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Tuesday
“Extremes of the Planets”
Jordan Hall of Science
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Free but ticketed space demonstration.
Men’s Basketball vs. Fort Wayne Purcell Pavillion
9 p.m.
The Irish take on the Mastodons.
Wednesday
A Food Truck Christmas Fieldhouse Mall
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Enjoy free food and decorate a tree.
ND Women’s Basketball vs. UConn Purcell Pavillion
7 p.m.
The No. 2 Irish take on the No. 1 Huskies.
Thursday
Last Day of Classes campus wide all day
Last class day of the Fall semester at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s.
Feast of the Immaculate Conception Basilica of the Sacred Heart
5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Friday
Study at the Snite Museum
Snite Museum of Art
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Coffee and snacks available in the atrium.
President’s
2 p.m. - 4:30 p.m All faculty and staff welcome to celebrate.
Saturday
What and When Was the Christmas Star? Jordan Hall of Science
7 p.m. - 8 p.m. An astrophysics perspective.
Hockey vs. Boston
Professor to examine solar system, space travel
By LUCAS MASIN-MOYER news Writer
From the time that humans first gazed up into the night sky to the launch of the first artificial satellites to n eil a rmstrong’s first steps on the moon to present day attempts for humans to reach m ars, the solar system has captivated the minds of those both young and old.
Jonathan c rass, postdoctoral research associate, will discuss the the wonders of the solar system Tuesday night in Jordan h all of s cience in his lecture “ e xtremes of the Planets.”
This is the last in a series of the physics department’s public lectures titled, “ o ur
Universe r evealed.” There will be two editions of this talk at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
c rass said this event was targeted at audiences of all ages, especially children wanting to learn about science.
“Twice a semester, [we] have an all-ages event for family-friendly kids events,” he said. “ s ometimes we do hands on events with lots of demos in the galleria — the main part of Jordan h all. This time we’re doing it more as a talk.”
c rass said the lecture would be geared towards teaching children about outer space.
“ i t’s really designed to show the environment on
Pittman said the best way to combat worried thoughts is to keep busy.
worry and overthinking can cause stress, and that stress is directly related to certain parts of the brain.
“The part of the brain called the cortex is what people tend to think of when they think of the brain,” Pittman said. “[The cortex] contains hundreds and hundreds of channels, and some of these are ‘worry channels.’ Those worried thoughts increase anxiety.”
“Turn worry into a plan,” Pittman said. “ s et goals like reading something this night, and looking over notes the next night. Try and do what you can, don’t strive for perfection, and don’t argue with your thoughts. We have control over them, but we can’t just change the channel, it takes time.”
Pittman said another great way to reduce stress is through exercising.
“The amygdala is the part
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different planets and places in the solar system,” c rass said. “[ i will be] showing how materials and things like that exist in those environment and what happens to them.”
a ccording to c rass, future space travel and how it would be experienced by astronauts will also be a topic of discussion at the event.
“[ i will talk about] sending astronauts to m ars, what kind of environments would they have to deal with — so what kind of spacesuits have to undergo intense environments, temperatures and pressures,” c rass said.
This is the second year that c rass will be delivering this lecture at n otre d ame.
of the brain responsible for the fight-or-flight response, and it is triggered by large amounts of stress,” Pittman said, “The amygdala is not logical. i t thinks that the right answer when worried is to run away, so exercising is a good way to trick your amygdala into settling down. When i ’m really stressed, i go from my car to the office in the morning as fast as i can because if your amygdala thinks you’ve escaped, it will calm down, and ultimately calm yourself down. e ven a brisk walk on a
c rass said he also delivered a similar lecture while he was a graduate student at c ambridge University in the United Kingdom.
e xamining the solar system is nothing new for c rass, whose research centers around the construction of telescope parts.
c rass, along with Justin c repp, assistant professor of physics, is working on the iLocator, a spectrometer which will search the night sky for new stars and solar systems.
c repp said this search helps him to gain greater insight into the solar system and the planets.
“ i f we think about earth and our environment here
treadmill for 20 minutes can calm the amygdala down.”
b auer said prayer and meditation are two other good sources of stress relief.
“Prayer — if you pray — is a great stress reliever,” b auer said. “a nything with calming thoughts that gets you to sit down and focus on something other than your worries is great for relieving stress.”
b auer said as a professor, she tries to alleviate her students’ stress as much as she can and feels other professors can do the same.
“Professors can help students de-stress, especially before an exam,” b auer said. “They can dim the lights so the lighting’s not too harsh. They could even play some ocean wave music to relax everyone before an exam.”
Pittman said that before finals, students should get all the sleep they can.
“The amygdala can become unstable without enough sleep, which can cause an increase in anxiety,” Pittman said. “ s o it’s important to work on sleep and manage time effectively around sleep.”
b auer said deep breathing exercises can also help curb anxiety, especially prior to an exam.
“ d eep breathing, especially in the few minutes before an exam can be extremely beneficial,” b auer said. “ i know i used to be guilty of looking over any notes and note cards up until the test was handed out, but it’s important to use that time to just breathe.”
a ccording to Pittman, deep breathing is another method to calm the amygdala down.
... we can then start comparing that to some of the other planets we’re discovering and some of the solar systems and see how they compare to try and understand how our solar system was formed, is there life anywhere in the galaxy,” he said.
