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Students sign pledge to foster inclusivity Community members advocate for social change at Notre Dame as part of StaND Against Hate Week

By MORGAN JOHNSON News Writer

On Wednesday, communit y members signed a pledge indicating their intention to create a more inclusive Notre Dame as part of the Gender Relation Center’s (GRC) annual Social Pledge Signing on Fieldhouse Mall.

The signing was part of StaND Against Hate Week.

The event was designed to encourage the spirit of inclusion across different ethnic, racial, sexual and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Students, staff, facult y and alumni were able to sign the poster, which w ill be hung in the LaFortune Student Center as a v isual representation of Notre Dame’s commitment to this issue.

Sara Agostinelli, assistant director of LGBTQ student initiatives for the GRC, said she believes the Social Pledge Signing was an outlet for students to establish goals of inclusion for the Notre Dame communit y.

“Our hope is that this week is not just a week of education and awareness but it is about mov ing into action and helping students think beyond one week and more about their entire Notre Dame experience,” she said.

StaND Against Hate week has been taking place for several years. This year, the GRC co-sponsored the week w ith other campus organizations such as Student Government, the Center for see STAND PAGE 4

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Students participate in the annual Social Pledge Signing at Fieldhouse Mall on Wednesday as part of StaND Against Hate Week. The pledge indicated students’ commitment to an inclusive spirit.

Professor discusses impact of pornography

By COLLEEN ZEWE News Writer

During Wednesday night’s installment of Saint Mary’s Theology on Fire lecture series, Katherine Elliot explored pornography’s impact on relationships.

Elliot, who holds a Ph.D. in theology from Notre Dame, said pornography separates

us from God’s gift of genuine sexual relationships.

“Sex is a gift from God, but only when it happens in a context of mutual respect and understanding,” she said.

“Pornography has taken that context away.”

Elliot said all humans are made in the image of God. Because God is a mystery, she said, humans also have

a mysterious part of themselves, the creative core. She said when people are in touch with their creative core, all aspects of their lives, including intimacy, thrive. “‘Erotic’ means so much more than sex,” she said. “It’s where our center is, and where our creativity is.”

Acting company set to perform ‘Macbeth’

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Production to address diversity at Saint Mary’s

By MAEVE FILBIN News Writer

The Saint Mar y’s department of communication studies, dance and theatre — along w ith members of the Tectonic Theater Project of New York — w ill present “Once a Belle…?: Striv ing for Inclusiv it y,” a production

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exploring diversit y and inclusiv it y in Saint Mar y’s communit y, Thursday through Saturday. Barbara Pitts McAdams, a Tectonic Theater company member and the 2017 Margaret Hill Guest Artist at Saint Mar y’s, directs the play, which dissects the College’s wellknow a x iom, “once a Belle,

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always a Belle.”

The performance was composed using the Tectonic Theater’s “Moment Work” method, a creative process that blends real-life testimony — using inter v iews w ith current Saint Mar y’s students and see PLAY PAGE 4

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Members of the Not-So-Royal Shakespeare Company rehearse in preparation for the premiere of their production of “Macbeth.”

By CAMILA SALCEDO News Writer

The Not-So-Royal Shakespeare Company (NSR) w ill premiere its production of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” on Thursday in the Washington Hall Lab

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Theatre.

The NSR has waited a long time for the opportunit y to put on “Macbeth.” Sophomore Ellis Sargeant, who w ill perform the role of Malcolm, said see MACBETH PAGE 4

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Keynote speaker Jessica Payne, associate professor of psychology, speaks about the value of gaining an extra 20 minutes of sleep each night, part of the Rethink Sleep lecture from the McWell Sleep Program in DeBartolo Hall on Wednesday.

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Volleyball vs. Virginia Purcell Pavilion 1 p.m.

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Senators discuss University Title IX policy

By THOMAS MURPHY News Writer

The Notre Dame student senate discussed a resolution proposed by McGlinn Hall senator Morgan Williams and Duncan Hall senator Steven Higgins on Wednesday night.

