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Archbishop Tobin gives lecture Cardinal delivers speech on reconciling Catholic faith with immigration politics

By MADISON BOLLENBACHER News Writer

Cardinal Joseph Tobin, Archbishop of Newark, N.J., asked listeners to consider the causes and solutions to the hardheartedness affecting many in the Catholic community during a lecture hosted by Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns in the Carey Auditorium on Thursday.

Tobin is the second predecessor of former Archbishop of Newark Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal who left the ministry after an investigation found substantial evidence supporting accusations that he had abused see TOBIN PAGE 9

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Archbishop Joseph Tobin of Newark, N.J., called for Catholics to act compassionately toward immigrants and work for change in a speech in Carey Auditorium at Hesburgh Library on Thursday.

ESPN visits campus for game

By TOM NAATZ Associate News Editor

W hile every Notre Dame home game represents a large event, this weekend’s season opener against the University of Michigan will feature a rare visit from ESPN’s College GameDay, the ESPN program that visits the site of each weekend’s biggest matchup. It will be College GameDay’s first visit to Notre Dame since the fall of 2012.

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ESPN College GameDay’s first ever broadcast was from Notre Dame’s campus on Nov. 13, 1993, ahead of the Irish’s matchup that day against Florida State.

In addition to being able to watch the show’s taping Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon from Library Quad, there are several other associated activities available to community members in

The Colectivo Solecito de Veracruz will receive the University’s 2018 Notre Dame Award, the University announced in a press release Thursday.

The group was founded in 2014 by eight mothers in the Mexican state of Veracruz who aimed to recover family members who had going missing as a result of see AWARD PAGE 7

Michigan Street renamed to Fighting Irish Drive

By KELLI SMITH Associate News Editor

Running through the city of South Bend on a typical week is a street labeled by the sign “Michigan St.” Located at the intersection of Michigan and Washington St., the sign can be found distinguishing one of the

main downtown streets at the heart of South Bend.

But this isn’t a typical week in the city.

On Saturday, Notre Dame will be taking on the University of Michigan in its season-opening game for the 2018 football season.

Football rivals since 1887, the teams are meeting for

the first time since 2014, prompting even ESPN’s College GameDay to stake its football pregame show on Irish turf.

In a display of solidarity with the Irish and in anticipation of the thousands of visitors soon to see STREET PAGE 7

Saint Mary’s creates three PrismND replaces new academic positions group president see GAMEDAY PAGE 8

By JORDAN COCKRUM and MARIA LEONTARAS Saint Mary’s Editor and

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Senior Jeffrey Murphy announced his resignation as president of PrismND in an email to the organization’s email list Thursday night.

(Editor’s note: Murphy is a

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columnist for The Observer.)

“It is with a truly heav y heart that I announce my resignation as president of PrismND,” Murphy said in the email. “I have so see PRISM PAGE 8

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The beginning of the academic year marked a significant change in the administrative operations at Saint Mary’s.

Due to the retirement of Susan Vanek, associate dean of advising and director of first year

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studies, Saint Mary’s divided Vanek’s responsibilities up to three new roles, all which fall under the Student Academic Services division.

Philosophy professor Karen Chambers has been hired as dean of student academic services, which is one of the three new roles. The other two positions, director of academic advising and registrar and

director of first year experience and retention, have yet to be filled.

“My position is new, but only because the person that was sitting here before — Susan Vanek — she had served the College for a really long time, and she was doing so much that they didn’t feel like one

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Notre Dame, Michigan harbor historic rivalry

By GRACE McDERMOTT News Writer

The score of 31-0 (or 37-0, to some avid fans) is a wellknown and often referenced one at the University of Notre Dame. The two numbers side by side bring up memories of a sunny September day filled with screaming fans, dynamic plays and a particularly rousing rendition of “Na Na Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye.”

Four years ago, at what was purported to be the final game in the historic series — at least, the final game for the foreseeable future — Notre Dame completely shut out Michigan in a historic showing in South Bend.

The score of 8-0, though, may be lesser known here on campus, likely because it took place in 1887 rather than 2014.

As Notre Dame prepares to restart the storied rivalry Friday against No. 14 Michigan, over 80,000 fans eagerly await the culmination of the 42-game, 131-year series between the two Midwestern schools.

In a modern college football world in which the Southeastern Conference regularly dominates the regular season and playoffs (in the four years of the College Football Playoff era, SEC teams have appeared in all four and won three), Michigan–Notre Dame games still hold a sense of importance and drama, even at the national level, despite the fact that neither team has won a national championship in decades.

John Kryk, author of “Natural Enemies: The Notre Dame-Michigan Football

Feud,” attributes this continual spotlight to several different factors, including large fan bases and national recognition.

“There are so many special memories from this series, from games themselves, so many iconic moments,” Kryk said. “When you think about the helmets, uniforms, stadiums, fight songs and tradition, they are some of the most recognizable in this sport or in any sport. You take all these things and throw them together, and that’s what makes this series special.”

Amir Carlisle, a former wide receiver for the Irish who caught two touchdowns in the 2014 Michigan game, added a player’s perspective on the rivalry.

“There is no bigger rivalry than Notre Dame–Michigan,” Carlisle said. “Every year, the game was something we got super excited for. There was a lot of hype built around the game from both sides. It’s the kind of moment you dream about and live for as a high school player.”

The relationship between the two football teams began in the late 19th-century. Kryk described the humble beginnings of what would grow to become a bitter, nationallyknown rivalry.

“Michigan literally taught Notre Dame how to play football,” Kryk said. “Two Notre Dame students transferred to Michigan in 1887 and joined the varsity football team.

They stopped by South Bend on the way to Chicago once, and [Notre Dame] made up a squad so Michigan could teach them how to play.

That was their first game in history.”

After this lesson, Notre Dame and Michigan went onto play each other sporadically throughout the following two decades. Michigan won the first eight games of the series.

“It was a big brother-little brother kind of relationship,” Kryk said. “Notre Dame wanted to be what Michigan was in athletics.”

The series went south when Notre Dame beat Fielding Yost’s Michigan team in 1909.

“Yost hated to lose, and after that, there was a disagreement,” Kryk said. “Michigan thought Notre Dame had submitted three ineligible players for the next year’s roster.

From that point, Notre Dame’s reputation went under.”

The demise of this reputation began when Michigan cancelled the 1910 match and firmly refused to play Notre Dame, with Yost insisting that the team was one of rule-breakers and renegades.

Since Michigan had inf luence in the Midwestern conference, none of the other teams near Notre Dame would play the Irish either. After years of being unable to play any good teams, the Irish, led by Knute Rockne, decided that they would begin travelling.

“They had to go on the road to play teams in NYC, Texas, Missouri — they, went all over,” Kryk said. “Eventually, they began their relationship with USC in the 1920s.

All that happened because the Michigan scandal spilled over. That’s how they became a national school, Michigan made it that by boycotting, though Notre Dame just did

it to play some good teams.

It’s why Notre Dame is Notre Dame today.”

Notre Dame’s current reputation isn’t all that stemmed from its 1909 victory. Among many conjectures about the origin of the nickname “Fighting Irish,” one legend comes from an event that apparently occurred at the 1909 Michigan game.

According to the report “What’s In a Name,” published on Notre Dame’s official website, “The first use of the nickname ‘Fighting Irish’ for Notre Dame sports teams may have been in 1909, when legend says that a player’s speech at the halftime of a football game against Michigan inspired a furious comeback. He reportedly yelled to his teammates — with names like Dolan, Kelly, Glynn and Ryan: ‘What’s the matter with you guys? You’re all Irish and you’re not fighting worth a lick.’ The news reports that picked up the story attributed the victory to the Fighting Irishmen.”

The story with the “Fighting Irish” headline appeared in the “Detroit Free Press.”

The Michigan-Notre Dame rivalry continued off the field in the years to come, with quick-tempered coaches Yost and Rockne exchanging strongly worded letters and adamantly refusing to play the other. In the letters, Yost often accused Rockne and his Notre Dame team of disavowing the rules set by Michigan’s conference – the Big Nine or Big Ten, depending on different years. The two coaches did not settle their differences before Rockne’s untimely death.

The teams met intermittently after Yost’s reign at Michigan came to and end, including two wartime games in 1942 and 1943, of which each team won one. In the ’70s and ’80s, the rivalry restarted in earnest, often ending with last-minute lead reversals, game-winning field goals and general hysteria. The games became a national spectacle, and since the rivalry was rekindled in 1978, each team has won 15 games of the series (the 1992 game ended in a tie).

Since the Wolverines and the Irish last met on the turf, harsh words have been exchanged between the coaches and athletic directors and a full four years of undergraduates have passed through both universities.

With College GameDay coming to South Bend and the Michigan f lag f lying over the north end zone, the anticipation around campus is palpable as students and fans count down the minutes to the 7:30 p.m. kickoff this Saturday.

Carlisle said he has high expectations for the Irish on Saturday.

“The guys who were younger when I was there, like [graduate student linebacker] Drue Tranquill and [senior wide receiver] Chris Finke, have grown into great players and great leaders,” Carlisle said. “I expect them to go out there, execute the game plan, fight from the first quarter to the fourth quarter, play hard and ultimately come out with a victory.”

Contact Grace McDermott at gmcdermo@nd.edu

Saint Mary’s dorms undergo maintenance

By SARA SCHLECHT News Writer

Over the summer, crews worked on maintenance and renovation projects to update the residence halls at Saint Mar y’s.

Benjamin Bow man, facilities director at the College, said maintenance and building ser v ices workers were busy over the summer w ith several different projects.

“In Le Mans, we put carpeting in all the corridors from the second through fifth f loors,” Bow man said.

Another change to Le Mans Hall occurred on the second f loor. In one section on this f loor, Bow man said wooden parts of walls were restored w ith the rest painted white.

Additionally, the ceilings were painted a darker color w ith the intention of making the pipes appear less v isible.

“W hat we need to do yet there is lower the lighting so it’s not highlighting the piping and put wall sconces outside each door,” Bow man said.

He said there are plans to complete this project in the near future.

W hile working on this section, Bow man said the renovation crew was surprised to find terrazzo, a material made of cement and chips of marble and similar minerals, underneath the carpet.

Not waiting to cover this again, Bow man said he and College President Jan Cer velli agreed to remove the carpet glue one area of the f loor and leave the terra zzo exposed rather than cover it w ith carpet again.

“We decided to restore a section of it, and we used our ow n building ser v ices

staff do to that,” he said.

A ll of the residence halls saw some form of update since touch-up painting was done in each of them, he said.

Holy Cross Hall received additional renovation in its basement in the form of f looring.

“We took the v inyl tile up,” Bow man said. “It was loose and coming up, chipping off, so we put a lu xur y v inyl tile dow n. It looks like wood.”

Bow man said a significant part of the maintenance done over the summer occurred as a result of a full inspection of ever y dorm room on campus. This led to the discover y of numerous necessar y repair projects.

“We had 10 maintenance guys that took care of 1,100 items over the summer,” he said.

Items that needed repairs

included light fixtures, door hardware and pieces of furniture, and Bow man said some w indow screens and mattresses were also replaced. After these findings, there are plans to continue the process of inspection next year.

Maintenance issues in the residence halls can concern students, as reports of brow n water circulated around campus last week, but Bow man said occurrences like this are common due to the old pipes on campus.

“W hat happens is if a fire hydrant’s open or we get a big rush of water going to one location, it breaks loose iron buildup inside the pipes,” Bow man said.