The physics department has billed this event as their “ c hristmas s pectacular.” c rass said this attribution has been given not because it relates to the lecture relates to the holidays but because it is the grand finale of a semester’s worth of public lectures.
Contact Lucas Masin-Moyer at lmasinmo@nd.edu
“The amygdala gets the adrenaline pumping through our bodies, and it can be hard to calm ourselves and our thoughts down then,” Pittman said. “ d eep breathing can help us focus our thoughts so we stop worrying. The amygdala is uncomplicated; scary thoughts scare the amygdala and get it going.”
b auer said if students know of anyone suffering from stress and want to help them, there is a few different approaches they can take. “ b e there for them and remind them you understand what they’re going through,” b auer said. “ i f they’re a friend, give them a hug, rub their back and remind them that it’s okay. i f it’s more serious than that, professors are always available, either after class or in office hours, to consult with the student and talk with them about their fears and anxieties.”
Pittman said it’s important to remember that worrying does not improve anyone’s score, and while worries do not go away with the snap of the fingers, destressing techniques can make final exams a little more bearable.
“ n o one ever got a good grade because of worry,” Pittman said. “They got it because they studied hard. i t’s important to remind students, especially with finals, that they’ve lived through it before and will again. Focus on reading and studying, not catastrophic thoughts, or the worrying thoughts that clog up the cortex.”
Contact Gina Twardosz at gtwardosz01@saintmarys.edu
subjected to water cannons and non-lethal rubber rounds.
Likewise, c ha is not leaving her photojournalism project.
“I will continue with the page, because I still have a backlog,” she said. “I think it would be a mistake to say, ‘ o K, we’ve proclaimed victory’ and move on to other things. I think we need to keep the momentum going.”
h umans of s tanding r ock, c ha said, is based off of b randon s tanton’s h umans of n ew York photojournalism project.
“I was surprised that something like h umans of s tanding r ock didn’t exist already, because this movement has been going on since August,” she said. “ e verything that did come out [of the media] was ... ‘clashes with police,’ even though they’re peaceful protesters — that kind of rhetoric. I didn’t see much content that was created with the intent of humanizing people who were there. These are the people, this is why they’re here, here are their stories.”
While the content the page is from c ha’s time at the reservation over Thanksgiving, she said she was “very open” to making it a collaborative project.
“I was there for three to four days, and I talked to a lot of people, took photographs, recorded them, and I just created a huge backlog of photographs and interviews,” she said. “ o bviously, I was only there three days — I don’t presume to say ‘my story is the only story.’
“I’m not native myself; I didn’t go to the ceremony areas, I didn’t go anywhere I wasn’t invited. There are a lot of stories I can’t tell, and if there are other photojournalists out there, I’d like them to reach out to me.”
c urrently, the h umans of s tanding r ock Facebook page has almost 500 likes.
“The crux is probably n otre d ame students,” c ha said. “ b ut only about 200 out of the 500 are Facebook friends with me, so I only know half of them and where they’re from or anything. h opefully, it’s spreading.”
In addition to humanizing the people at s tanding r ock, c ha said she hopes the Facebook page helps people realize that s tanding r ock’s fight against the pipeline is not just a temporary situation.
“This is an indigenous-led movement, and it’s a prayer movement,” she said. “I think that sometimes gets undercut by other news. … People from other places, other indigenous tribes, they’ve sold their things and come to be in solidarity.
“It’s not like they’re camping there. They’re living there — that’s people’s lives. o ne of the people I interviewed said, ‘It is a movement in some ways, it’s a protest in some ways, but it’s our whole lives — if this pipeline went through, where would we go?’”
Contact Megan Valley at mvalley@nd.edu
thinking, since they’re the ones that show up and say, ‘Well, we saw this thing. Where’s the newborn king of the Jews?’ And nobody else in Judea apparently had noticed it, so it had to be something fairly subtle, not something bright in the sky.”
m athews said he believes the m agi were likely Zoroastrian astronomers from b abylonia or m esopotamia and would likely have primarily been interested in the planets, which were believed to determine destinies as they moved.
m athews said first-century astronomer c laudius Ptolemy wrote a book about how the constellation Aries corresponded with Judea. Astronomical occurrences with Aries, then, would have been interpreted as relating to Judea, Jesus’ homeland in modern-day Palestine.
“There were several things that happened in this rare alignment: Jupiter, s aturn, the moon, the sun are all there at once and the other planets — venus, m ercury — are nearby,”
m athews said. “What was significant is that Jupiter is in what’s called retrograde motion, and it actually comes to stop [relative to e arth]. Translating from the Greek in the old testament ‘and the start came to rest over where the child was’ [from m atthew 2:9].
“Jupiter literally comes to a stop in its retrograde motion in the place where the child is born, in b ethlehem, it comes to a rest in Aries, so it’s kind of consistent with that whole description.
Jupiter was the symbol of the ruler, s aturn was about bringing life, and Aries was on the vernal equinox, so Aries meant the bringing of spring and the bringing of life, that sort of thing. It had all the significance of a life-giving ruler appearing in Judea at this time.”
This theory of a planetary alignment was initially proposed by m ichael m olnar, former professor of astronomy at r utgers University, and described in his 2000 book, “The s tar of b ethlehem: The Legacy of the m agi,” which m athews cites as one of his inspirations for beginning his own inquiries into the s tar of b ethlehem and writing a book on the subject,
which has not yet been published. After considering other possible astronomical explanations, m athews believes m olnar’s theory to be the most plausible.