The resolution supports the “Stand 4 IX Campaign,” a campaign led by sophomores Isabel Rooper and Elizabeth Boyle, asking the administration reaffirm Notre Dame’s commitment to Title IX. According to the Stand for IX website, the campaign

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asks the administration to address four items: “one, commit to use the preponderance of the evidence standard in cases of sexual misconduct, regardless of changing federal guidelines; two, uphold a 60-day timeline of addressing Title IX cases; three, clarify new alternative resolutions policy and disallow mediation in cases of sexual misconduct, in accordance with previous federal guidelines; and four, create and publicize waivers from the six-semester housing requirement for survivors of sexual misconduct, violence or any other form of discrimination.”

Tuesday night, Fr. Jenkins was asked about several of these concerns during an address to the Faculty Senate.

Jenkins was asked if the University would continue to uphold the preponderance of evidence standard, as well as if survivors of sexual assault

would be granted waivers for the policy requiring undergraduates to live on-campus for six semesters.

“I think the answer to the first one … is yes,” Jenkins said in response. “And the second is I think we’re developing those waivers and certainly that’s critical.”

Rooper, student government’s director of gender relations, answered a question about the value of alternative resolutions.

“We think other alternative resolutions are great because it gives the survivor to choose what kind of process is going to best fit them,” Rooper said.

“And so that’s part of what we’re asking the university for — to tell us what those alternative resolutions are and could be.”

Higgins said the preponderance standard is fair to both parties in sexual assault cases.

“Rather than presuming

one party is guilty, the standard puts parties on equal footing,“ he said.

Rooper was also given the opportunity to respond to whether the preponderance standard is fair to both sides and would be an adequate deterrent to possible false accusations of sexual misconduct.

“Just saying someone assaulted you is not 50 percent of evidence, it’s no evidence,” Rooper said. “There has to actually be evidence available. Additionally, schools don’t have the power to subpoena or force someone to testify about something that happened … so it’s a lot harder for universities to take the same steps that police can take.”

After discussion, the resolution was passed unanimously with no senators abstaining.

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judge themselves on.

“We’ve replaced creativ it y w ith porn,” Elliott said.

For Elliot, while the creative core features love, respect and wonder, pornographic images show a one dimensional, f lat representation of what sex is. Elliot said women are bombarded by these f lat images, and subsequently do not realize what it means to be creative sexual beings. Furthermore, Elliot said pornographic images shape the expectations we have in relationships.

Because huma ns a re made in t he li keness of God, t he best huma n relat ionships ref lect t he int imacy we have w it h God. These relat ionships encourage creat iv it y a nd int imacy on a l l levels, including intel lectua l a nd emot iona l, El liot sa id. But pornog raphy does

not ref lect t he sa me t y pe of int imacy we have w it h God, she sa id, a nd t hus, it draws us fa r t her f rom int imacy w it h God. “Pornography is an escape from a genuine relationship,” Elliot said.

Pornography also encourages v iolence against women, Elliot said. View ing women as objects dehumanizes them, she said, which can lead to v iolence and believ ing they can be treated however one wants.

Elliot said discussion and w illingness to talk about difficult subjects such as pornography and explaining the Church’s opposition is the best way to create understanding and change on the subject.

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Social Concerns, PrismND and Notre Dame Right to Life.

Agostinelli said students who attended yesterday’s signing were enthusiastic about becoming engaged and committed to their campus community.

“Students were really committed to it and wanted to be involved,” Agostinelli said.

“They wanted to show their solidarity. It’s the education and awareness and the opportunity to learn from their peers that’s important for the event.”

A primary goal for StaND Against Hate week is to make Notre Dame a safe and welcoming home for all students.

“W hether they live on or off campus, this is their community and we want all students to feel valued, welcomed and celebrated,” Agostinelli said.

Student organizer Kaleem Minor, a sophomore, noted the importance of educating students on issues of hate.

T-shirts provided at the signing included facts about hate in America.

“We want to illuminate the issues that plague America, which consequently plague our campus,” Minor said.

“We want students to think about these issues and be aware of them. By handing these shirts out, we hope to get students engaged in conversation about something they might not be educated on.”