In situations like this, he said maintenance crews w ill “f lush the buildings” by running water in sinks and showers to make sure

the strainers in faucets are functioning properly.

Another issue about which students have show n concern is a study show ing that the shower curtains found on campus last year were made of PVC, a material know n to transmit tox ic chemicals. A report of these findings was made public last semester.

According to Bow man, all the PVC shower curtains were replaced over the summer.

Sophomore Br y nne Volpe said she is relieved to know there are no longer carcinogens in the campus shower curtains.

“It’s definitely a step in the right direction,” she said.

“But there’s still that lingering question — why were they there in the first place? ” Contact Sara Schlecht at sschlecht01@saintmarys.edu

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Alumni residents reflect on history, traditions

By NICOLE SIMON News Writer

Editors’s note: This article is one in a series profiling the dorms. Previous articles have covered dorms built before Alumni Hall.

Alumni Hall was built in 1931 to house returning alumni on campus before being converted into a men’s dorm. Its Gothic architecture, fit with gargoyle-esque statues and elaborate stone carvings, hints at the deeply tradition-oriented dorm inside.

An integral aspect of that tradition is Fr. George Rozum, Alumni’s timehonored rector, who is currently serving his 40th year as leader of Alumni’s pack of “Dawgs.” Rozum is Notre Dame’s longest-serving rector, which creates a uniquely interesting dynamic within the hall, said senior Matthew Bartilotti, Alumni resident, former hall president and current R A. “Since [we] have a rector who’s been here for 40 years, there’s many generations of Notre Dame students who have been under Fr. George.

Notre Dame already has such a high legacy rate, and in Alumni, there’s so many kids who had a brother, dad, or uncle who lived under Fr. George,” Bartilotti said.

“So many guys come into

the dorm already passionate about Alumni because of stories they’ve heard about Fr. George from their dad, their brother, their uncle.

That’s something that’s unique.”

Since 1978, Rozum has cultivated a strong community in Alumni Hall focused on fraternity, which is fitting with the dorm’s iconic Greek letters, Delta Omega Gamma.

“I think to define the Alumni Hall community, I would say it’s a community predicated on ever ybody treating each other like brothers and like family and genuinely caring about each other, and that all stems from Fr. George,” Bartilotti said. “Fr. George addresses all his emails ‘Dear Blessed Men and Brothers of Alumni Hall,’ and he truly follows up on that and truly does care about each and ever y one of us like we were a son or a brother of his. So that really trickles down.”

That sense of community allows for a strong dorm identity to form, full of longstanding traditions. In the fall, Alumni hosts its annual Rivalr y Week with Dillon Hall that culminates in the Big Red Dawg Dance, the two dorms’ joint SY R. The dorm also celebrates an annual spirit week, referred to as Wake Week. The week’s events,

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Alumni Hall, which stands on South Quad, was established in 1931. Dorm members attribute its rich traditions to its involved community and rector Fr. George Rozum, who has served in the role for 40 years.

according to Alumni’s website, “remain shrouded in myster y.”

All the tradition and myster y doesn’t stop the Dawgs from some rather unconventional practices, however.

“We have plenty of commissioners,” Bartilotti said. “We have a milk commissioner.

We have an off-campus East Asian cuisine commissioner.

On the application, you can select which spot you want or create your own. We have a bunch of really silly and fun things like that.”

A new tradition in the works this year is called “Dawgtoberfest.”

Junior Adam Hellinghausen,

current hall president, is working on bringing this new potential signature event to life.

“Some guys went abroad last year and said that Oktoberfest in Europe was the coolest thing they’d ever done,” Hellinghausen said.

“They want to bring it back here. We could have charity events, like hot dog eating contest or something to raise money. And then beyond that, it’d be sort of just a festival to celebrate our dorm and our guys and just promote community and stuff like that.”

The community is what Hellinghausen is most

passionate about, he said.

“W hat I’m looking for ward to most, I’d say, about the presidency is not so much doing anything in particular, but more just getting to know the people of Alumni and really striving to listen to what they have to say, and just continuing the things that we’ve been doing,” he said. “We’re not just hanging out to have fun, we’re not just partying together, we’re not just studying together, we’re not just praying together. It’s all of those things in their time and place.”

Contact Nicole Simon at nsimon1@nd.edu

Right to Life club seeks to expand initiatives

By MORGAN JOHNSON News Writer

Since 1974, Notre Dame’s Right to Life club has been fighting to “promote and uphold the sanctit y of all human life from conception until natural death,” as stated in its mission. During the upcoming school year, the organization hopes to further emphasize and implement its original values while still expanding the breadth of its work.

The club was founded after the Roe v. Wade decision and continues to advocate the pro-life movement. President and senior Sadie Facile said her goal is to ensure that Right to Life ref lects the needs and wants of Notre Dame’s campus.

“We’ve added commissions to ref lect social justice issues that we find concerning,” Facile said. “We started an immigration commission this year to work on education and events that inform on the current political situation.”

The club also started a commission on sexual

dignity for this school year that will work with the club’s position on contraception.

Facile said this commission will strive to enhance clarity, education and advocacy surrounding the club’s position that it shares with the Catholic Church.

“The sexual integrity commission is concerned with promoting a holistic vision of the human person and that respects the dignity of all people,” senior and vice president of communications Matt Connell said.

Last year the club added a babysitting commission to its program but hopes to expand this service to fit the needs of Notre Dame graduate students.

In light of its new and reformed commissions, Right to Life has grown over the past several years in terms of member involvement and topics explored.

“Instead of focusing specifically on abortion, while that is a big part of our mission, we also promote a holistic view,” Facile said. “We’ve started incorporating immigration, those with disability

and those who are elderly.”

Furthermore, Right to Life is aiming to make prayer a larger priority in the club and to utilize prayer to create a culture of life on campus, club officers said.

Connell emphasized the importance of using those who have voices to represent those who may be voiceless or marginalized. Facile said she sees a need for Right to Life at Notre Dame because of political and social turmoil that has permeated college campuses.

“The world has a lot of brokenness,” Facile said. “We can see brokenness in sex scandals in Philadelphia. We see brokenness in the pain with immigration and separated families. Our club personally sees it a lot in the need for abortion in society. Our club stands to project love and dignity into those situations and seeks to affirm everyone of their worth. We’re trying to spread love in a very broken society.”

Right to Life’s first major event is Respect Life Week, which will take place during the first week of October.

Connell said the club wants to emphasize the week’s takeaway, which is advocating both a pro-woman and pro-life philosophy.

In addition to Respect Life Masses once a month in the Basilica and Angelus prayer weekly outside the Main Building, Right to Life will promote education and advocacy events this semester. These events include apologetics training and pregnancy resource training aimed at giving options to students on campus who may be pregnant. Connell said these resources are available to anyone who wants to learn more and help increase member involvement.

A few major goals the club has for this year are to grow its babysitting service, form a strong partnership with the family resource center and work to see that an abortion clinic does not open in South Bend.

“We really want to engage the student body and get people who don’t agree with our positions on certain issues to turn out to events and engage with us,” Connell

said. “We also want to meet them where they’re at and engage with that.”

Through its service commission, Right to Life works with Hannah’s House, which is a house for pregnant women and moms, and Project Mom, which is an organization that fundraises for baby showers for moms who otherwise would not receive one. In addition, Right to Life partners with senior residence club Holy Cross Village, Holy Family Adoption Agency and St. Joseph Health System Fertility Care Center.

“We want to engage with people who are pro-life but also those who aren’t because we really value dialogue,” Facile said. “In those conversations we explore the depth of human dignity and we learn so much from different dialogue. We’re open to people talking to us.”

The first all-club meeting for Right to Life w ill take place Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. in the LaFortune Ballroom.

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Special Olympics to host unified flag football game

By LUCY LYNCH News Writer

Before Notre Dame and Michigan take the field Saturday night, the rivalry weekend will begin with a different football game. Special Olympics Notre Dame will face Special Olympics Michigan in a unified flag football game Friday on Alumni Field at 5 p.m. The game is free.

The matchup is part of Special Olympics’ rivalry series that has been occurring for several years; however, this is the first time Notre Dame has played Michigan. The unified teams will include Notre Dame and Michigan students as well as athletes with intellectual disabilities from both communities.

“I’m really excited to represent Notre Dame not only in the sense of the football game with Michigan but also to connect the Special Olympics communities,” Special Olympics member and sophomore Ellie Olmanson said. (Editor’s note: Olmanson is a former Sports Writer for The Observer.)

Sophomore Sofie Palumbo, the Special Olympics Notre Dame event coordinator, said she is excited about the partnership.

“We have had a great partnership with Special Olympics Michigan club since the Special Olympics Notre Dame club started, so we really wanted to host this event,” she said.

Former Michigan wide receiver, Heisman Trophy winner and College GameDay host Desmond Howard will serve opposite former Notre Dame offensive lineman, ESPN’s Mike Golic, Jr., as honorary team captains.

“We’re hoping for a really great turnout,” Palumbo said.

“ESPN will be filming and coverage will hopefully be on ESPN or ESPN2 later that day.”

The goal of the flag football game and the unified teams is to promote inclusion among students and participants with intellectual disabilities, Palumbo said.

“Our focus for doing this with football is because Notre Dame loves it so much and there’s power of showing inclusion

through sports and especially with a rivalry people are so passionate about,” she said.

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Michigan match is the only flag football game on the calendar for Special Olympics Notre Dame this year, but the organization hopes to extend this event to other games and sports where there has been Special Olympics involvement, Palumbo said.

“I think it’s so cool that this game represents more than two rivals coming together,” Olmanson said. “It’s a huge step for the special needs community cuing the fact that this is the start of something that will hopefully be a tradition we can look forward to every year.”

Palumbo said Special Olympics would like to have a lot of people in attendance for the game.

“We’re really trying to ... make this a surreal experience for our athletes because they’re incredible,” Palumbo said.

Campus groups partner for Notre Dame: Unfiltered Observer Staff Report

Show Some Skin and Student Government have partnered to lead Notre Dame: Unfiltered to connect students with campus resources surrounding important issues, the organizations announced in a press release Thursday.

According to the release, the event “will share stories of identity and direct students to the many resources regarding race, socioeconomic status, sexual violence, mental health, faith and LGBTQ+ life at Notre Dame.”

It will take place Sept. 12 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the LaFortune Student Center.

A student ID is required to attend.

The show will combine previous Show Some Skin monologues with discussions, in four 30-minute sections. Leaders from various student groups will guide the conversations with small groups and discuss resources regarding the topics of the shows. A total of 14 additional organizations will sponsor the event alongside Student Government and Show Some Skin.

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By CIARA HOPKINSON News Writer

Dr. Keith Whittington never expected to write on the topic of free speech. As Whittington introduced himself before his lecture on his new book, “Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech,” on Thursday afternoon, he explained that he set aside projects more related to his specialty in constitutional interpretation to focus on an issue he could no longer ignore.

“I think it’s critically important that we collectively think seriously about what it is we want universities to do and what that implies about how we ought to conduct ourselves on campuses and what we ought to tolerate and engage in on college campuses,” Whittington said.

Whittington spoke as part of the Constitutional Studies’ effort to delve into American society’s conflicted attitude toward free speech and how it affects the conversations on college campuses. Whittington said that the issue of free speech is not a new one but that the American people have been grappling with its implications for as long as public opinion surveys have been used in research.

“Regardless of what kind of audience you ask, whether it’s the mass public or lawyers or college students or the like, overwhelmingly Americans tend to say that they value free speech, they value the First Amendment, they value tolerance, they think all those things are very important,” he said. “But then when you start pressing them on, ‘Well, what about this particular example of speech that you find particularly repellent?’ well, then they start trying to carve out exceptions.”