“I worked on some other ideas, the comets, the supernova thing, because we had a lot of new n A s A archives to scan, but in the end, I think [ m olnar] hit on the right conclusion,” he said.
m athews ran his own calculations to determine when this alignment might occur again.
“The planets are like cars going around a racetrack, and they’re all going different speeds,” he said. “ h ow often is it that they all line up within this little 30 degree patch of the sky along with the sun and the moon at the same time. It’s not that complicated of a calculation. Assuming I did it right, the next alignment was 16 thousand years or so, but it wasn’t in Aries, and it wasn’t in the vernal equinox, so it wouldn’t have the same significance. I ran it forward, and I didn’t see anything for 500,000 years, so it looked really rare.”
Contact Andrew Cameron at acamero2@nd.edu
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taught classes titled “sales Forecasting and making sales” and “social media and marketing Plan.” This year, she taught a class about “defining your target market,” blankenship said.
“With the sPA r K program, you basically get a crash course in business,” she said.
“The women who participate, sPA r Klers, go through an 11week session that touches on everything I’ve taken four years to learn.”
sPA r K — which stands for “screening,” “pre-accelerated program,” and “re-kindling the flame” — accepts candidates who are ready to start their own businesses. Then, the women participate in the course, and learn how to take their business ideas and turn them into a business.
“sPA r K is important because it helps create a community of female entrepreneurs,” she said. “There is a special, unexplainable sisterhood which develops between the sPA r Klers throughout the course. They become intertwined and committed to helping one another. ... We have the capacity to accept 28 women per session, and the alumnae of the program
provide consistent support and insight to new participants each year.”
This growth that the program has seen is expected to continue into the future, she said.
“As we tally more and more successful launches from graduates of the sPA r K program, the potential to grow the program and educate more women is something I see on the horizon,” blankenship said. “Greater success typically will signal greater support from our community, which is exactly what this program needs.” blankenship sees this connection between graduates of the program as representative of the sisterhood many experience at saint mary’s.
“The sPA r K sisterhood is a lot like the saint mary’s sisterhood,” blankenship said. “We are given opportunities to put ourselves out there, and are often, if not always, met with a supportive community who genuinely wants us to succeed. sPA r Klers feel like they are part of something bigger than themselves. They are paving the way for women entrepreneurs in this community and impacting their own lives in big ways.”
Contact Jordan Cockrum at jcockrum01@saintmarys.edu
Courtesy of Jenn Cha
The United States Department of the Army halted to construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline after people across the country came to support the Native American population in the Standing Rock area.
To those before me
Kathryn Marshall news Writer
I still remember my first breakfast in the dining hall. I was determined to make friends in college, so I made toast and wove through a sea of completely empty tables towards the one table that actually had an occupant.
As I would later learn, the student was a senior, and actually a stellar soprano in the choir. And here I was encroaching on her precious 8 a.m. cup of coffee. b ut you know what? s he smiled, introduced herself and proceeded to answer all my random college questions.
d uring that first week, I slowly learned the proper dining hall protocol. b ut I’ve never forgotten the way that senior positively influenced my first day at s aint m ary’s. As I progress through my own senior year, I can’t help but reflect on how much I owe to those b elles who have gone before me.
There are countless women who have inspired me on this campus, and here, I feel it is fitting to focus on the past few s aint m ary’s editors of The o bserver. Witnessing their journeys as writers, both here and across the ocean, as well as their lives as authentic people with a mix of perfections and flaws, has been an honor.
When I went on a research trip to Iowa this weekend with my professor and a freshman b iology major, it struck me that now I am a senior at the peak of her college career. d id those seniors of years past, despite their incredible accomplishments and personalities, feel as nervous and uncertain as I was when faced with the prospect of stepping off the beaten path and taking the real world by the reins?
When I think about those who already watched the leaves fall from the Avenue for the last time, who already experienced their last “first snow” on campus, who already walked across that stage in the spring, I realize that the answer is most likely yes.
Part of me wants a new student to randomly sit down with me at breakfast one morning just so I can tell them it’s ok to be nervous and uncertain. Just so long as there is some excitement mixed in with those nerves.
b ecause that’s what those women who went before me had in common. They all had a contagious passion for their area of study. Thank you for teaching me that this passion enables one to walk down the Avenue towards an even more exciting future.
s eniors of years past, you inspired me to pursue my passion, even if that is an odd combination of writing and looking at museum bird specimens. I only hope I can properly pass the baton by inspiring at least one first year the way you inspired me.
Contact Kathryn Marshall at kmarsh02@saintmarys.edu
The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
letters to tHe edItor
Unnecessary second check
s everal days ago the o ffice of Information Technology ( oIT) notified the student body through an email that simple user/password logins would be replaced with a user-registered authentication key. Their idea is to improve security through increasing the number of physical devices that must be compromised before access to notre dame online services (such as email, cloud storage, etc.) can be misused. At face value, the idea makes sense, until you think about the situation carefully.
oIT is using two-factor authentication to solve advanced persistent threats. These threats rely on phishing to attain stolen logins and passwords. In a phishing attack, the user is required to make some sort of mistake in the form of clicking an unknown link or sharing sensitive information with the wrong entity. Two-factor authentication doesn’t solve this problem, it just increases the number of devices which must be compromised from one to two. In truth, users which can be drawn into clicking bad links or sharing sensitive information are also capable of compromising their accounts on multiple devices. The real solution to this problem is education-related. o nly when users become well versed in detecting phishing attacks can these types of breaches actually be stopped. more worryingly, oIT has made a technology decision on behalf of all the users of notre dame’s online services. They have decided that all users have access to a smartphone, tablet or landline when accessing notre dame online services. First, what an assumption! how did they reach this conclusion? Was a survey conducted? how many users do not fall into this category? The data to support such a decision is suspiciously absent. s econd, why is it acceptable for a support organization, like oIT, to dictate how much security is needed for each individual? many users have had no problems using notre dame services, but
could be hampered by the new login process. b y imposing their will, they are overstepping their purpose. Instead of a support role, University operations are being altered — potentially rendering some services inaccessible.