Agostinelli hopes that the Social Pledge Signing and the week as a whole will have a lasting effect on students and their attitudes towards hate.

“I hope that this is a good reminder to students,” she said. “I know the University is really committed to the spirit of inclusion. The pledge is something that is visible, and putting it in front of students is always helpful. I also hope that this shows students how many of their peers also value this spirit.”

The signing also provided the opportunity to promote the week’s other events, which are discussion-based and aim to engage students in meaningful conversation.

Freshman Elena Esteve, who signed the pledge, noted the importance of hate issues, both on and off campus, and commended student groups and the GRC for their dedication to inclusion.

“There are many important facts that people do not know about hate issues, and it’s excellent that these organizations are drawing attention to it through the pledge,” she said.

director Michael Vaclav, a graduate student, has been preparing for the show for while.

“It’s a show he’s been involved w ith for a while,” Sargeant said. “I have been hearing about this for a year now,” Vaclav is a second-year graduate student who has been involved w ith NSR since 2013, his undergraduate sophomore year, for eight of its productions. His deep love for Shakespeare’s work led him to w rite his senior thesis on the authorship of ‘Macbeth’ and the identit y of the various w itches.

Senior Abigail Schnell, who plays the title character,

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graduates — w ith theatrical narrative. Starting in mid-September, the group conducted over 50 interv iews, whose transcripts ranged from t wo to 10 pages long. The company weaved inter v iew material into dialogue and monologue and has breathed life into fictional composite characters, Pitts McAdams said.

“Our mission is really to find new theatrical ways of exploring things on stage,” she said. “Our question is always: W hat are the theatrical forms that make theater feel really electric and exciting? We start w ith the elements of the stage and the subject matter, and we figure out the plot afterwards. It’s form and content in conversation w ith each

said the show is notable for its simplicit y.

“It’s bloody, scar y, short and easy to follow,” she said.

“Don’t be afraid because it‘s Shakespeare. ‘Macbeth’ is ver y colloquial. There’s a prett y big fear factor in the show.”

This eeriness is not only created by the cast, but also by the tech team, which w ill use low lighting and costumes made of band shirts and militar y uniforms.

Vaclav lauded the cast and crew for its talent.

“They are one of the best groups I have worked w ith,” he said. “They do really bring the show to life in a fantastic way.”

Several members of the cast said the most important aspect of the tech of this production is the soundtrack.

“The concept of the show itself started w ith the Guns N’ Roses album ‘Appetite for Destruction,’” Vaclav added.

Sargeant said the soundtrack, which includes works of Led Zeppelin, Queen and Black Sabbath, is more like that of a film than a theater production.

“It’s most prevalent bet ween transitions, but it’s still there in the background of the dialogue,” Sargeant said.

Sophomore Louise Gregor y, who stars as Lady Macbeth, said that the “punk rock Macbeth theme” fits the play’s theme perfectly.

“The play is so v iolent, it lends itself to ver y aggressive music for the soundtrack,” she said.

The haunted feeling of

the play was made around Vaclav’s conception of the plot as an “early modern horror mov ie.” None of the characters knows who they can trust. Vaclav’s special interest in the w itches and their identities is ref lected in the show, where Schnell said they are portrayed in a “genuinely frightening, other-worldy” way.

Gregor y said the show w ill make Shakespeare accessible for the audience.

“If you’ve ever wa nted to get into Sha kespea re but get put of f by it because you t hin k of people in puf f y robes … it’s Sha kespea re but doesn’t feel li ke Sha kespea re,“ Gregor y sa id. “Ever yone is hav ing a blast.”

other.”

The play itself was built “inclusively,” as the creative process was open to all Saint Mar y’s students, regardless of age and experience, Pitts McAdams said. The cast of 20 is mostly composed of freshmen, Pitts McAdams said, and for many cast members, this production w ill be their first show.

“We made a decision early on that we would find a way to include anyone who wanted to be included,” she said.

Past Tectonic Theater projects created on college campuses have analyzed racial tensions, the effect of social media, intimate partner v iolence and other timely, charged facets of today’s human identit y.