This dilemma, Whittington said, is part of the challenge of living in a liberal democracy, and it requires us to accept that supporting free speech means tolerating speech that is at times troubling. Whittington said this tolerance is especially important on college campuses, where the pursuit of knowledge is tantamount.

“In the context of a university in particular, we’re particularly concerned with trying to press forward to better understand the world,” he said. “And pressing forward to better understand the world means leaving lots of space open for people to make mistakes, for people to ask hard questions, for people to come to uncomfortable answers in

response to those hard questions. Universities lose a lot of their value if they can’t get to that anymore.”

Throughout his lecture, Whittington discussed the importance of having an open environment conducive to what he called “robust intellectual inquiry,” which means issues of free speech and universities are intimately connected both for that reason and for the danger of allowing universities any power that could be used to suppress speech.

“I think campus officials will do what they’ve always done, which is try to suppress speech they find particularly embarrassing and that they think might provoke public controversy and might draw unwanted news attention,” Whittington said. “That will stretch across a wide range of different conversations. That will sometimes mean silencing speakers on the right but also mean silencing speakers on the left. It will sometimes mean silencing minority speakers and sometimes it will mean silencing other kinds of speakers.”

An attack on any kind of free speech, Whittington said, is an attack on all free speech; a speaker with views outside the Paid Advertisement

norm can still have something to contribute to the conversation.

Yet controversy for controversy’s sake, Whittington said, should never be the goal of inviting a speaker to campus.

“When we’re making decisions about whom to invite to campus to speak, the goal should be neither to stack the deck with our closest allies nor to sprinkle in the most extreme provocateurs,” Whittington said. “The goal should be to make available to the campus community at large thoughtful representatives of serious ideas.”

That responsibility to choose speakers wisely lies with both faculty and students since students deserve to have power over the debates in which they engage. Whittington said protest is a form of intellectual exploration and advocacy and that students have a right to protest, as long as their efforts do not destroy the free speech of others.

“It’s perfectly reasonable to protest those ideas, to complain about those ideas, to have a public conversation about whether or not the given speaker has good ideas or bad ideas, whether or not it’s a good idea to invite a given speaker to campus and the like,” Whittington said. “But

disruptions, disinvitations, tearing down signs, throwing out papers are all efforts to quash the communication of ideas and shut down the free exchange of ideas among students and others on the college campus rather than to advance that free exchange of ideas by advancing better ideas in their stead.”

Ultimately, Whittington argued, university administration, faculty and students must allow themselves to be challenged in order to continue the debates integral to the purpose of the university.

“If students are to prepare themselves to critically engage the wide range of perspectives and problems they will encounter in the world across their lifetimes, they must learn to grapple with and critically examine ideas they find difficult and offensive,” Whittington said. “ ...

Recognizing and respecting the principles of free speech is challenging, but there is no alternative if we are dedicated to pursue truth. And ultimately, to pursue truth is the noble and important mission of the modern American university.”

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arrive to the city, the South Bend mayor’s office joined in the festivities — ceremoniously changing Michigan St. to “Fighting Irish Drive” on Monday.

“It’s all in good fun but we thought that with the rivalry being brought back to life it would be appropriate,” South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg said. “That way, especially as we have guests and fans of both teams coming into our downtown area, it’s a good chance to remind them just how supportive we are of our Fighting Irish.”

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“We recognize the Colectivo’s steadfast faith and tenacit y,” Universit y President Fr. John Jenkins said in the release. “It inspires our students to engage the world as forces for good when confronted w ith injustice and suffering.”

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of both Notre Dame and Michigan fans descending on South Bend for the game, Buttigieg said the city’s first priority is making sure everything runs smoothly.

“You’ll see a lot of our folks from the South Bend Police and Fire Department helping out with traffic and even in the stadium playing a role there,” he said. “But there are tons of things going on in our hotels, restaurants and of course it’s a big economic booster for the city as well.”

The city will also be celebrating the occasion by changing the color of the South Bend River Lights, a sculpture located alongside the St. Joseph

River that is typically multicolored.

“Ever since we’ve installed [the sculpture] in 2015, it’s become a great kind of touchpoint and shared public space that people from across the city enjoy,” Buttigieg said.

“Once in a while for a special occasion we’ll switch it from its regular rainbow-colored program to a particular color, and obviously it seemed like the right occasion to turn those lights green.”

Football season is a big part of the South Bend community and economy, Buttigieg said, so the festivities help the whole city get into the spirit of the season. Even so, he said the city’s relationship with the University

is becoming stronger even without football season.

“There’s so many students doing just really interesting, really important work that ties into life of the city in some way,” Buttigieg said. “ … The more of that we see the better, and when we do [partnerships with the University], it’s much more than just something like a service project but really an authentic relationship that’s getting stronger and stronger.”

Buttigieg said the street sign renaming is a tradition that paused when Notre Dame temporarily stopped playing Michigan in football.

After the series was revived, he said he wanted to renew

the tradition.

“Obviously [football is] one of the most special things about living in this area,” he said. “It’s difficult to believe that summer is coming to an end, but the great consolation of summer ending is the beginning of football season.”

Though a festivity like the street sign renaming has resulted in a f lurry of “amused” responses online, Buttigieg said the change is only temporary.

“It’s a symbolic ceremonial thing,” he said. “We’ll be back to normal after our victory on Saturday.”

and excavations of human remains, w ithout aid from the government or justice system, according to the release. In 2016, it discovered “more than 120 clandestine graves,” w ith the help of a tip, the release states. It has since recovered 300 bodies, as well as thousands of partial remains.

Jen k ins sa id t he awa rd honors t he orga ni zat ion’s “t ireless ef for ts on beha lf of t he fa milies of v ict ims, its heroic w it ness to huma n

dig nit y a nd its ser v ice to t he noble cause of just ice itself.”

“The prev ious recipients, each in their ow n way, have been pillars of conscience and integrit y,” Jenkins said in the release.

“The Universit y of Notre Dame recognizes that the Colectivo’s courageous work has draw n needed attention to v ictims’ disappearances and has helped to relieve some of the suffering v isited upon the families of the

v ictims of such intolerable v iolence. The Colectivo has made a marked difference for all Mex icans and for humankind at-large in our universal thirst for justice.”

Past recipients of the Notre Dame award include Judge Sergio Moro, who ser ved as the 2018 Universit y Commencement speaker, as well as former U.S. President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter, Mother Theresa, John Hume of Northern Ireland and Vinko Cardinal Puljic,

Archbishop of Sarajevo.

The award w ill be presented during a conference in Mex ico on Oct. 16. The award was first initiated in 1992, according to the press release, and was reimplemented in 2017 to recognize “women and men whose life and deeds have show n exemplar y dedication to the ideals for which the Universit y stands: faith, inquir y, education, justice, public serv ice, peace and care for the most v ulnerable.”

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conjunction with the visit.

ESPN senior publicist Anna Negron said in an email that on Friday, there will be three events with prizes for winners, taking place from noon to 4 p.m. at the set on Library Quad. Events include the Home Depot Corn Hole Challenge, Know Your Stuff Trivia, a photo booth, Coca-Cola product sampling, Bucket Pong, SkeeBall and Giant Jenga. College Football Live, a national radio broadcast, will broadcast live from the set at 3:30 p.m., Negron said.

Notre Dame associate athletics director Monica Cundiff said while ESPN handles the details of the program, the visit is important for the campus community.

“ESPN chooses the sites,” she said. “We have nothing to do with the fact that they are here. I think they pick the sites based on team’s records, how big the game is. Anyway, in just looking at this game and Michigan and Notre Dame haven’t played for a few years, it’s a huge game. It didn’t surprise us they chose to come here. We are definitely very welcome to have them.”

The first live look at the pit will be at 7 a.m. on Saturday morning, Cundiff said.

Students will be allowed into the pit starting at 6 a.m.

Cundiff said her role has been primarily to coordinate logistics. She said usual gameday traditions and procedures, including the player walk, will not be affected by the ESPN set’s presence on South Quad. She said it was an “advantage” that the game is at night since most of the set will be cleared away by 4 p.m. on the day of the game and will allow gameday procedures to continue as normal.

“We’re not even going to know their footprint is out there,” Cundiff said.

She underscored the unique nature of the visit from the University’s perspective.

“It’s certainly something we’re not going to say ‘no’ [to],” she said. “This is national exposure for our University.

We want that kind of thing to happen.”

The location of the set on Library Quad directly across the street from the stadium is the same as it was in 2012.

When ESPN came for a site visit to decide where the set would be located, they came with the intention of considering several campus locations for the set before deciding Library Quad was all “they wanted to see,” Cundiff said.

“Just the proximity to the stadium, and then, on game day, we all know what the campus looks like on Saturdays, so it’s a great path of fans coming towards the inner part of campus or going

cherished the years I have spent with all of you. Prism has been like a second home to me during my time at Notre Dame, and I am so grateful for all of the wonderful relationships I have built through this supremely important organization.”

Murphy‘s resignation comes approximately a week after the publication of his column “The statistics on Dreamers are a nightmare.” Bryan Ricketts, vice chair for membership of the Gay and Lesbian Alumni of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s, said the organization decided not to financially support PrismND this year unless Murphy resigned.

Senior Devon Harford will serve as the new president of PrismND, according to an email from the organization’s officer board to the group’s email list. Harford previously served as co-vice president of PrismND, beginning April 1, 2018.

“As you all know, Jeff Murphy has decided to resign as President of PrismND,” the officer board said in the email. “We want to thank Jeff for all the time, energy and effort that he has devoted to this organization. From his time as treasurer last year to his last five months serving as president, we appreciate all that he has brought to this team. Thank you Jeff, and we wish you all the best going forward.”

Murphy commended the new president and offered his continued support for the club.

“I have no doubt that Prism will flourish in the coming year,” he said in the email. “Our community could not be more blessed with the new incoming president. Under her leadership and the leadership of the remaining officer board, I know Prism is going to have one of its best years ever.”

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ESPN prepares for College GameDay at Notre Dame on Saturday. The show, which will be broadcast from Library Quad, recaps and previews football games each weekend during the fall season.

to see different spots,” she said.

Though ESPN has an increased presence for this game weekend, NBC remains Notre Dame’s broadcast partner. Cundiff said College GameDay’s visit did not present a problem to the NBC staff.

“NBC is our partner,” she said. “We’re going to take care of them. NBC also understands who ESPN [is] and what GameDay is all about.

It’s just as much exposure for them as it is for us. We definitely restrict ESPN on things, and that’s because of our partnership with NBC. … I think at the end of the day we’re all in it together, to make a great experience for the nationally televised audiences as well as the fans here on campus.”

Cundiff lauded ESPN for its cooperation this week, noting that Notre Dame has made things a little somewhat trickier for the broadcast company.

“It’s been great for me

working with ESPN this week, in the sense of from their perspective we have made it a little more difficult then they typically have seen from city to city that they go to, but it’s because we follow proper protocol,” she said. “I’m not just making a decision on electric, or water, or they wanted to cut some trees … they have a cooking segment on the show.

Putting them in touch with the fire chief, putting them in touch with landscape services, with our utility department. They go to a lot of other campuses and they don’t do that, where I think that’s another example of Notre Dame having pride in itself. They’re the experts in their field.

We’re not going to do something that affects any department on campus negatively. It actually makes me feel good that ESPN says, ‘You guys do it right. You’re tough.’ But at the end of the day we’re in it to do it the right way.”