The core issue with IT infrastructure is a trade-off between security and usability. A 100 percent secure IT service would be completely useless, while a 100 percent usable IT service would not be secure. r ather than letting users decide how much of each trait is really needed for their situation (by offering a series of solutions), oIT has already reached a misguided conclusion. no one would accept an oIT imposed decision to use Android over an iPhone or Windows over mac os. This situation is fundamentally no different. oIT should support, not decide the selection and use of technology for the university.
It is not difficult to imagine a scenario in which a user does not have access to their second authentication device, or its battery is dead. since no data has been referenced during this transition, it is reasonable to conclude they either do not have or do not care about the number of instances users will be unable to access key services due to the change in the login process. At the very minimum, oIT should make two-factor authentication opt-in until they have demonstrated a knowledge of how many will be adversely affected and provided an effective work-around.
don’t worry, however, if your usage of online services does not fall under oIT’s outrageous assumptions. For the low, low price of $20, they will sell you guaranteed access to the services you were already using for free.
A civic sacrament
At 2:47 a.m. on Wednesday, nov. 9, once it had become clear that donald J. Trump would become the next president of the United states, the notre dame college republicans published the following tweet: “every President since carter has spoken at notre dame commencement in this first year of office. We’re ready for President @real donaldTrump.”
The college republicans brought to our attention the possibility of hosting President Trump as the 2017 commencement speaker. This idea led the two of us — a democrat and a republican — to consider the process for selecting notre dame commencement speakers.
We value and vaunt the fact that six U.s. presidents have spoken at commencement; their presence is a source of pride and is indicative of notre dame’s prominence as an academic institution. of course, not all invitations to PoTUs have been met with equal support. For example, in 2009, protest and anger erupted due to President barack obama’s position on abortion. Flyers depicting aborted fetuses were disseminated, and the president was disrespectfully interrupted multiple times during his speech, once being called a “baby killer.” We recognize that there were legitimate moral concerns about President obama’s speech at commencement, just as we are cognizant of legitimate moral concerns should President Trump be invited to speak at commencement.
Though the two of us disagree on national political issues, we stand together in support of dialogue, debate and bipartisanship.
In this same spirit, we propose that each graduating class actively engage with the University in selecting their commencement speaker. We propose that the senior class be invited to recommend potential speakers and have the opportunity to publicly discuss the merits of each nominee with their classmates, faculty, staff and administrators. commencement is, after all, an expression of the character of this community.
The American people elected President Trump to represent the values and aspirations of the United states of America. similarly, we believe that our community should have the opportunity to select a commencement speaker who represents the values and aspirations of notre dame. Let us not forget the wisdom of Fr. hesburgh: “voting is a civic sacrament.” on november 8, the American people took part in this sacrament and voted their conscience. now it is time for notre dame to do the same.
Jeremy Hershberger Ph.d. student nov. 16
Bridget Rickard junior
Julio Salazar junior
no man, no manufacture
We’ve heard a lot in the past months of election coverage about working-class jobs. c andidates from both sides of the aisle have courted the blue-collar vote by promising to create or return the 4.5 million manufacturing jobs that have left the United states since 1994, with d emocrats and republicans alike running against free trade for the first time I can remember. The result? A vicious and decisive battle for the electoral votes of the rust b elt. now that the dust has settled for a moment, I will be interested to see whether the new president can deliver on the promised working-class renaissance. sure, rolling back regulations (along with what appears to be a obsequious campaign of tax incentives) might allow companies to lower production costs enough to bring manufacturing back, if you’re okay with working 100-hour weeks at a plant with suicide nets on the roof and regular instances of local rivers catching fire. And maybe a prolonged tariff war with c hina might force Apple and so forth to make their products stateside, assuming millennials are willing to fork over an extra 14 percent for a domestic iPhone. Yet it would be a serious mistake to assume that manufacturing production necessarily translates to manufacturing jobs.
In the unlikely event that steel comes back to Pittsburgh and cars to d earborn and t-shirts to Lowell, it won’t be American workers doing the labor; it’ll be machines. We don’t have to imagine
what this future will look like; it’s already happening. “reshoring” companies are fleeing higher wages in the oft-vilified c hina and moving their factories to America — and staffing them with robots. While American manufacturing output has risen over 20 percent since the recession ended in 2009, manufacturing jobs have only gone up about 5 percent.
In fact, the verb “manufacture” itself has become outdated. The word comes from the Latin “manu factum,” or “made by hand,” which is no longer the case at this point in history. Perhaps an alternative (“mechafacturing,” or “made by contrivance”?) is needed.