Senior and cast member Makena Henell, said “Once A Belle…? ” w ill tack le topics such as race, homophobia,

socioeconomic status, religion, mental health and the importance of being a good ally.

“The big question that we’re asking is: Is ever yone Saint Mar y’s, or are some people more Saint Mar y’s than others? Is this really an inclusive env ironment, and if so, when — and hopefully we show some of those moments — and if not, what are some of the stories that could maybe shed some light for people who don’t experience the exclusion? ” Pitts McAdams said.

The set of the play includes the t w in sentinels of trees and lampposts that call to mind “The Avenue,” complete w ith the bright hues of an Indiana fall. The rolling set walls are stained to look like aged wood paneling on one side and standard yellow brick reminiscent of LeMans and Holy

Cross Halls. Though ever ything about this production w ill be intrinsic to the Saint Mar y’s communit y, it w ill also offer audiences the opportunit y to take a step back from the traditional Saint Mar y’s identit y and question what it really means to be a Belle, Pitts McAdams said.

“The Avenue w ill always lead you home,” she said. “‘Once a Belle, always a Belle.’ But that’s not true for ever yone who’s been here.”

Pitts McAdams said she hopes this performance w ill expose students to the SMC Theatre Department, prov ide resources for those who are excluded from the communit y and make audiences more aware of the need for inclusiv it y on the Saint Mar y’s campus.

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Papa John — pizza man or overlord?

Davis Gonsalves Deep Thoughts from a Deep Dude

Charlie Kenney Scene Writer

Papa John’s Pizza was started in 1984 by John Schnatter in a converted broom closet in the back of his father’s tavern. To buy the pizza equipment he needed, Schnatter sold his 1971 Z28 Camaro for $1,600 dollars to purchase pizza equipment. By 2009, he was able to pay $250,000 dollars to get back that same Camaro. According to Forbes, he is currently worth $801 billion and the Papa John’s Pizza Company is worth more than $3 billion.

Pizza empires take generations, millennia to build — John Schnatter built one in 30 years.

Is Papa John a business genius? Yes. Is he the John Rockefeller or Andrew Carnegie of his generation? Yes. Does his pizza have “better ingredients, better pizza?” Maybe. Does he have far too much power?

Absolutely.

Papa John controls over 4,700 pizza establishments around the world. In 2012, Papa John’s sent over 500,000 unwanted text messages to its customers. Papa John’s is the official pizza of the National Football League (NFL).

Peyton Manning owns 21 Papa John’s franchises in the Denver area. Papa John controls what you eat, what you see on your phone, what you watch on your TV and your favorite retired quarterback. He is a man in the pizza trade, but a man that has power over far more than your pizza.

His competitors have tried to stop his rampant rise to power. In 1997, Pizza Hut sued Papa John’s in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, asserting that just because their pizza has “better ingredients” doesn’t mean it is “better pizza” — what some would say is a preposterous accusation. The court ruled, however, that the phrases “better ingredients” and “better pizza” are not subject to quantifiable measures and therefore are not false advertising under the Lanham Act. Papa John came out successful and was allowed to continue to amass his power.

Pizza Hut may have been on to something, however. Papa John’s power and abnormal rise to success may be due to his advertising campaigns.

Namely the two slogans “Better Ingredients, Better Pizza” and “My Town, My Papa John’s.”

In hearing those slogans we all think to ourselves, “Why would I eat normal ingredients and normal pizza, when I can eat Papa John’s?” And we think, “Did Papa John just hand me the keys to the kingdom, is it really my Papa John’s?” It’s advertising that makes us trust Papa. We want to eat the better pizza and we want it to be our Papa John’s. Other pizza restaurants don’t give us that security, that affirmation, that love. Papa John’s does.

Papa John doesn’t just want to control us mentally; he wants to control us physically as well. When asked if he would ever consider running for political office, Schnatter said, “You never say never.”

A private jet, a $7.8 million villa in Nashville, Tennessee, a $5.4 million penthouse in Naples, Florida, and a $23 million hotel and resort in Deer Valley, Utah, aren’t enough for Papa John. He wants more than just a weirdly successful pizza chain that unexplainably puts green peppers in its boxes. Papa John wants us. And Papa John gets what he wants.