On the whole, Cundiff expressed a hope that the publicity that comes with College GameDay’s visit will further brandish Notre Dame’s image.

“It’s great national exposure. Everyone, from students, to alums, to the subway alum [Notre Dame fans who didn’t actually attend the University], we are all proud of this University,” Cundiff said. “So any national exposure in a positive light, we want to see that and embrace that. Because we know that 12-year-old kid watching the football game may have dreams of either being a student athlete or student at Notre Dame. So this is another one of those opportunities to get some good positive exposure. And if the Irish can win at the end of the day, it makes it even better.”

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“An issue that has stood out Continued from page 1 to me in particular the last three years or so especially a teenager over four decades has been the harshness, calago. As a result of the inves- lousness and cruelt y that tigation, Tobin’s name has has come to characterize the become entangled in the attitudes of many, including narrative as the Catholic many Catholics, towards imcommunit y and many migrants,” he said.

Instead of using the lecAmericans look to answer questions such as who knew ture time to discuss the about the abuse and why union we share w ith immimore serious action was not grants as a “nation of imtaken. In light of these ques- migrants,” Tobin’s objective tions, Tobin acknowledged was to tr y to understand the news of the abuse and its the foundation upon which many Americans have beimpact on the Church.

“In the last month, it seems come unsy mpathetic to the that our Church has been suffering of men, women brought to our knees by the and children who immigrate bitter fruits of a toxic culture of to the U.S. Tobin said these hardclergy sexual abuse and cover up,” he said. “As Catholics we hearted attitudes say a great look on aghast, and we ask, deal about the priorities of ‘How did it ever get to this American people.

“We’ve reached a place point?’ ... but that’s not the topic I’m going to talk about where compromise is unthinkable because evtonight.”

Tobin then moved on to er ything is simply too the main topic of his lecture important. ... People are

treating politics and policy agendas as their God — their idol,” Tobin said.

For this reason, Tobin said, ver y little agreement can be found between either side of the debate on such religiously controversial issues as immigration.

“From a practical standpoint, it’s worth noting that this river is f lowing in the wrong direction,” he said.

“That is, the teaching and values of our faith should be informing our politics.

Not the other way around.

Political means are to ser ve the common good.”

Tobin said Catholics are encouraged not to abandon their political beliefs and parties but to stay and tr y and advocate for change from the inside.

“W hen politics become your idol, there are at least three variants on how this can go terribly w rong,” he said. “First, people let their bad politics overtake their

faith in terms of what holds the most sway in their conscience. … Secondly, people let their ideas warp the actual proclamations of their faith.”

To this point, Tobin examined the justification of separation of families at the border through the use of scripture. As Satan tempted Jesus in the w ilderness by quoting the Bible, he said, many Americans are pulled astray by a similar per version of scripture.

“The third variant, people discarding faith altogether, leav ing the political realm unchallenged,” Tobin said.

Though secularization has allowed a great amount of progress and acceptance to arise in the U.S. toward the LGBTQ communit y, Tobin said it has also changed people’s attitudes toward immigrants.

“Research shows that Evangelicals who don’t regularly attend church are less

hostile to gay people than those who do, but they’re more hostile to African Americans, Latinos and Muslims,” he said, quoting an article from The Atlantic.

Referencing a speech from Pope Francis, Tobin said fear is hardening the hearts of so many Americans to the suffering of the people who immigrate to the U.S. to escape the dangers of their homeland for the safety of themselves and of their families.

According to Jesus’s teachings, Tobin said, it should not be so.

“You see, friends, a Samaritan sees the world differently,” he said. “The ancient man by the roadside is not seen as something potentially dangerous or unclean, but is someone whose sufferings we are called to share.”

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position of director of first year experience and retention. This will enable smooth communication between the various organizations across campus, she said.

“That’s going to be somebody who dual-reports to Karen Johnson, vice president of student affairs, and myself,” Chambers said. “So, [with the director of first year experience and retention] we’re going to try as one

of the key points of bridging student life and student academics together so that there’s a cohesive first year experience, but also first year students have different kinds of concerns and crises and to sort of work together in a concerted kind of way to serve those students.”

The College decided to add the director of academic advising and registrar in order to assist in making the two offices more cohesive.

“We’re going to try to integrate these two offices more … so there’s less walking a piece of paper back and forth between the two offices and we can again work together so students aren’t being run around as much,” Chambers said. “We are just down the hall, but still. Sometimes they send you to the registrar and then they send you back here, and you know if we’re together we might be able to streamline some of those tasks a little more.”

Chambers said she hopes combining these offices and their services will make it easier for faculty to assist students throughout their academic journey.

“If we’re not chasing things down and reminding each other of things so much, if we’re working as a unit, then we should have more time to advise our students, to work with our students, and those kinds of things,” she said.

Handling the challenges that may accompany such close and frequent work with students is one of the aspects of being the dean of student academic services that appealed to Chambers, she said.

“There’s something new to think about or something new to learn,” she said. “So personally, that’s what I like.

But I also am interested in trying to work with the administration on studentcentered policy. So coming from the faculty and being at that kind of level discussion I think gives a different view of how we’re thinking about students and student services. So I think that will be useful for Saint Mary’s and that service to Saint Mary’s is enriching to me.”

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person could legitimately do it,” Chambers said. “So we reorganized a lot of the tasks she did.”

Chambers’ duties center around developing College policy, serving on committees and advising on highlevel advising issues, she said.

“We’re doing a little bit of revision at the College to try to serve students better, and so this division is trying to pull together some of the services that we offer to students so that we might be able to do work across groups,” Chambers said.

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Right need not be right Connor Mulvena Associate Sports Editor

In a world lined by tragedy and disappointment, it can be quite easy to give up hope. With the new age widespread availability of information, we are constantly reminded of the oppressed around the world, and we’re left with an uneasy feeling. Amidst this rampant persecution, many downtrodden groups of our world are forgotten. We forget about those experiencing hardship daily who may not be featured on the 9 o’clock news. We forget those on the outskirts of society, so quietly repressed we barely remember their existence. We forget about those who need our help the most. So I write this column to turn the reader’s attention to a group which has been mocked, ridiculed and, worst of all, forgotten, here in the United States. A group filled with pioneers, intellectuals of the highest degree and innovators who could make the world a better place for all but has been quieted by truly evil corporations and ignorant social institutions — lefties.

My name is Connor Mulvena, and I am left handed. It took a lot for me to reveal this fact to you just now. I’ve always been afraid that my friends, peers and even my extended family might shun me as a result. I’ve spent my life writing in hiding, completing my homework in dark corners hunched over a tiny flashlight, hoping no one would witness a pen in my left hand. I couldn’t take part in ordinary athletics in my youth — if parents saw me shoot a basketball with my left hand or kick a soccer ball with the opposite foot, I feared they might tell their children to stay away. But I soldier on.

And let me be perfectly clear — I’m actually left handed. I’m not one of those fake lefties who writes with their left but throws with their right or any other disgusting combination. I write this to raise awareness for those like myself, not these charlatans who lack the courage to pick a side. They’re not one of us; they don’t come to the meetings, and frankly, they wouldn’t be welcome even if they tried. But enough about me. It’s important you all realize the nature of the oppression I describe, led by a strong and unrelenting right fist that controls all.

You must understand that the oppression of lefties in American is pervasive. It touches all aspects of life, and the smallest of those, the ones the right-handed take for granted, are the worst of all.

Think about all of the social customs tailored for righties with no regard for those who hang from the

left side. We always talk about the importance of a solid handshake.

It must be firm, but not too firm, brief, but not disrespectfully so. Yet we never talk about the possibility of a left-handed shake. Do you understand how utterly humiliating and nerve-racking a handshake can be for a lefty in this climate?

We look like buffoons as we muster the courage and strength to raise our non-dominant hand in greeting. Those I meet give me a look of confusion after greeting me, as if I were some sort of savage alien from a planet unbeknownst to them. I personally haven’t left my home or dorm in years, fearing I may encounter a new person and have to extend my right hand.

What about writing, in school and beyond? Our “pedagogues” force us from an early age to write from left to right. They teach us that this is the only way, the “right” way, how painfully ironic. Kindergarten teachers sit beside righties with a helping hand as they begin to craft letters on page for the first time, but they ignore the lonely lefty in the corner with ink blots smeared all over his precious hand as if he had been finger painting on his own.

The most hurtful of all are the colloquialisms which subtly jab at our very existence. We’re told to “do what is right.” My own faith undermines my dexterity.

In Ecclesiastes, it is said: “A wise man’s heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish man’s heart directs him toward the left.” What am I to make of this? My life is a constant reminder of my imperfections, because in this world, in this nightmare of a society, the masses subscribe to the hurtful notion that right means correct.

Of course, it would be foolish of me to generalize and claim that all righties are evil. There are a few among you who exhibit kindheartedness. I’m even friends with a few of you, much to my chagrin. But still, awareness must be raised. So I’ll end by saying this: to the righties of the world, please remember us. You may not always notice our insecurities, but know they are there and know we need your help.

Because unfortunately, it’s a righthanded world. Martin Luther King Jr. is often cited as saying, “The time is always right to do the right thing.” I imagine it’s easy to be that encouraging when you’re right handed. I hope my readers can take this advice, but instead, for once, go left.

Contact Connor Mulvena at cmulvena@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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She is a much-venerated saint, with a name that sounds like chimes gently stirred by the breeze: Cecilia. She is honored for maintaining her virginity and embracing spiritual rather than physical love, even after her marriage to her beloved Valerian in the early days of Christianity. The sacred music Cecilia heard as she prayed and undertook penance enshrined her as the patroness of musicians. Virgins and virtuosos alike looked to her for inspiration. After her martyrdom, Cecilia rested relatively forgotten and undisturbed for a millennium, but the church eventually had need of her again.

The years following the Protestant reformation were difficult for the church, and 1598 saw a series of attacks and conflicts that threatened the power of Rome.

Early in the year Henry IV of France granted Huguenots equal rights with Catholics. The Catholic King Sigismund of Sweden and Poland was defeated by the Protestant forces of his uncle, Charles; Sigismund was soon deposed. Even developments in science seemed to challenge innocent faith as Tycho Brahe charted the heavens in his newly published star catalog.

Having suffered in the political and scientific realms, the Vatican was determined to fire up spiritual zeal with dramatic ‘discoveries’ of its own. Church officials located and exhumed Cecilia’s body in 1599. Those present were amazed to find her to be “incorrupt,” never having been decomposed. Officials also reported a “delightful flower-like odor,” which wafted from the coffin. Cecilia was declared the first of all incorrupt saints.

Church hierarchy taught the inevitable lesson that only the one, true Church — itself incorruptible — could be the home for such a miraculous event.

Unfortunately the innocent spirituality of Cecilia has been debased in some of her namesake parishes. St. Cecilia parish in Oak Cliff, Texas, is housed in a Romanesque building, once ravaged by fire and rebuilt through the hard work of its devoted members. Cecilia herself might have been proud of the musical heritage of this part of south Dallas, as blues musicians — including the Vaughan brothers, Stevie Ray and Jimmy — grew up within the sound of its bells.

The pastor who oversaw the rebuilding of the church, Edmundo Paredes, is under investigation for allegedly molesting three teenage boys in the parish more than a decade ago. Paredes was already under scrutiny by the Diocese of Dallas for stealing more than $60,000 last year. He admitted to the theft, was suspended from the ministry and removed from St. Cecilia in June 2017. As the sexual assault allegations have been unearthed, the theft of the funds may be germane: Paredes has recently disappeared and may have left for his native Philippines. Paredes had been the pastor of St. Cecilia for 27 years.

