Notre Dame now enters a twomonth vacation from matches.

Their next match will be Jan. 20 against Ball State to begin the spring season. Sachire said he will continue to monitor his players as they begin to work on their game individually.

“We’re still going to be able to train and work with our guys on a much more limited basis than we were previously, and they’ll have to do a lot more practicing on their own,” Sachire said.

“A lot of our success early in the year is going to be determined by the work our guys put in on their own over the next couple of months. Fortunately, our team has a great culture and our guys do work hard on their own, and that’s going to be necessary for us to start the way we want to start in January.”

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due to having new setters in the lineup.

“Pass better, set better, hit better,” McLaughlin said. “You know, there’s a little different rhythm change with our setters. That just comes with the territory. Those kids were thrown into action and they did a good job, but we just have to improve and get those hitting percentages up.”

Junior setter Taylor Zwickl saw her first action of the season over the weekend as she returned from injury. Zwickl spent the majority of the season as junior setter Caroline Holt’s backup, but when Holt went down with a fractured leg, Zwickl was already

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team in Nav y, and they know that they’ve gotta prepare in a manner that allows them to go out there mentally and physically beat their opponent.”

Though the Irish led at halftime and pulled within one point of the Midshipmen in the fourth quarter, Nav y was ultimately able to limit the Irish to just six offensive possessions. In the second half, Nav y held the ball for over 20 minutes, and when facing Army, Kelly said third down is a key for his team.

“Obviously, we have to focus on third down,” Kelly said. “We gotta get off the field. We had a number of third-down situations where we didn’t get off the field.

And we have to stay on the field on third down. We can’t have a foolish penalty. And so those right there are extremely important. In the red zone, we can’t settle for field goals, we have to score touchdowns. So those two right there probably stand out for me. Let’s say it is a six-possession game, we can still win the football game if we get off the field on third down and we’re more efficient in the red zone and we don’t have a foolish penalty.”

In order to get more possessions against Army, Kelly said he may look to throw the ball more, in order to get quick scoring opportunities.

W hile the running game can be successful against an undersized defense like Nav y or Army, Kelly said the running game often takes too much time off of the clock.

“And yeah, they’re going to give you some room, but they’re going to tr y to minimize big plays,” Kelly said.

“So yeah, you scored five times, but it took you too much time. You know what I mean? So it’s a double-edged sword. You run the football, yeah, maybe you could knock

injured, leaving the offense in the hands of freshman setter Hanna Klein and sophomore outside hitter Rebecca Nunge for two matches. McLaughlin said having Zwickl back on the court with Klein will make a difference for the Irish offensively going forward, as it allows Nunge to return to her usual role as a hitter.

“It allows us to have [Zwickl] play a position she’s used to playing, and then it also allows Nunge to play her role that she’s been playing all year instead of being a setter too,” McLaughlin said. “Now, she can focus on being a hitter and a blocker, so that allows Nunge to play at a higher level. And then, Taylor — she didn’t get many reps and we threw her right in there, and I thought she did a good job and she’s

just gonna keep getting better with more opportunities.”

Earlier this season, the Irish swept the Cardinals (8-16, 3-11) on Sept. 23 at home, which McLaughlin said could give the Irish some additional confidence going into Wednesday’s matchup. However, he also emphasized that most of the team’s confidence will stem from their preparation for the match.

“I think confidence is more a function of knowing what you need to do and preparation, believing, ‘Hey, we’re getting good at this,’” McLaughlin said. “Winning and losing affects it a little bit, but I think just having a good week in practice is the most important thing.”

One key to the Louisville match will be minimizing

errors, something Notre Dame has focused on throughout the season. It struggled against Duke in this category, posting 22 attack errors. McLaughlin said the most effective way to reduce errors is to play smart. “[We have to] just stay in rhythm better and make better shots,” McLaughlin said. “And then, not to get hurt on a tough swing. You know, we got hurt on some tough swings — that was uncharacteristic, but the thing that I did like is that we were aggressive. But, you’ve got to be intelligent, and they have to understand that.”

With a win over the Cardinals, the Irish would be posting their first 20-win season since 2012 and have already secured their best season in the ACC yet. Notre Dame’s goal at the start of the season

was to win the ACC, according to McLaughlin; however, the Irish currently sit in fifth place in the conference. McLaughlin said even though the regular season is beginning to come to a close, his team is going to keep working and improving to finish the season even stronger than it started.

“We gotta just build on the foundation of the program,” McLaughlin said. “We’ve gotta get better and keep investing high in every position. You know, we don’t have much time left, so we’ve just got to keep grinding.”

The Irish will take on the Cardinals at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky, at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

them off the ball, but it’s going to take you a little while to score. ... By the time you look up it’s the third quarter and you’ve got five possessions or four possessions.

So you gotta balance all of those things as you’re tr ying to decide how to play a game against Nav y.”

to Dr. [Jeffrey] Kutcher, who has been really good as a resource for us, so we’ll have that appointment set up this week.”

Junior safety Drue Tranquill and freshman cornerback Julian Love both suffered head injuries Saturday, but Kelly said both hoped to practice Tuesday in non-contact roles and look to be cleared to fully participate in Wednesday’s session.

with a broad brush.” “... We had, I felt, the wind and [with] the game circumstances at that time, it felt

like the right thing to do.”

Injuries Last week, junior defensive lineman Daniel Cage did not play against the Midshipmen due to his not having cleared the concussion protocol.