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Here in my column, I’m a big categorization guy, whether that be U.S. presidents and their basketball abilities or the dorms themselves and their mascots.

Instead of writing an article for everything I want to discuss, I’m just going to rank everything I want to. Let’s do it!

Food Network shows 1. “Chopped” 2. “Diners, Drive Ins and Dives” 3. “Pioneer Woman” 4. “Iron Chef” 5. “Beat Bobby Flay” First of all, I hate Bobby Flay and his arrogant attitude, but you would be remiss to think I don’t respect him and his ability — so he makes the top five. Anyone who loves drama loves the ice cream maker on “Chopped,” and the ingredients such as “moose juice” make for good TV. The rest should makes sense, especially since Guy Fieri is included.

Fruit 1. Watermelon 2. Raspberry 3. Apple (preferably Honeycrisp) 4. Pineapple 5. Cantaloupe People are really overlooking cantaloupe. The dining hall cantaloupe is trash, I can admit. But if you are eating fire cantaloupe, there are hardly any melons that can match. Watermelon straight up tastes like red and summer, and I love it. I think raspberry, apple and pineapple are fairly accepted at their positions, except by my Honduran roommate who says plantains should be in the top five.

What do you even know, Alfredo?

Parts of the Holy Trinity 1. The Son 2. The Holy Spirit 3. The Father Yup, this is good ol’ fashioned heresy.

The Son really was totally metal when he came to Earth dying but then resurrected in a huge plot twist. People straight up sleep on the Holy Spirit though. Spirit got mad flow letting Apostles spit some fire in every language. The Father kind of was a

spiteful dude in the Old Testament, just a bit. I guess he had a change of heart in the New Testament, like he had a kid or something to make him chill out, but I just can’t put Him higher than the other two.

Lethality of colonial powers 1. Belgium 2. France 3. Spain 4. England 5. Portugal Per capita, Belgium was definitely the most messed up colonial power based on what they did in the Congo. Many people think England would take the top spot, but what France did in West Africa and how they managed Syria really screwed up the world in a big way to give them that No. 2 slot. Three through five are close, but I think they fit in nicely in their order with Spain’s conquests in Latin America putting it ahead of England and Portugal.

My personal flaws 1. Arrogance 2. I sprain my ankles a lot 3. I need to listen more and talk less 4. Admitting I’m wrong 5. I can’t grow the beard I’d like Arrogance for sure takes the first spot here given that I felt I had the authority to rank dorms to start out and have continued on to rank parts of the divine Trinity.

Who am I to do so? Obviously a really great person. The ankle spraining has derailed some soccer games, and the inability to admit I’m wrong has derailed some helpful arguments. I do talk a lot for that third spot, but it’s usually funny so I guess it’s a wash (there’s that arrogance again).

Lastly, all I want is a good beard, and that has been too much to ask, I guess.

Thank you for reading this far. It tells me my opinion might be worth something to some of you. In life, that’s all I can really ask for. If you have anything you would like me to rank, just shoot me an email.

Davis is junior in Dunne Hall, a lover of “La La Land,” hater of hummus, king of calves, thinker of theology, sorcerer of schemes and orator of The Observer. You can contact him at dgonsalv@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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One step forward: an Energy Week retrospective At the beginning of October, Notre Dame celebrated both Respect Life Week and Energy Week. Both featured daily events that explored how our lifestyles and choices affect others. Despite the timing and content similarities, events from the two series are traditionally not coordinated in their planning, and the cohort of attendees is, for the most part, separate.

Being a sustainability nut, I attended several Energy Week events. The documentaries I saw revealed glaring right-to-life issues. Documentaries exposed the struggles of families dealing with water contaminated by toxic mine runoff. I saw retired coal miners with black lung explain that their company had cut their pension plans and health benefits. I heard a fellow student share about the severity of the air pollution in his home city of Dallas.