Ordained in 1977, James Brzyski served as associate pastor at Philadelphia’s St. Cecilia church. His time at St. Cecilia was

especially destructive as he molested a number of boys, threatening them if they ever spoke of his assaults. These boys tried to live normal lives, but they were tormented by the encounter with the pure evil of a predator operating under cover of religious authority, and a number took their lives years later. Those that struggled on dealt with severe depression and addiction issues; Brzyski had broken many lives to feed his own desires.

The Philadelphia archdiocese did not notify law enforcement or parishioners about his sexual misconduct. Brzyski walked away from church-ordered rehabilitation, worked as a high school teacher in New Jersey and even ran a child’s birthday party business in Philadelphia for seven years. During this time Brzyski brazenly telephoned one of his St. Cecilia victims, apparently in response to a newspaper announcement about the birth of the now-married man’s first child, a boy.

“Hey. How are you doing?” Brzyski asked.

His victim recognized the voice. “What do you want?”

Explaining that he had heard about the baby, Brzyski chillingly remarked, “I’d love to meet him sometime.” Brzyski seemed to relish his role as an unrepentant monster.

A 2005 grand jury identified him as one of 63 priests credibly accused of sexually abusing children in the Philadelphia archdiocese. Investigators estimated he may have assaulted more than 100 children.

Brzyski was defrocked by the church and undertook a tortuous effort to stay ahead of the law, with stops in West Hollywood, California, and Kenosha, Wisconsin.

He was arrested for drunken driving in New Mexico, and later moved to Dallas.

Neighbors drove him from one apartment complex when they learned of his predatory past, then when a reporter from Philadelphia who tracked him to Texas confronted him at Dallas’ Serendipity apartments in September of 2017, Brzyski bolted and was found dead of an apparent heart attack a few weeks later in a Fort Worth motel. No one claimed the body.

The recent grand jury report out of Pennsylvania documents more than a thousand incidents of sexual assault by hundreds of priests in that state alone, protected by a hierarchy determined to treat each incident as an aberration that should be handled quietly and privately.

While this corruption is a stain on the reputation of the Church, it threatens to become the reputation of the church unless positive, definite steps are taken against these crimes, including support for eliminating all statutes of limitations for the sexual assault of children. Pious prattling about “respecting life” is meaningless unless and until we all work to acknowledge and address this crippling corruption.

Ray Ramirez is an attorney practicing, yet never perfecting, law in Texas while waiting patiently for a MacArthur Genius Grant. You may contact him at patrayram@sbcglobal.net The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Letters to the editor

Dear Fr. Jenkins Dear Fr. Jenkins, I see that you have addressed both the McCarrick scandal and the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report.

While speaking out on these two issues is important for all church leaders, whether they were directly involved or not, I feel that your words on both occasions were sadly deficient for a priest whose job is to be a moral example to your flock and a leader of the entire Notre Dame community. I am disappointed that you did not show more active leadership by not taking any action to right these horrible crimes of clerical sexual abuse and their cover ups that are destroying the lives of so many abused children and adults as well as the faith of so many Catholics. I feel it’s necessary to explain my criticisms more fully in this letter in the hopes that it might move you or someone else at Notre Dame to do the right thing by revoking the honorary degrees of abusers and those who covered for them.

First, please let me explain why your statement on Aug. 2 about McCarrick serves only to protect the disgraced cardinal’s reputation. Your letter refers to only one of the many accusations then known against McCarrick, thus minimizing the severity of the accusations against the ex-cardinal. In fact, he had also been accused of sexually abusing the first child he baptized, abuse that lasted over the course of several decades.

The victim in question nearly committed suicide as a result. The details of this alleged crime are not merely “reprehensible” (as you put it in your letter) but unthinkably evil and despicably satanic. Why did you not mention this very serious and disturbing allegation in your decision to not revoke McCarrick’s degree?

Now given your stated position on McCarrick’s alleged crimes brought before the New York Review Board, I understand that accusations and allegations are not enough to revoke an honorary degree in your mind. Let me point out that it is problematic to think a Notre Dame honorary degree is more important than a cardinal’s red hat that the pope already revoked prior to a canonical trial. You owe it to your fellow Notre Dame alumni to explain your reasoning on this matter more fully.

Let’s pretend for a moment that you are right to wait for the canonical trial to verify the allegation of minor abuse before making a decision. That doesn’t explain why your statement ignored secret settlements paid out in the Archdiocese of Newark in 2005 and 2007 because McCarrick had been credibly accused of abusing seminarians. Those settlements, reported on the same day as Cardinal Dolan’s report on the decision of his archdiocesan review board, are not disputed by McCarrick and the gory details have been widely reported online.

On the basis of these settlements alone you should have

revoked the degree. In this era of #MeToo, is it wise for Notre Dame to ignore the sexual abuse of adults, especially young seminarians who are abused by their powerful superior, a cardinal whose life should have been a moral example to the entire Roman Catholic Church?

Your Aug. 2 statement completely ignores the fact that the Archdiocese of Newark and Diocese of Metuchen felt there was enough validity in the two claims of the abused young men that Newark Archbishop John Myers settled the cases for a total of $180,000. I think we can reasonably assume that the church doesn’t just hand out that much money without having a good reason to suspect the abuse claims are true. Also, don’t you think that McCarrick’s keeping these settlements secret shows he is at the very least guilty of covering up what should have been public knowledge? How many other mothers’ young sons might he have potentially or actually abused since 2007 because the church kept the settlements secret? In the wake of the 2002 Dallas Charter and the church’s oft-repeated promises never again to hide sexual abuse, wouldn’t revoking McCarrick’s degree be a worthy stand for Notre Dame to take as a powerful and clear rebuke of both clerical sex abuse and episcopal cover ups?

By refusing to revoke his honorary degree and minimizing the allegations against McCarrick, as you did in your Aug. 2 statement, you put his reputation ahead of the welfare of his victims and are tacitly approving of the church’s complicity in keeping McCarrick’s secrets unknown to millions of faithful American Catholics.

This is the very spirit of clericalism, defined as putting the church’s clergy on a pedestal above the laity, that Pope Francis has denounced again and again, most recently in his Aug. 20 “Letter to the People of God.” I believe that Notre Dame could and should be a leader in calling for justice in the case of ex-Cardinal McCarrick, especially because of his deep ties to our University. Sadly your statement declined to make any kind of effort toward making Notre Dame a part of the solution to the problem of sexual abuse and its cover up in the American Catholic Church.

Regarding your Aug. 21 remarks about the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, I will briefly note three things. First, there is absolutely no call in this statement for specific action to address this crisis beyond your short prayer. Three popes, countless bishops and other ordained Catholic leaders like you have been calling for prayer to solve this crisis since 2002 and yet here we are, with still no standard process of holding bishops accountable for their cover ups of so many unspeakable crimes, whether in Newark or Pennsylvania or anywhere else. The people of God demand justice and an end to the cover up, and it’s absolutely

blasphemous for you and other Catholic leaders to hide behind prayer as an excuse for not making meaningful reforms. This is another example of you shrinking from taking any kind of active role in ensuring justice for the victims and accountability for the bishops’ egregious failings. Second, I take issue with the following statement: “They [the stories in the report] are appalling because some bishops, shepherds called to protect the flock, seemed often to have opened the gates to let the wolves prey on the sheep, and seem sometimes to have done more to protect the wolves than the sheep.”

If you had actually read the report, you would never have used the words “seemed” or “seem.” The report, as well as the findings of the previous John Jay Report in 2004, unequivocally show that the bishops (1) absolutely did turn a blind eye to the evil priests devouring the laity’s children and (2) unquestionably protected those monsters in Roman collars by hiding their crimes and moving them from parish to parish. Your language here minimizes the reality of these crimes. Finally, you claim to “feel deep sadness and shame” over the grand jury report’s findings. Do you feel sad enough to do something about it though? The report clearly shows that Cardinal Donald Wuerl repeatedly covered for sexual abusers while serving as the bishop of Pittsburgh.

Recently North Catholic High School in Pittsburgh decided to remove Cardinal Wuerl from the school’s name. There would be no better way to show your disgust for the church’s crimes laid bare in the grand jury report than to revoke Cardinal Wuerl’s honorary degree, preferably at the same time that you get rid of McCarrick’s. It’s deeply embarrassing to men and many in the Notre Dame community that our University’s leadership continues to honor these men.

It is never too late to admit that you were wrong and for you to do the right thing by revoking both the honorary degrees of Wuerl and McCarrick. Justice delayed is justice denied, so the sooner you revoke the degrees the better. Furthermore, I hope Notre Dame will do more than ask for prayers for victims while guilty bishops still hold their offices. As you put it so well in your inaugural address in 2005: “Let no one ever again say that we dreamed too small.” My dream is that Notre Dame’s president will help make my alma mater will be a key player in ending this scourge of clerical sexual abuse forever. If you are unwilling to do so, I respectfully suggest that you should resign so someone else can finally do the right thing.

Sincerely, William Kurtz class of ’06 Aug. 24

Response to Dan Lawton’s letter in The Observer Dear Fr. Joyce, Moose and Ara, I trust our Lord and Our Lady are treating you well in paradise. I’m writing to you at the request of an old friend, Dan Lawton, who is quite upset about ND’s apparent sellout to the almighty dollar — and asked someone to write you to explain what’s happening and why. I suppose we’re still struggling with that whole “serving two masters” thing. Anyway, as you fellas know, this criticism has been around for decades, probably since Knute Rockne threatened to resign unless the Holy Cross priests built him a big stadium. Dan’s dismay stems from Notre Dame’s participation in the Shamrock series, which involves taking the Irish football team around the country to play in unique (i.e. non-college football) venues, while sporting radically re-designed uniforms. This year’s design doesn’t include gold helmets but does include Yankee pinstriped pants. I’m sure I don’t have to remind you guys the Shamrock series is really an old Notre Dame tradition with a catchy new name.

I mean taking the Notre Dame football team on the road to non-traditional venues was how Notre Dame

built its national reputation and that our epic battles vs. Army at non-football cathedrals like Yankee Stadium are a part of Notre Dame lore. Also, Moose, you’d probably remember that you never wore a gold helmet, that they didn’t appear at Notre Dame until the 1950s and that Notre Dame has won seven of its 11 national championships without a gold helmet.

Now I’m all for tradition. I mean who doesn’t love parietals? But a lot has changed since you guys were in charge, so let me be direct: The fathers of today’s top recruits barely remember our last national championship, our last Heisman winner was eligible for an AARP membership two years ago and despite all the talk about global warming, South Bend’s weather is still not Miami, Southern California or Palo Alto, California. Frankly, what we need to do to attract scholar-athletes who can compete in the classroom and on the gridiron continues to evolve in ways you can’t even imagine.

My friend Dan is concerned that each of you may be spinning in your graves over the Shamrock series and this year’s uniforms. However, my guess is that

you’re already dizzy from all the spinning you’ve done as this evolution has occurred. Examples of this evolution are numerous and include trading our sacred status as a true independent for a quasi-independent status through our ACC football affiliation, replacing the stadium’s grass field with FieldTurf, installing permanent lights to take advantage of games played in primetime and most recently, adding a video board to our twice-expanded stadium. As for the Shamrock Series and the Yankee/Notre Dame uniforms, please send Dan a sign to let him know that while you’d prefer that the helmet looked less like Darth Vader, you’re no longer spinning. Instead, you’re just looking forward to kicking Michigan’s assets Saturday night in front of a history-making, stadium-shaking, green-wave-quaking home crowd and a large national audience tuned in to our very own television network.