And if you think the future of manufacturing looks bleak, you should be terrified for the fate of transportation jobs. s elf-driving vehicles are already capable of operating near or even beyond human capabilities. c omputer programs don’t need truck stops or air conditioning, and they don’t get road rage. c onsider the shock to the nation’s 2.8 million-worker trucking sector when automated transport goes mainstream. Long-haul truckers and delivery drivers won’t be the only ones affected; new York c ity alone is home to over 56,000 cabbies whose knowledge of the city is rapidly being rendered obsolete by GP s technology. Airline pilots might last a little longer, given the complexities of trying to navigate through a storm cell. As algorithms improve, however, consumers will demand the superior efficiency and safety of robotic transport.
Predictably, these advances in technology have created reactionaries opposed to this progress. And
a politician insistent on drawing support from the loom-smashers might shortsightedly decide the best way to maintain these voters is to suppress the innovations that cause their obsolescence. sure, the slowdown will likely cost more economic productivity than it generates, and the eventual elimination of manual production is all but inevitable as automated costs continue to fall. but in the meantime, it appears it’s perfectly possible to tip elections by feeding the rust belt fantasy.
r ather than yearn for a bygone era falsely made rosy by nostalgia (we’ve had more than our fill of that recently, thank you) Americans facing systemic job loss would do better to reach down, take a firm hold upon their bootstraps, and pull upwards. While the disruptive influence of automation means that work at “The Plant” has been consigned to the twentieth century and bruce springsteen songs, the silicon revolution has opened thousands of new opportunities for those willing to ride the wave of innovation. Programming is the new welding — a fundamental skill by which the premium products of the age are created. There’s even still a place for unskilled labor in America; while manufacturing is falling, retail is on the rise. maybe “we don’t make anything anymore.” maybe that’s okay.
Stephen Raab, an MSM Candidate at the Mendoza College of Business, graduated Notre Dame with a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering in 2016. He enjoys matching wits with all comers at sraab@nd.edu
The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
An Eisenhower Republican’s manifesto
Late last night, reaganism was found dead behind a dumpster in m idtown, manhattan. Pending release of the official autopsy, based on the body’s location and reports of pharyngeal bruising, it appears that, contrary to virtually all media reports, donald Trump’s stubby little fingers were in fact just long enough to wrap themselves around reaganism’s neck and strangle the last gasps of life from its atrophied body. I know that for many this may be hard to process; reaganism was, after all, republican Party orthodoxy for three decades. but take one look at Trump’s cincinnati victory rally, where, looking more “duce” than Gipper, our next president bemoaned the working class’s stagnant wages and proclaimed that “government can be responsive and we can be proud again of how Washington works,” and you will know the truth. For better or worse, there is no place in the republican Party today for the doctrine of a man who referred to russia as “the evil empire,” proposed nAFTA and swore by trickle-down economics and government non-intervention. Indeed, anyone who went on stage before a Trump audience and said those things would be booed off the stage. but, do not despair! Though reaganism may be dead and bushism so discredited it merits only this ephemeral dismissal, that does not mean the G oP’s only path forward is caesarism-as-Trumpism. For alternatives, I turn to the conservative’s first recourse: consultation with the past. sixty years ago, the president declared in his farewell address that the “basic purpose” of America’s government is “to keep the peace, to foster progress in human achievement and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among peoples and among nations.” e isenhower
republicanism — by melting down the golden calf of free market absolutism that has too long suffocated the G oP and, in turn, the American people, and by abandoning our current myopic and naïve foreign policy — would provide a framework to confront all the problems, present and future, the 21st century will present America. As Ike proudly announced himself a “Progressive republican,” I declare myself to be an eisenhower republican.
What is an e isenhower republican?
An e isenhower republican realizes the tired old republican canard about government always being the problem, never the solution, for the boring and worthless truism it is. When an eisenhower republican watches neil Armstrong take mankind’s first steps on the moon, or drives from new York to Los Angeles or browses the web, they realize the prudential and deliberate use of federal power can produce wonders the private sector would be frightened away from. An e isenhower republican realizes that through judicious formation of government agencies and projects, such as e isenhower’s formation of nA sA, the Inter-state h ighway system and dA r PA, we can innovate, construct infrastructure and explore the galaxy. An e isenhower republican wants to live in an America that does those things, both for their own sake and because such endeavors boost the economy, bolster the national defense and increase national confidence.
An e isenhower republican realizes that not only are the riches of the world’s wealthiest country in some measure the birthright of all Americans, but also that we are a community, a society all in this together, and there is no excuse for a nation so rich to not provide for those unable to provide for themselves. An e isenhower republican recognizes that limited government intervention in the economy to preserve the social order, such as trust-busting or
combating economic inequality, is a cornerstone of what makes the American dream possible.
An e isenhower republican realizes the best defense is a good offense, and allocates military spending accordingly, anticipating the needs of tomorrow rather than reacting to the vicissitudes of today, as Ike did when he shifted military spending towards the Air Force and the nuclear programs. An e isenhower republican is mindful of George Washington’s admonition “to steer clear of permanent alliances,” and realizes both sentimentality and vindictiveness are, quite literally, lethal in international politics. An eisenhower republican realizes America’s own interests should be our foreign policy’s only lodestone, and indulges no ally nor opposes any enemy contrary to the natural interest, as Ike did when he chastened the british, French and Israelis for acting against American interests and without American knowledge during the suez crisis. e isenhower fought the marxists wherever they attacked, but never forsook efforts at rapprochement with the soviet Union.