These people’s suffering is not simply unfortunate but is unjust and avoidable. That family’s water was contaminated because a mountaintop removal mining company had bulldozed mining debris into a stream. Those miners’ company purposefully sank its pension funds into a subsidiary that was losing money. The air pollution in Dallas and Fort Worth results from the countless

upwind natural gas wells that leak methane and dispose of toxic waste by evaporating it into the air. In the cases of air and water pollution, the extraction companies choose to externalize the environmental costs of their practices, which poisons people living downstream or downwind. In the case of the retired miners, their company forsook its responsibility to care for men who had sacrificed their long-term health to make a living.

Whether due to malevolence or neglect, degrading a person’s health violates their right to life. In order to decide to allow the poisoning of downstream communities or the betrayal of retired miners, one must first decide that the lives of those affected are not worth protecting. The industry requires this type of thinking to continue its success. On Tuesday of our Respect Life Week, a record-setting 40 Catholic institutions responded to this injustice: In celebration of the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, dioceses and religious orders around the world announced commitments to divest their financial assets from fossil fuel holdings. The number signifies the growing moral statement of Catholics on the issue: We will not profit from such injustice.

Notre Dame was not included in that number. In his

last public statement on the matter, chief investment officer Scott Malpass informed us that 4 percent of the endowment’s value pool lay in fossil fuel investments, but that his office had “restricted” investments in a few particularly concerning coal companies. While these restrictions may respond to the suffering of the abandoned pensioners or families with water contaminated by mine runoff, they do nothing to address the same suffering in different contexts. Hydraulic fracturing pollutes families’ drinking water supplies with many of the same contaminants as coal mines and pollute the air that people breathe with still others. Why should our University’s investment practices exclude the lives of these others?

When the University of Notre Dame makes a moral statement, the world listens. It is therefore our duty to finish the business of divesting our endowment from fossil fuels, in order to say loudly and clearly: “The right to life is inalienable, and it does not discriminate.”

Gregory Campion sophomore Nov. 6

The cost of silence: an authentic and vulnerable Notre Dame community Diversity Council Deborah Bineza

Vulnerability.

I believe that if there is one thing a Notre Dame student is more afraid of than a C in a class, it is vulnerability. As students, we have a wide variety of conversations. Educational, insightful, thoughtprovoking conversations. However, seldom do we have the necessary and real conversations regarding our experiences on this campus. This week, Student Government is hosting the The Cost of Silence Week in order to raise awareness regarding those conversations. There are awkward glances and long periods of silence whenever one begins to discuss issues such as mental health, diversity and inclusion on campus. I believe that the cost of this has fallen upon us, the Notre Dame student body.

We are losing opportunities to build a truly authentic and diverse Notre Dame community because so many of us have sipped the Kool-Aid of perfectionism, of the golden Notre Dame experience.

I am not writing this to blast the University or enter into a long rant about institutional failures, but I am writing this from a place of true frustration. My own Notre Dame experience has been far from perfect. I have battled mental health issues and as a minority student, I have struggled to find my own place. At one point, I found it impossible to share these experiences. I felt a strong sense of shame and that I was some how less for not experiencing the same Note Dame that everyone else seemed to. The key word here is “seemed.” When I decided to enter into my own terrifying journey of vulnerability and to share my struggles, I quickly realized that many of my fellow Notre Dame students are on the very same path. It is only with this realization that I have been able to foster authentic relationships and cultivate my own passion for advocacy regarding diversity and inclusion.

More than fancy new buildings or millions of dollars in grants, Notre Dame needs a culture shift in vulnerability. As students, we must open up our hearts and ears to one another’s experiences and create authentic spaces in which we can

both celebrate accomplishments and empathize in our struggles. We must abandon our own fight songs of perfection and pressure. It is only then we will have a real, honest and diverse Notre Dame community.

I’m not asking that you sign a petition, demonstrate or demand some kind of administrative change. I am simply asking that you listen.

That you approach yourself and fellow students with compassion and that you no longer fear vulnerability.

Contact Deborah Bineza at dbineza@nd.edu The Diversity Council of Notre Dame advocates for awareness, understanding and acceptance on issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status and other intersectional identities in the Notre Dame community. The viewpoints expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Diversity Council, but are the individual opinions of the author.