Yours in Our Lady, Bill McKee class of ’83 Aug. 28

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Know what you are up against this year, and do the necessary groundwork that will provide you with a clear passage to bring about the changes that will make your life better. Enrich your knowledge and skills by looking to experts and using the best and most efficient means to reach your set goals. Put emotions on the back burner. Your numbers are 7, 15, 22, 28, 30, 37, 46.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Use your wit and charm to overcome any controversy you face. Getting along with your peers and friends will make it easier to get the help you need to get things done on time. Energy and enthusiasm are the answer, not anger.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Dig in and take care of your responsibilities. If you aren’t sure what to do, ask an expert. Learn as you go and be open to change. Opportunity will come your way if you are easy to get along with.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Someone will not be honest with you. Listen and ask questions; you’ll be able to decipher what’s fact and what’s fiction. Problems with a child, lover or friend should be taken seriously, but also handled with diplomacy.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Keep emotions out of your professional or financial deals. Look at the practical aspect of whatever situation or partnership you face, and make a focused effort to do what’s right and best for everyone. Refuse to let anyone meddle in your affairs.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A simple, direct approach is favored. If you want to enforce change, make sure it’s doable before you share your plans.

Overstepping your boundaries will cause a dispute. Diplomacy and charm will help you get your way.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Take better care of your health and emotional states of mind. Address issues quickly to avoid undue stress. Get help if you feel you need to talk to an expert. Make personal changes that will improve your lifestyle.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Look for alternative ways to do things. Being ready for opposition or setbacks will help you remain in control. If you need help, ask. Being open with someone you share space, finances or pursuits with will encourage success.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Think before you say or do something you regret.

Get the facts and filter through them carefully before you indulge in a verbal scrimmage with someone who may be privy to more information than you.

Focus inward and on creative endeavors.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Share with someone you love to spend time with. The plans you make will give you something to look forward to. Don’t let anyone disrupt your plans using emotional manipulation or jealousy to make you feel bad.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Clear the air before you try to start something new. Deal with feelings and situations that could stand in your way as you move forward. Be open to change and be willing to listen, and new opportunities will unfold.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Put more time and effort into personal gains. Invest in yourself and the way you present yourself. If you look and feel good, you will send a positive message that will open doors. A partnership can be revised to better suit your needs.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Size up your situation, decide what you want to do and make it happen. Take control instead of waiting to see what someone else is going to do. If you forge ahead and step up your game, others will respond.

Birthday Baby: You are imaginative, outgoing and loving. You are flexible and opportunistic.

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NFL | BROWNS 35, LIONS 17

OSU controversy affects us all Madeline Karnes Sports Writer

As we prepare to say goodbye to summer, a sweet consolation prize rounds the corner: college football season.

The buzz surrounding a team’s most recent inpractice victories, new additions and coaching moments grows. While this holds true from campus to campus, some teams have recently been the target of a more consistent national commentary — this is where the Ohio State University football team currently lies.

The recent controversy over Urban Meyer’s position as head coach has created dialogue on the OSU campus and beyond. On Sunday, the generally esteemed coach received the news that due to the way he allegedly mishandled the domestic assault allegations made against previous assistant coach Zach Smith, he will be suspended from coaching the Ohio State football program for the first three games of the season.

Regardless of one’s personal football fandom, many have taken the liberty of expressing their feelings toward Meyer and his role in the Smith situation. Should Meyer be held accountable for his potential knowledge of Smith’s inappropriate actions? While this has been a hot topic since Meyer was placed on paid administrative leave Aug. 1, it is the temperament within the OSU community which has the most dimension.

An issue of this depth and sensitivity causes an unavoidable rift in any campus culture. More than 200 people came together on Aug. 6 for a rally in support of Meyer, waving signs with captions such as “We Stand with Urban” and “Me too!

I support Urban Meyer.”

While their OSU gear and team spirit had the potential to bring the university and associated fans together, the support clashes with a

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discomfort spread across campus as a result of what many believe was Meyer’s failure to uphold the expected values of an Ohio State community member.

Some fans have expressed concern that Meyer decided to put football above all else, creating a toxic environment on campus. Rivaling the support for Meyer, this significant distaste for Meyer’s silent knowledge of the scandal is also widespread. Inherently, this split in opinion divides the Ohio State community on and off campus.

In today’s Sports Authority, I do not attempt to tell you what you should believe in terms of the controversy surrounding Smith and Meyer; rather, I point out the threat situations such as these pose in terms of the community mindset.

College football season should be a time to embrace the pre-season buzz and elevate the on-campus excitement as the first game nears. The actions taken by coaches and athletes alike, such as those in the situation of Smith and Meyer, threaten the relative innocence and optimism at the beginning of the season. While friendly rivalries fuel the popular athletic dialogue, this rivalry of opinion has built a partition in the fan base and student body.

By no means do I suggest that an issue of this capacity should be ignored, yet it is crucial to consider how this situation reveals the impact college football has on a campus as a whole. This recent conversation suggests that it is time for coaches, players and all involved parties take further responsibility for their actions — if not for the team itself, than for the group who falls under the collective title of “fan.”

Contact Madeline Karnes at mkarnes@nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Mayfield dominant as Cleveland defeats Detroit Associated Press

DETROIT — Baker Mayfield threw for 138 yards in a dominant first half for Cleveland, and the Browns wrapped up the preseason with a 35-17 victory over the Detroit Lions on Thursday night.

Mayfield completed a 41yard pass to Devon Cajuste on the first play from scrimmage, and the top overall pick in this year’s draft looked sharp throughout his two quarters directing Cleveland’s offense.

With Tyrod Taylor atop the depth chart at quarterback, the Browns are likely to bring Mayfield along slowly. But if the rookie doesn’t play again for a while, this was a nice note to finish on before the start of the regular season.

Nick Chubb and Matthew Dayes ran for touchdowns for Cleveland in what was generally a battle of backups.

The Lions closed out an uninspiring preseason under new coach Matt Patricia.

They were booed off the field at halftime by the sparse crowd at Ford Field with the score 25-0.

Jake Rudock did little to distinguish himself in the

competition to back up quarterback Matthew Stafford.

When he was taken out late in the second quarter, the Lions had been outgained 261-40 and had only two first downs — and both of those came on Cleveland penalties.

Matt Cassel took over at quarterback and led Detroit down the field in the 2-minute drill. Then, defensive lineman Nate Orchard made a leaping interception near the line of scrimmage and ran it back 64 yards for a touchdown with 28 seconds left in the half.

Cleveland went for 2, and the Lions were called for roughing the passer. Detroit was then called for having 12 men in formation. Dontrell Hilliard eventually ran the ball in to make it 25-0.

Dayes had 77 yards on eight carries, and his touchdown came from 42 yards out in the second quarter.

The Lions had 2 yards rushing in the first half.

Rudock returned to the game in the second half, but it was more of the same for Detroit until the Lions finally scored a couple touchdowns in the fourth quarter.

The Lions were outscored 68-16 in the first half this preseason.

Highlight Orchard’s touchdown could be a big play for the 25-yearold lineman. A second-round draft pick in 2015, he started 11 games that season but has only two starts since.

No rush The Lions finished the preseason with just two sacks in four games. Christian Ringo had one Thursday just before the 2-minute warning in the second half.

Injuries Browns: Linebacker James Burgess left in the first half and was evaluated for a concussion. Linebacker Justin Currie injured his knee.

Lions: Safety Rolan Milligan (chest) was injured on the first play from scrimmage.

Running back Zach Zenner (back) and tackle Corey Robinson (foot) were also hurt during the game. Safety Marcus Cromartie went down near midfield in the fourth quarter and walked off gingerly with a hip injury.

nfl | CHIEFS 33, PACKERS 21

Chiefs’ backups rally for win over feeble Packers Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Rookie safety Armani Watts intercepted two passes , Makinton Dorleant returned another pick for a touchdown, and the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Green Bay Packers 33-21 on Thursday night as both teams rested their starters in their preseason finale.

Chad Henne, Matt McGloin and Chase Litton were all solid under center for Kansas City while Patrick Mahomes watched from the sideline.

Harrison Butker was perfect on four field-goal attempts.

The Chiefs’ Byron Pringle, an undrafted free agent who’s had a strong preseason, caught four passes for 122 yards before leaving early in the second half with a hamstring injury.

DeShone Kizer started for Green Bay and was 5 of 7 for 57 yards with a touchdown

and a pick. A 2017 secondround draft choice of the Browns, Kizer is expected to back up Aaron Rodgers after this week’s trade of erstwhile backup Brett Hundley to the Seahawks.

Aaron Jones, who will begin the season serving a twogame suspension, ran for 34 yards and a touchdown as the Packers built a 21-10 lead.

But the Chiefs’ third-string offense moved the ball at will, and Dorleant’s pick-6 early in the fourth quarter put an exclamation mark on their comeback.

Trade news The Chiefs agreed to trade OL Parker Ehinger to Dallas for CB Charvarius Ward, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Thursday night. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal was not expected to become official until Friday, a day before

roster cuts.

Home cooking Packers coach Mike McCarthy allowed most of his starters to remain in Green Bay rather than travel for a game in which they wouldn’t play. That included Rodgers, who a day earlier signed a four-year, $134 million extension that could keep him with the team through the 2023 season.

Injuries Among the Packers headed into the season with injury questions are LBs Oren Burks and WR Jake Kumerow, both of whom have shoulder injuries, and RB Devante Mays, who did not play against the Chiefs with a hamstring injury. Kansas City was without SS Eric Berry, who has missed most of camp with a heel injury and whose status for the opener remains unclear.

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Notre Dame pulls off victory over Cincinnati Observer Sports Staff Notre Dame rebounded well from its first loss of the season to defeat Cincinnati in a come-frombehind victory, 2-1, at Alumni Stadium, with Olivia Wingate and Karin Muya scoring the Irish goals.

After its first loss of the season to Butler last week, Notre Dame made a formational switch from 4-3-3 to 3-5-2. Notre Dame head coach Nate Norman said he decided to make the change as a result of giving up some counterattacks, which was how Butler exploited the defense in Notre Dame’s 4-1 loss. “[W]hen we play with four at the back, what we are really doing is pushing our outside backs very high up and that three gives them that [defensive] stability to really limit the opponents’ chances, especially on the counterattack,” Norman said.

This formational change, however, took some time for the Irish to adjust to in terms of passing, as the Irish had a hard time completing more than three passes in a row in addition to figuring out their proper spacing.

“The spacing [was] a little off and it took [the team] five or six minutes to settle in,” Norman said.

This sluggish start for Notre Dame (4-1) gave Cincinnati (3-2) the game’s first opportunities.

Notre Dame junior goalkeeper Brooke Littman had to dive out to claim a pass intended for Jill Vetere, which would have left her with a great scoring chance. A couple minutes later, Notre Dame had to hold its breath as the team could only watch as Vetere’s cross from the right hit the cross bar.

The rest of the chances in the first half went to the Irish. The first of which, in the 15th minute, was the best as Michelle Travassos, Cincinnati’s right wing back, attempted to play a back pass to goalkeeper Madison Less, but it was well short of the intended target. Notre Dame freshman forward Olivia Wingate intercepted the pass and was left with just Less to beat, but the Cincinnati goalkeeper got out quick enough to take away Wingate’s shooting angle and got just enough of her shot to deflect the ball wide.