The way forward is clear: A return to the values, policies and aims of eisenhower will revitalize American national confidence, accelerate technological innovation, combat rising economic inequality and working class disenfranchisement, create economic growth and begin undoing the disastrous effects of the woefully misguided foreign policy of George W. bush and obama that has overseen russian conquests, european perfidy, south American disorder, c hinese revanchism and a caliphate in the heart of the m iddle east.
Devon Chenelle is a junior in Keough Hall. He is a history major with an Italian minor. He can be reached at dchenell@nd.edu
The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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Devon Chennelle
The Gadfly
Happy Birthday: Take control of your life and start to do the things that make you happy and healthy. you can bring about positive changes that will encourage you to be your best. d on’t listen to negativity or people who try to discourage you from living life your way. The harder you work, the greater your opportunities will become. your numbers are 2, 13, 16, 21, 32, 37, 45.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Tell it like it is and do whatever has to be done to get it right. d on’t saddle yourself with nonsense that is a waste of time when directing your time and energy more efficiently will lead you to the winner’s circle.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): d on’t let emotions and anxiety lead to anger and disappointment. concentrate on what you can do to make your life better. e ducational pursuits and communicating with people who have something to offer should be your priority.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): l ook for interesting new ways to improve your everyday chores, responsibilities or your job. An energetic approach to what really matters to you will help you finish what you start and encourage you to start something new.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): l et life unfold naturally. o bserve what’s going on around you until you see situations clearly enough to make a decision that will have a positive influence on your life. Too much of anything will be unhealthy.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): e xamine your motivations for getting involved in something before you jump in. If your reasons aren’t true to your beliefs, it may be time to change course. Take charge of your life so no one else can. make a commitment to excel.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): networking and socializing are favored as long as you don’t make unrealistic promises or expect too much. l earn from what others divulge and how they respond, but do your own research. romance is encouraged.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): g et past the discord and family dynamics and strive to make plans that will bring you closer to the ones you love. keeping the peace isn’t always easy, but showing how much you care will be a good place to begin.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Tell it like it is and move on to your next mission. Take the route that suits you best. A decision you make at home will increase your desire to learn new things. d on’t worry about what others think.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): make this a day of new beginnings. start from the ground up and make the adjustments that will support the dreams you want to create and the goals you want to achieve. o pen the door when opportunity knocks.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): keep your thoughts and plans simple and finish what you start. seeing things through will be its own reward. keep your dreams alive and your goals in perspective. Try to avoid minor injury and accidents.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): keep a level head regardless of what other people do. It’s in your best interest to do what will bring you the most in return. An emotional change will help to stabilize your life and your future. o pportunity must not be wasted.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): stay on track. d on’t lose sight of the truth and what’s transpired in the past. refuse to take on responsibilities that don’t belong to you. There are other ways to help that will bring you far more in return.
Birthday Baby: you are playful, witty and adaptable. you are adventurous and entertaining.
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nbA should crack down on Green
R.J. Stempak sports Writer
Two players are beating up the nb A this year. but before I talk about them, I have a quick note on the one player connecting these two maniacs of pedal destruction: Kevin d urant.
d urant is quietly putting up career highs in field goal percentage, three-point percentage, rebounds, steals and blocks, to go alongside career lows in turnovers and minutes. he’s still really good, despite the Warriors being worse than everyone thought. oh wait, they have the best record in the league. Isn’t that nice?
The first guy that is kicking the league in the face is r ussell Westbrook. e veryone saw an outburst and increase in stats across the board, but no one knows what to do about him. he has five straight triple-doubles to give him a total of ten on the season. he is averaging a tripledouble overall with 31.1 points, 10.5 rebounds and 11.2 assists. b east-brook is the Thunder. h is usage rate is at a career high of 41 percent. That means Westbrook uses 41 percent of his team’s possessions for a shot, a trip to the free-throw line or a turnover. To put that in context, second in the league is d emarcus c ousins at 37 percent usage.
d espite its reliance on no. 0, the team is not faltering. o klahoma c ity is 13-8, with four of those losses coming to Golden state, s an Antonio, the c lippers and Toronto, some of the top teams in the league. The Thunder are clearly a second-tier squad, but their performance with Westbrook at the helm really makes losing harden and d urant sting a little more. oh, what could have been. The trio that used to comprise the big three of the Thunder could find themselves together again at the top of the mv P race. m aybe it’s a moot point because all three require the ball to be in their hands to
succeed, but then again, talent can often trump chemistry. And o klahoma c ity had all the talent in the world just a few years ago.
Alone, they all have earned superstar status, lucrative shoe deals and plenty of shots on their respective teams. m aybe it is just meant to be this way.
The other bruiser I want to talk about is d raymond Green. The dude is out of control. Just the other night he attempted a layup and kicked James h arden in the face in the process. Two days later, Green kicked m arquese c hriss in the hand, dislocating his finger. And this was while he was standing straight up on the three-point line.
o f course, this has been brought up to Green, who was suspended in the playoffs last year for similar kicking-related activities. h is response to esPn reporter c hris h aynes is as d raymond Green as it gets.
“I just laugh at it because it’s funny how you can tell me how I get hit and how my body is supposed to react,” Green reportedly said. “I didn’t know people in the league office were that smart when it came to your body movement.”
I am no kinesiology expert, but when doing a rip through move, there is nothing that can propel your one leg straight up into your opponent. Your legs are planted the whole time.