Tuesday, Kelly said Cage was going to see another doctor to receive additional treatment. “[Daniel] Cage we’re going to send for further evaluation,” Kelly said. “He’s made some progress, but anytime that somebody’s in their second week and has not fully gone through the stages as we see them, we’d like to get a second opinion and make sure that ever ything is good. So we generally go

Field goal decision Kelly again clarified his decision to go for a field goal with 7:28 left in the fourth quarter facing fourthand-4 on Nav y’s 14 yard-line Tuesday.

“I think each play is a little bit different, each game is a little bit different in terms of circumstances,” Kelly said.

“I think what’s most important is getting the feel for each game in terms of what is needed to what I thought was needed to win a game.

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ND sees success in two events

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For the second straight week, Notre Dame will go up against the triple option, as the Irish face Army on Saturday in San Antonio.

Coming off a 28-27 loss to Navy this past weekend, Irish head coach Brian Kelly said his team’s mentality needed to go up against a run-first offense remains the same.

“We understand the demands that playing option football takes on our players, and I make sure that our schedule ref lects the kind of needs that they have during the week,” Kelly said. “But [it will be a] tough game.

You better be ready, because they’re tough-minded individuals at Army. So we’ll be smart with our players, but they know what’s in store.

They just finished playing a very tough-minded football

Notre Dame competed in both the National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship in Flushing, New York, and the Gopher Invitational in Minneapolis to close out its fall season.

At the National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship, the doubles pair of seniors Josh Hagar and Eddy Covalschi lost their first tournament match, but they were able to emerge victorious in their final two in order to win the First-Round doubles consolation bracket.

On Friday at the Gopher Invitational, the Irish saw singles wins by freshmen Guillermo Cabrera, Johnathan Small and Matt Gamble and doubles wins by the duo of junior Brendon Kempin and sophomore Daniel Rayl as well as the pair of Small and Cabrera.

On Saturday, Irish tennis players won a total of 11 singles matches.

Sophomore Grayson Broadus, sophomore Nathan Griffin, Gamble and Kempin each won two

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Irish junior safety Drue Tranquill grabs a Midshipmen player during Notre Dame’s 28-27 loss to Navy on Saturday.

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The fall season came to an end for Notre Dame this past weekend with a pair of invitational competitions.

The Irish split the squad this past weekend, competing in the Dick Vitale Intercollegiate Clay Court Classic in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, and also hosting the Notre Dame Invitational at the Courtney Tennis Center, where they faced off against Denver, Kansas and Illinois.

On Friday at the Dick Vitale Classic, senior Monica Robinson dropped her first set, 6-3, before winning her final two sets — 6-4, 6-2 — to advance to the open singles round of 16, where she eventually fell. After falling in the open singles round of 32, senior Mary Closs won her round of 16 consolation match — 7-5, 6-2 — before losing again the consolation quarterfinals. In the doubles consolation round of 16, the doubles pair of Closs and Robinson lost a close match, 8-7(5).

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matches, while sophomore Alex Lebedev, Small and Rayl rounded out the final three wins. In doubles, the pairs of Kempin and Rayl, Gamble and Lebedev and Broadus and Griffin each came away with victories.

Irish head coach Ryan Sachire said he believes his team played well in the big picture.

“Certainly, there were a lot of positives and every one of our guys had significant moments where they did a lot of great things and showed the ability to perform really well,” Sachire said. “But with the same token, everyone showed some flaws and some things they have to work on over the next couple of months before we begin our dual-match season in January.”

Sachire said he likes how his team performed against the level of competition they faced but added that his team needs to work on closing out matches.

“I thought we did a really good job of putting ourselves in a position to beat a lot of good players,”

Dame Invitational, the Irish were powered by singles wins from freshman Zoe Spence, sophomore Rachel Chong and juniors Allison Miller and Brooke Broda. The doubles pair of Spence and Broda were also victorious in the doubles competition against Denver.

On Saturday, Miller and freshman Bess Waldram grabbed singles wins while Broda and Miller won their doubles match against Kansas. In the doubles competition against Illinois, the pair of senior Jane Fennelly and Waldram emerged victorious in their match.

On Sunday, the Irish were able to take five of the seven singles matches they played against Illinois — the first time in the three matches the Irish won the singles competition — as Chong, Waldrum, Spence, Miller and Broda were able to claim victories in their matches.

The Irish will not play in another match until Jan. 22 when they host Western Michigan and Wright State to open their spring season at the Eck Tennis Pavilion.

Irish look to eliminate errors in Louisville

By ELIZABETH GREASON Sports Writer

Coming off a 3-1 loss to Duke on Sunday, Notre Dame will take a midweek road trip to Louisville to take on the Cardinals on Wednesday.

While playing a match in the middle of the week is not typical of Notre Dame’s schedule, Irish head coach Jim McLaughlin said he believes this week’s irregular schedule will not affect his team, despite the fact they will be playing on less rest and preparation than usual.

“You just adjust,” McLaughlin said. “You know, we’ve always said, it’s not where we play, when we play [or] who we play. It’s how we play.

You’ve just gotta flip the switch and go.”

Despite splitting last weekend with a win over Wake Forest and a loss to the Blue Devils (18-6, 12-2 ACC), the Irish (19-7, 10-4) struggled with an uncharacteristically low hitting percentage in both matches, hitting .275 against the Demon Deacons (9-16, 5-9) and just .103 against Duke. McLaughlin said the Irish have a lot to work on in order to improve this percentage, in part see VOLLEYBALL PAGE 10

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Irish sophomore outside hitter Rebecca Nunge attacks at the net during Notre Dame’s 3-1 win over Duke on Sept. 30 at Purcell Pavilion.