In the 33rd minute, a corner kick from Irish senior midfielder Sabrina Flores was floated to the penalty spot for freshman defender Jade Gosar to head home.

Less had initially frozen as the goal-bound header looked like it may get deflected on its way in.

However, it did not, and she was forced to make an excellent reaction save down to her left using her leg.

Freshman midfielder Brianna Martinez and the Irish had another opportunity two minutes later when she intercepted a Bearcats pass in her own half and was surging forward before she was tripped from behind 25 yards from goal

by Vetere. This led to an excellent scoring opportunity from the ensuing free kick, but the shot from Flores was well high.

The Irish, after outshooting the Bearcats 12-5 in the first half, were met by a resolute Cincinnati defense early in the second half.

After withstanding the pressure in the first 10 minutes of the second half, the Bearcats capitalized on a misplaced Irish pass.

Cincinnati’s Cassie Wheldon intercepted and drove forward before ripping a fierce low shot from 25 yards out that skipped in front of Littman and then bounced off of her chest. Before Littman could get off the ground to collect the rebound in front of her, the Bearcats’ Sydney Kilgore had already pounced to score and give Cincinnati the 1-0 lead.

After falling behind, the Irish could have let their heads drop, but instead they stuck together as a team and picked themselves up.

Norman had been telling the team in practice that he wants them to be accountable to one another when the going gets tough. “[I] let the players run the show to empower and inspire each other because they know what to do. They do not need to hear it from me,” Norman said.

The Irish backed up their coach’s unspoken faith in them by responding as perfectly as he could have imagined: quickly, and with a newfound vigor. Wingate collected the ball near the left corner after a blocked cross, and began dribbling to the center of the field. With Notre Dame’s first shot of the second half in the 65th minute, Wingate placed a curling shot into the far corner of the net from the edge of the penalty area to draw the Irish even.

In the 72nd minute, just seven minutes after equalizing, the ball was sprayed wide to the right to an

unmarked Martinez. From the ensuing cross, Wingate, as she was getting pulled down, had her shot saved well by a diving Less. With Less down on the ground from her previous save, which left the Bearcats’ goal wide open, graduate student forward Karin Muya was able to score her first goal of the season to give the Irish a 2-1 lead.

Notre Dame kept the pressure on Cincinnati even after taking the lead and comfortably saw out the rest of the match to win 2-1, leaving Norman feeling “so proud” of his team.

Notre Dame looks to keep this feeling going in its next game against Ohio State (2-2) on Sunday at 1 p.m. in Alumni Stadium.

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Irish senior midfielder Shannon Hendricks surveys the field in Notre Dame’s 2-1 victory over Cincinnati at Alumni Stadium on Aug. 30.

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Irish freshman defender Chloe Boice passes the ball in Notre Dame’s 2-1 win over Cincinnati on Aug. 30 at Alumni Stadium. The Irish are now 4-1 on the season and play Butler next on Sunday in Indianapolis.

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DB Crawford suffers torn ACL during practice Observer Sports Staff

Notre Dame defensive back Shaun Crawford tore his ACL in practice Tuesday according to a report from Irish Sports Daily.

The senior from Lakewood, Ohio, has struggled with injuries throughout his college career. Crawford, who stands 5-foot-9 and 181-pounds, tore his right ACL as a freshman

while an early Achilles injury suffered against Nevada, Notre Dame’s home opener that season, cut short his sophomore season. He has been battling back to consistently get on the field ever since.

While Crawford’s previous ACL tear was in his right knee, sources report that this tear is in the left one.

Crawford was set to

compete for the starting role at the nickel position with senior Nick Coleman. Last year, during his first healthy season on the Irish roster, Crawford saw significant playing time.

He recorded 32 tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks, two interceptions, two forced recoveries and forced a fumble.

In 2016, Crawford also added six tackles before going down to injury.

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Irish sophomore midfielder Aiden McFadden looks downfield during Notre Dame’s 1-1 draw with Mexico at Alumni Stadium on Apr. 27.

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Irish senior forward Thomas Ueland fends off a defender during Notre Dame’s 1-1 draw against Mexico at Alumni Stadium on Apr. 27.

don’t think they’re just going to give them to us and that’s what’s going to be the key. [UConn] is a very hungry team and they’re going to come out with a lot of energ y. Overall, I think they’re a good, balanced team — they’re going to be a test for us.”

Riley will also face off against his old team, Dartmouth, who open its season Friday against No. 6 Indiana. Coming off a season in which Dartmouth won the Iv y League championship and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament, the Big Green will pose a challenge for the Irish.

“I think Dartmouth has a very veteran group going forward, they know how to win games and they know how to create chances, so they’re going to be a good test for us,” Riley said.

The Irish will employ a more attack-focused style of play compared to last season, and even though adjustments will be made for every game, Riley hopes that his team will find the balance between creating quality attacks without compromising Paid Advertisement

defense.

“We’re always going to make tactical adjustments, but I think at the end of the day we want to be attackminded,” he said. “With that, you have to have that balance of: The first thing you always have to become of your team is ‘very difficult to beat’ because if you’re giving away goals then it allows the other team to fit in and consolidate.

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So, we have to make sure that we don’t give away goals and that the purpose of all of our attacking plays is to create quality chances.”

The Irish will take the field against UConn at 5 p.m. on Friday in Bloomington, Indiana.

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Irish junior midfielder Jack Casey dribbles the ball in Notre Dame’s 1-1 draw against Mexico at Alumni Stadium on Apr. 27.

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Notre Dame preps to host Oakland on Friday

By MEAGAN BENS Sports Writer

Starting the season w ith a 3-0 record after their Golden Dome Inv itationa l, the Irish w ill host Oa k land on Friday at 6 p.m. at Purcell Pav ilion.

In addition to contributing to the w inning strea k, the squad’s freshmen have made their debut and a lasting impression on head coach Mike Johnson. Against Northern Kentuck y, setter Zoe Nunez recorded 32 assists and 15 digs for her first double-double career, and she a lso earned ACC Volleyba ll Co-Freshman of the Week. In tota l, Nunez recorded 84 assists, 22 digs and 8 blocks at the Golden Dome Inv itationa l.

“They are some young k ids and they bring some enthusiasm and energ y,” Johnson said. “A nd they don’t play like freshmen. They are learning just like a ll freshmen are learning, but they went hard and they can get better and they w ill get better. If they keep work ing right, they can be specia l.”

A long w ith the freshmen finding their roles on the

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“Right knee, left knee, achilles — you’re heart is broken for a kid that’s

team, senior Ryann DeJarld and junior Jemma Yeadon were placed on the Preseason A ll-ACC Team. The pair helped to bring stabilit y to the team, Johnson said.

“Both have just been play ing a lot they are able to help the team and guide us,” Johnson said. “Ryann brings an intensit y ever y day that I appreciate. She is as competitive as they come. She pushes people.

Jemma has a spirit that she is only starting to tap into, and I think there is way more in there and you are going to see a player who could ma ke it big time.”

With Oa k land in v iew and the team continua lly building upon the young ta lent it has, Johnson said he is not focused on who the team is play ing, but rather how it plays.

“I’m familiar w ith them, but I don’t think we have played them at my time at Notre Dame, but they are coached by a friend of mine,” Johnson said. “I think they have some good pieces and players and they are usua lly well coached and look ing for ward to a good match.”

Even though Johnson said

worked so hard to get on the field and been set back by injur y,” Kelly said. “It’s difficult for him but he’s handling it the best he can, given the circumstance.”

Kelly said Craw ford w ill

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Irish sophomore libero Madison Cruzado bumps the ball as Irish senior libero Ryann DeJarld looks on against NC State. The Irish defeated the Wolfpack 3-2 in 5 sets at Purcell Pavillion on Nov. 19. ever y year the Irish field a dif- Notre Dame, where you can hockey is in title game. W hen ferent team, and that he does truly be the best of the best I see that, I say this is ND. So not like to compare a current academica lly and athletica l- why not us. Ask me where we team to the last one, he said ly,” Johnson said. “That’s what are going to fa ll this year, I there is the expectation to im- we are striv ing towards. This don’t k now. A ll I k now is if we prove upon the last season. is one of the greatest universi- keep getting better ever y day, Last year was the first time ties in the world, and we have we can be rea lly good. The exsince 2012 the Irish have re- to have a volleyba ll program pectation is ver y high and it turned to the NCAA champi- that represents that. There should be.” onship, finishing w ith a 22-10 was a three-week stretch, fencing w ins a nationa l title, Contact Meagan Bens at record. basketba ll w ins, mbens@nd.edu “This is the Universit y of women’s

likely have surger y in the upcoming weeks after increasing his movement and strength to improve the recover y process. However, he w ill definitely be out for the season. In the meantime, Kelly is already focusing on new schemes to replace the void left by Craw ford’s absence. “[Senior safet y] Nick Coleman w ill move into that position that he was playing, our light package,” Kelly said. “[Freshman defensive back] Houston Griffin w ill play there as well. We’ll use t wo players to take up the slack in that particular position.”

Kelly also said that despite making more plays as a cornerback, Coleman w ill remain in the safet y rotation.

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of junior cornerback Donte Vaughn and expects him to make significant contributions this season. “[He’s] a long corner who has a real good abilit y to get his hands on footballs,” Kelly said. “If we go back to his freshman year against Miami he had t wo or three pass break ups in that game and not really know ing what he was doing.”

Kelly also said the offense, led by senior quarterback Brandon Wimbush, has been pay ing close attention to detail as they prepare to face Michigan.

“We’ve been working on the higher completion throws that [Wimbush] needs to be more effective w ith and he’s done a nice job,” Kelly said. “He needs Phil Mickelson short game.”

“He’s got to complete some of the easier, high completion kind of throws that are important to move the chains. He’s worked diligently on them … he’s

gonna continuously get better throughout the year.”

In addition to Wimbush’s improvements, Kelly said he’s pleased w ith the progress made by new offensive line coach Jeff Quinn in forming a strong rebuild after losing t wo first round NFL draft picks from last season, Mike McGlinchey and Quenton Nelson.

“That whole unit has responded well to Jeff,” Kelly said. “The tone has been great in terms of the camaraderie among the group.

And Jeff is fortunate that he’s got a veteran group w ith guys who have played a lot of football too, so there’s good carr y over there w ith some good leadership and experience …”

The Irish w ill receive their first test this Saturday against a skilled Michigan team. Kickoff is slated for 7:30 pm.

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as she was named one of the team captains.

“Sabrina was voted one of our captains because she is a great leader not only on the field but off the field as well.

She brings intensity every single day and she comes ready to compete,” Norman said.

“She is one of our most technical players and really a great two-way player. … She does a lot of things really, really well for us.”

Flores is one of five seniors on the Notre Dame roster, and Norman recognizes how

important the leadership they provide is for the team’s success.

“Having that senior leadership is really important,” Norman said. “At times they help get us on the same page … they help to make sure we stay strong.”

Aside from her success on the field, Sabrina also holds a unique distinction in Notre Dame women’s soccer history as she along with her sister Monica join Kaitlin and Taylor Klawunder to become the first pair of twins to appear on the Notre Dame women’s soccer roster in the same season. Before the 2014 season in which the Flores and

Klawunder sisters joined the program, the Irish had only once ever had a pair of sisters back in 2001.