Kicking is not a part of basketball, and the league needs to crack down on this behavior. Fine him, suspend him, do something. more people are going to get kicked in the heads, shoulders, knees and toes if he isn’t reprimanded. no other body in the league reacts in this way and as often as Green’s body does. m aybe he should get that checked out.
Contact R.J. Stempak at rstempak@nd.edu
The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Capitals tie game in the third, win in overtime
Associated Press
WA shInGTon — marcus Johansson scored the tying goal late in the third period and got the winner midway through overtime to lift the Washington capitals to a 3-2 victory over the buffalo sabres on monday night.
The goals were Johansson’s third and fourth in his last five games. he has 11 for the season.
Jay beagle added the capitals’ first even-strength goal in three games, as Washington snapped a threegame losing skid. braden holtby made 31 saves in the victory, the capitals second over the sabres in an 11-day stretch.
Nba | nUGGeTs 106, 76ers 98
Kyle okposo scored his team-leading eighth goal of the season to give the sabres the lead in the second period. Zemgus Girgensons also scored early for buffalo, and robin Lehner made 30 stops for the visitors. Johansson’s winner came 2:38 into the extra period as he took a cross-ice pass from dmitry orlov and fired a onetime that beat Lehner over his left pad.
earlier, Johansson tied it at 2-2 with 6:18 left in the third period, and just 5 seconds into Washington’s last power play, redirecting John carlson’s shot into traffic following a faceoff. Washington outshot buffalo 16-9 in the third period after the sabres had a 16-7 edge in the second. buffalo also had a goal disallowed in the middle period for offside on a replay review. The sabres finally regained the lead when okposo put in ryan o’reilly’s rebound to make it 2-1 with 4:37 left. noT es : buffalo c Jack eichel finished the game despite appearing to hurt his left leg in a second-period tangle with capitals d orlov. It was eichel’s fourth game back from a high ankle sprain in the same leg that forced him to miss two months.
UP ne XT sabres: host edmonton on Tuesday night in the opener of a four-game homestand. capitals: host boston on Wednesday night.
Two denver players finish with twenty point games
Associated Press
P h ILA de LP h IA — d anilo Gallinari scored 24 points and Will b arton had 22, including a big 3-pointer late, to lead the d enver n uggets to a 106-98 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on m onday night.
Jamal murray added 22 points for the n uggets, who won for just the second time in the last seven games. It was their second contest of a six-game road trip.
e rsan Ilyasova, s ergio r odriguez and d ario s aric all had 17 points for Philadelphia, which culminated a four-game homestand with its seventh straight defeat.
The game featured murray and Joel e mbiid, the nb A’s Western and e astern c onference rookies of the month for o ctober/ n ovember. e mbiid finished with 16 points.
e mbiid returned after sitting out s aturday’s 107-106 loss to b oston, the seventh game he has missed this
season due to the team’s rehab plan not to play him on back-to-back nights after he was sidelined for his first two seasons with a foot injury. The 7-foot-2 center will not make the trip to m emphis, where the 76ers will play on Tuesday night.
d enver scored the first seven points of the fourth quarter as Philadelphia opened the period by missing its first seven shots. The n uggets took their largest lead, 81-70, on b arton’s drive 2:41 into the period.
Wilson c handler, d enver’s leading scorer at 18.6 points per game entering m onday, was scoreless until tallying 10 straight points beginning with a 3-pointer with 8:24 remaining that made it 8474. h e matched the n uggets’ largest lead with another 3 that made it 89-78 with 6:25 left.
b ut the 76ers stayed close and were within five before Jameer n elson stepped in front of Ilyasova’s pass in the backcourt and converted a layup to make it
100-93 with 1:22 remaining. e mbiid made a 3-pointer on Philadelphia’s ensuing possession, but b arton all but put the game away with a 3 of his own on d enver’s next possession, making it 103-96 with 49 seconds to play.
The n uggets pulled in front for the first time on Gallinari’s two free throws with 3:55 left in the third quarter that made it 64-63. The game remained close throughout the period, and d enver entered the fourth with a 74-70 lead after b arton finished an alley-loop layup after a pass from murray.
The highlight of the period was murray’s 17-foot underhanded scoop shot that just beat the shot clock.
The game was a slump buster for murray, who was 1 for 11 with two points combined in his last two contests. h e went 8 for 12, including 3 for 3 from the arc.
Philadelphia led by as many as 10 in the first half before entering the locker room ahead 53-51.
Belles drop first MIAA game
Observer Sports Staff
saint mary’s lost its miaa opener on saturday, falling 81-48 to albion.
The belles scored the first points of the game and led 5-3 early on, but quickly fell behind thanks to an 18-2 run by the brits. The brits continued to look on top for the second quarter, as they extended their lead to 41-20 at halftime. sophomore guard erin maloney had 7 points for the belles at the half, but her team had no answer for the brits’ ball movement as they gave up 16 assists on 17 first-half field goals. although the belles began the second half with a 7-2 run, the brits quickly re-strengthened their lead, scoring 25 points in just over 7 minutes to end the quarter leading 68-37. The fourth quarter was the most competitive of the game, with the belles giving up only 13 points.
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swim for a couple days hard in a row. i think it’s a really good test for the team: a meet at home, and then jump on the bus the next morning to go against n orthwestern. it’ll be a lot of fun.”