With Flores now in her final year, she’ll certainly be looking to have a big impact as she leaves her final mark on the program. Notre Dame is currently ranked at No. 17 nationally, but after a strong start thus far it will be looking to shoot even further up the polls in the coming weeks. Flores will undoubtably be instrumental to the team’s success this season as she captains the 2018 Irish. anna mason | The Observer

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Irish senior defender Sabrina Flores attacks with the ball during Notre Dame’s 2-1 win over Cincinnati at Alumni Stadium on Aug. 30. Flores is one of five seniors on the Irish roster and is a captain this season.

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demonst rate, as we believe st rong ly, t he prev ious yea r was a n aber rat ion.”

“Now, pa r t of prov ing t hat is ta k ing a ha rd look at it a nd deciding what you had to cha nge a nd what was w rong.

[Head coach Br ia n] Kel ly did a n unbelievable job of exa m ining ever y aspect of t he prog ra m, a nd ma k ing some toug h decisions about t he cha nges t hat needed to be made, a nd execut ing on a l l t hose cha nges. It sta r ted w it h a ver y focused engagement w it h t he students who played for him, to say ‘what ca n you sha re w it h me ?

How ca n we ma ke sure t his doesn’t happen aga in? ’ He hea rd t hose messages, a nd he made a host of cha nges a nd I feel g reat about where t he prog ra m is r ig ht now.

Cu ltura l ly it is as st rong as it has been in my 11 yea rs here, a nd I have ever y conf idence t hat w i l l ma nifest itself on t he f ield.”

Shif t ing f rom t he past to t he present, Swa rbr ick expla ined his ex pectat ions for Kel ly’s tea m t his season.

“My ex pectat ion is t hat we compete w it h a nybody in t he count r y,” Swa rbr ick sa id. “You never k now t he outcome of a ny ga me, injur ies play a role, a host of

t hings — but I wa nt to see a tea m t hat ca n compete w it h a nybody a nd I have ever y conf idence t hat we w i l l. I’ve been a round t his tea m a lot over t he past few mont hs, a nd a lot of pract ices in t he past mont h, a nd I love t he leadership, love t he cu lture, I love t he toug hness — pract ices a re ver y focused a nd business-li ke. Ver y pleased w it h what I see a nd I expect to see t hat ref lected in t he compet it iveness on t he f ield.”

Spea k ing of a iming to compete w it h a nybody, Not re Da me is ta l k ing t he cha l lenge ser iously. The Ir ish have schedu led ma rquee matchups ever y yea r for t he nex t 10 yea rs, hig hlig hted by a n a nnouncement t his Apr i l of a home-a ndhome ser ies w it h A laba ma in 2028-29. Swa rbr ick feels t hat it’s in herent in Not re Da me to play t he best compet it ion it ca n.

“Wel l, Not re Da me footba l l has to [play t he best tea ms],” Swa rbr ick sa id.

“First of a l l, don’t be independent if you’re not prepa red to do t hat. But second ly, it’s t he legac y of t he prog ra m. Pa r t of Jesse’s message was : Play t he best tea ms a nd play a l l over t he count r y. K nute Rock ne picked up t hat ma ntel a nd did t hat, a nd it’s cont inued ever since. It’s pa r t of our

Former Irish running back Josh Adams, last season’s leading rusher, powers through a tackle in Notre Dame’s 21-17 victory over LSU in the Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1.

DNA a nd who we a re, so we shou ld be doing it. W hat’s cha nged is t hat we probably do it a litt le more w it h t he Col lege Footba l l Playof f select ion process in mind t hen before. A nnua l ly we w i l l have t wo Pac-12 ga mes on t he schedu le because of USC a nd Sta nford, a nd we’l l have f ive ACC ga mes.

So t hen w it h t he rema ining limited slots you have, we’re t r y ing to ma ke sure over t he course of yea rs we ca n show how we’ve competed aga inst t he BIG 10, t he SEC or t he BIG 12. [A head], we’ve got t he second ha lf of t he Georg ia home-a nd-home, we’ve got [Texas A&M], A laba ma, Wisconsin, Ohio State — so we’l l cont inue to [play t he best tea ms].”

The reason why Not re Da me has t he f lex ibi lit y to schedu le such ma rquee matchups ever y yea r is because of its independent status. Swa rbr ick doesn’t see t he Ir ish joining a conference a ny t ime soon, even if it wou ld ma ke a pat h to t he Col lege Footba l l Playof f easier.

“We don’t choose independence because it helps t he footba l l prog ra m,” Swa rbr ick sa id. “We wou ld have a potent ia l ly easier pat h to a cha mpionship in t he cur rent model if we were in a conference.

We choose independence

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because of its benef it for t he Universit y a nd what footba l l represents. It’s our abi lit y to play in New York a nd Ca lifor nia … t he ACC lets us t ravel f rom Mia mi to Boston, we’l l play in iconic venues li ke La mbeau Field — t hat’s what we need to do. Don’t get me w rong, our focus has to be w inning footba l l ga mes a nd compet ing for nat iona l cha mpionships, but we have t his seconda r y obligat ion w it h t he prog ra m to use it as a vehicle to promote t he school, a nd we look for ever y oppor tunit y to do t hat.

The [Ca mpus] Crossroads Project is a physica l ma nifestat ion of t hat. How do you ta ke t he most iconic col lege footba l l stadium in t he count r y a nd tur n it into a n asset for our Universit y?

We did t hat, a nd t hat’s got to be t he menta lit y.”

Besides its yea r-round ut i lit y, Swa rbr ick believes t he $400 mi l lion project has been successf u l in en ha ncing t he ga me day ex per ience for bot h players a nd fa ns.

“I cou ldn’t be more pleased,” Swa rbr ick sa id.

“A l l t he choices we made, a l l t he t hings we did — I love t he renovat ion to t he locker room, I love t hat on ly we go t hroug h our tunnel, I t hin k t he scoreboa rd has en ha nced t he ex per ience enor mously for our fa ns

a nd our players. Ever y t hing about it has improved t he ex per ience.”

Concluding his t houg hts by look ing out wa rd, Swa rbr ick env isioned how t he nex t f ive to 10 yea rs mig ht unfold in t he world of col lege at h let ics, a nd how Not re Da me w i l l f it into t hat picture.

“The nex t f ive to 10 yea rs a re going to be def ined la rgely by ex ter na l forces,” Swa rbr ick sa id. “The nat iona l debate about col lege at h let ics, t he relat ionship bet ween t he student a nd t he Universit y a nd what t hat shou ld look li ke … player compensat ion, impor ta nt t rends in attenda nce, t he rema rkable revolut ion going on in t he communicat ion indust r y a nd what t hat mea ns for t he broadcast of at h let ic events, hea lt h a nd sa fet y issues at t he ver y top of t hat list, so a l l t hose exter na l factors a re going to play a big role.

“It is cr it ica l for us to pa rt icipate in t hat, to t r y to be a leader a nd help def ine what t hat f uture is, a nd whatever it is, to nav igate it in a way t hat a l lows us to st i l l be Not re Da me … [ref lect ing] t he va lues of t his place a nd t he ex pectat ions of our fa ns a nd our students.”

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Swarbrick lays out expectations for football

By JOE EVERETT

By CHARLIE ORTEGA GUIFARRO

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In t he t hird a nd f ina l stor y deta i ling The Obser ver’s inter v iew w it h Jack Swa rbrick, t he Not re Da me director of at h let ics discussed t he footba l l tea m — its t rajector y, its impor ta nce for t he Universit y a nd t he f uture of its independent status a nd consequent ly its schedu ling. Swa rbrick f irst noted just how crit ica l last season’s improvement f rom 2016 was — not on ly for t he footba l l prog ra m but a lso for Not re Da me as a whole — a nd how t hat improvement ca me about.

“I t hin k it was importa nt for t he tea m, I t hin k it was impor ta nt for t he Universit y,” Swa rbrick sa id.

“The sig nif ica nce of t he prog ra m [cont ributes to] so much of what we do at t he Universit y. In t hat sense, it’s ha rd to overstate its impor ta nce. We needed to

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Irish junior quarterback Ian Book drops back to pass in Notre Dame’s 21-17 win over LSU at the 2018 Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Fla.

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As Notre Dame begins another season, there w ill certainly be a mix of new team members, as well as familiar faces working to develop chemistr y and get their year under way on a positive note. One of the keys to success for any team is veteran leadership, something the Irish w ill be looking for out of their juniors and seniors.

Senior defender and midfielder combo Sabrina Flores w ill certainly play one of those roles in prov iding the team w ith a veteran presence this season.

Hailing from Liv ingston, New Jersey, Flores was handed a critical role in her first year as a member of the Irish back in 2014. That season, she was the only freshman to start all 22 games, playing a key role in the Notre Dame defense throughout the process. On the year, Flores totaled three assists

Following a draw in its season opener versus Saint Louis, No. 24 Notre Dame is set for a tough two-match road trip against No. 18 UConn and No. 22 Dartmouth. The Irish, who already have the toughest schedule in the country, will be in for quite the challenge given that they will face two of the best teams in a span of three days. Head coach Chad Riley noted the physical difficulty of playing these double weekends, but expressed confidence in his team’s fitness adding that smart play will be the difference between losing and winning. “[Having two games in a weekend] is very taxing. …

Props to the team — they’re in good shape, they came in fit, they’ve worked through the preseason — I think we’re in a good spot to be able to deal with this but [double weekends] are hard to get

through. As much as it’s going to be physical, the team that plays smarter, maximizes their chances, and is really solid defensively over these weekends are the ones that get results on both nights,” Riley said.

Despite facing two teams this weekend, the Irish are currently focused on UConn, taking it one game at a time, including watching a lot of film to know what’s the best way to play opponents. The Huskies (2-0) have started the season with two-straight wins, having allowed six shots in total. Riley said UConn has a strong, balanced and experienced team and will be a challenge for the Irish.

“Watching UConn, they’ve got ver y good players on the attack,” Riley said. “I think UConn’s ver y solid defensively — they’ve got good veterans. We’re going to have to be good w ith our attacking play to create chances, I see M SOCCER PAGE 19

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Irish prepare for weekend games

while play ing nearly 2,000 minutes and received ACC A ll-Freshman Team honors for her efforts.

After the success of freshman year, Flores changed positions in her sophomore campaign, mov ing from defense to midfield where she found more success offensively. She scored her first collegiate goal against Portland back in August of 2015, one of three she had on the season. Flores has continued on in her career at Notre Dame to start ever y game, although she did miss the entiret y of the 2016 season as she trained w ith the U.S. U-20 Women’s National Team for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup. W hile he is only in his first year as head coach at Notre Dame, Irish head coach Nate Norman has already noted the impact Flores has on the team, something that became clear from the beginning see W SOCCER PAGE 22

Brian Kelly speaks on injuries and new staff

By CHARLOTTE EDMONDS Associate Sports Editor

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Irish sophomore running back Tony Jones Jr. cuts downfield in Notre Dame’s 21-17 win over LSU in the Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1.

Brian Kelly addressed the loss of senior cornerback Shaun Craw ford and the team’s strateg y going forward in Thursday’s press conference.

“Ver y disappointing,” Kelly said of the loss of Craw ford to a season-ending ACL tear during a morning practice on Tuesday. “We were in a one-on-one drill and he got caught up w ith a receiver.

I’m sick about it.”

Craw ford has been plagued by injur y throughout his career w ith the Irish, tearing his ACL in August of his freshman year only to tear his achilles a year later in the second game of the season against Nevada. He had an impressive off season and all signs pointed to a healthy senior year where he could be a significant contributor in t he n ickel for mat ion. see FOOTBALL PAGE 21