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however, already trailing by more than 30 points when it began, the belles weren’t able to make the game any closer, as the brits ended up 81-48 victors. sophomore forward Kelsey ronan led the belles in points with 13. The brits outrebounded the belles 46-28 and recorded 20 offensive boards.
The belles will now begin a busy winter schedule that sees them play each miaa opponent as well as an out-of-conference tournament in Las vegas. saint mary’s will host Trine and calvin and travel to adrian before meeting montclair state, california Lutheran and millikin in the Las vegas hoopla. miaa action will then resume for the belles in the new year, when they meet Kalamazoo, alma, hope and olivet.
Trine will come to saint mary’s on dec. 7. Tip-off will be at 7:30 p.m.
opponents in the two meets will offer different challenges.
“We already saw i owa once this year, which was unique and a different format but iowa is a really strong program traditionally and i llinois is a women’s only program,” he said. “ it will be a different schedule of events against them so we
are looking forward to that competition. The big test will be the next day against n orthwestern. o ur program has a new coach, she’s in her second year on the women’s side, and our men are very, very strong – we’ll give it our best shot.”
Contact Brenna Moxley at bmoxley@nd.edu
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Irish sophomore freestyler Tabahn Afrik swims the 100-meter freestyle Oct. 28 at Rolfs Aquatic Center. Afrik placed first in the race.
CAITLYN JORDAN | The Observer
Belles sophomore guard Erin Maloney tries to avoid a defender during Saint Mary’s’ 52-49 loss to Olivet on Jan. 23 at Angela Gym. Maloney started in 15 games last season and played in all but one game.
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The people that did do well today, we’re going to build upon that and they should have some great seasons. And the people that didn’t do well, we still got six weeks till the next meet, so they should have time to recover.”
In the 60-meter dash, senior Tommy Grant (6.87) finished first and sophomore Zachary Zajdel (6.97) finished second. Zajdel again came in second in the 200-meter race with a time of 22.11 seconds, just behind senior Alex Groesch (21.91). Groesch also grabbed the top spot in the 400-meter dash (48.47).
The Irish men nearly captured victory again in the 4x400 relay, but in a dramatic ending, senior John r utkowski, junior d rake s timson, senior Patrick o ’c onnell and Groesch, finished .01 second(3:14.82) behind first-place d ePaul (3:14.81).
In the field, sophomore m atthew b irzer finished first in the high jump (2.15m), just shy of his personal record of 2.17m. s enior n ate r ichartz snagged the top spot in the men’s pole vault (5.00m), and senior Anthony s hivers claimed second in the weight throw (19.10m).
o n the women’s side, senior Indi Jackson won the
the A cc in scoring margin and turnover margin, forcing their opponents to cough up an average of 13.9 turnovers per game.
Looking to stop Fort Wayne’s winning streak, n otre d ame will need to capitalize at the free-throw line, where it leads the nation at 85.8 percent. Fort Wayne is the first game in a difficult stretch for the Irish, who face v illanova and Purdue after Tuesday’s game. Junior forward and captain v.J. b eachem said the stretch is an opportunity for his team, starting with the important matchup on Tuesday. “It’s a great stretch for us to make a run,” b eachem said. “We got to stay true to ourselves, have a great day of practice tomorrow and take it gameby-game. It’s a great opportunity for us, but we got to take it one game at a time.”
At the end of the day, the only statistic that matters is the win-loss column. The Irish are the only remaining undefeated team in a grueling conference. b rey likes the position his team is in and only hopes to build on it.
“o nly one left [undefeated] in the Acc , I know,” b rey said. “We’ll take that and run with it. We’ve really put ourselves in a great position.” n otre d ame tips off against Fort Wayne at 9 p.m. at Purcell Pavilion. Contact R.J. Stempak at rstempak@nd.edu
shot put (15.05). Freshmen s ummer Thorpe and n aya s harp ended up first and third, respectively, in the women’s 60-meter hurdles. s harp also placed third (7.63) in the women’s 60-meter m dash and second (5.59m) in the long jump. Junior Allison b artoszewicz won the women’s 200m dash (25.29), while Thorpe placed second (25:57). Irish associate head coach m att s parks explained the level of importance of Friday’s meet.
“We’ve got a lot of young kids on the team that needed to gain the experience of what college athletics is like, so this is a pretty low-key event that allowed them to see where their conditioning is after a long semester of school and training,” s parks said. “In a lot of ways this meet is almost an exhibition, because there are no team scores, and probably only three-fourths of the team competed with the distance runners taking the meet off, so once again it’s just an opportunity for a lot of the younger kids to show the coaching staff what they’re going to be able to do for us this year.”
The team has a break of six weeks before traveling to c hampaign, Illinois, at 11 a.m. Jan. 14 to compete in the Illini c lassic.
Contact Joe Everett at jeveret4@nd.edu
CHRIS COLLINS | The Observer Irish freshman pole vaulter Landon Shank runs toward the bar during the Blue & Gold Invitational on Friday.
KATHLEEN DONAHUE | The Observer Irish junior forward Bonzie Colson shoots from mid-range during Notre Dame’s 107-53 win over North Carolina A&T on Sunday.
KATHLEEN DONAHUE | The Observer
Irish senior forward V.J. Beachem drives toward the basket during Notre Dame’s 107-53 win over North Carolina A&T on Sunday at Purcell Pavilion. Beachem led the Irish with 19 points against the Aggies.