You can contact Diversity Council at diversnd@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Educational pursuits and using your physical skills to help you advance will pay off. Set the stage for what you want to see transpire. Lay down your plans and take one step at a time to ensure you reach your goal. Opportunities will be plentiful and relationships will play a role in helping you achieve whatever you set out to do. Your numbers are 8, 14, 25, 31, 34, 43, 47.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Give everything you’ve got to gaining experience that will help you position yourself well for future prospects. Don’t get angry if someone is acting like a jerk. Take care of your responsibilities and move onward and upward without hesitation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You can make changes to your residence that will make your life easier. Sharing responsibility with someone else will improve your relationships and standard of living. Use your ingenuity to come up with unique solutions. Love is highlighted.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do your own thing and don’t worry about what others do. Keeping up with your responsibilities should be your prime concern. Truth may be in short supply regarding a job someone wants you to do. Ask questions before you commit.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t push others to get involved in your battles or challenges. Take control and you will get things done in a shorter period than you expected. Once you are finished, plan to celebrate your success with someone special.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):: Subdue your emotions when dealing with work-related matters. Showing any sign of inconsistency or letting personal matters cloud the way you do your job will come back to haunt you. Stay intent on doing your best and getting ahead.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Reconnect with someone you used to enjoy being around and doing things with. A reunion will give way to new opportunities with old friends.

Conversations will lead to travel plans or changes to the way you live. Romance is highlighted.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): UDon’t let anyone push you into something you are not ready for. Speak up and make what you want known to anyone who may be pressuring you to change your ways. A job opportunity looks inviting and should be considered. decision that will keep you from spinning your wheels. Procrastination won’t lead to success. Change will help you move forward and excel. Romance is in the stars.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Travel, communication and furthering your education will play into your overall success. A change in the way you live or who you live with is favored. The power of persuasion will work well for you. Romance and personal gains are highlighted.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Take care of administrative matters in your own unique way. A settlement, contract or investment will pay off. Don’t go on a shopping spree before you have the cash in hand. Moderation is required.s favored.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your ability to be patient and charming will put you in a good position to negotiate professional gains. A unique platform to present what you want to accomplish should be considered. It’s OK to be different.

3 stars AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Take better care of your personal health and your emotional state of mind. Stressing out over money matters will not help the situation. Use your intelligence and make decisions based on what you are capable of doing.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Take charge. Don’t debate others if you don’t have to. Let your actions be your calling card and your intuition guide you in financial, medical and legal matters. The stars are aligned, so don’t waste time procrastinating or arguing.

Birthday Baby: You are imaginative, protective and compassionate. You are charming and secretive.

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Washington’s teams are cursed Tom Naatz Sports Writer

On the wall immediately to the right of my door, I’ve established what I like to call the “Memorial to Lost Causes.”

Three banners infused with some shade of red grace the wall in this corner of my dorm room. From top to bottom, in no particular order, they read: “Washington Redskins,” “Washington Nationals” and “Washington Capitals.”

Washington’s four major professional sports teams are collectively cursed. It’s been nearly 26 years since the last time one of them won a championship; none of them have played in a conference or league final since May 1998.

The soon-to-be 20-year streak of misadventures and missed opportunities is the longest of its kind in professional sports.

The Redskins have blown through a countless multitude of coaches and quarterbacks.

The Capitals, behind Alexander Ovechkin, arguably hockey’s best player, have boasted hockey’s best regular season record three times but haven’t advanced beyond the second round. The Nationals brought baseball back to the District in 2005 and have won the NL East four times in the past six years, but have failed to win a playoff series. The Wizards have a talented core but still haven’t cracked the conference finals.

I could describe particularly excruciating moments, but I lack the space and emotional capacity.

The cruel thing is all four franchises have been generally competitive. Every year since the Nationals came back in 2005, at least one has qualified for the playoffs. D.C. teams are good at inspiring brief moments of intense hope, followed by devastating collapse. Robert Griffin III was briefly one of the NFL’s most electrifying players before his career crashed and nearly brought the Redskins down with him. Since 2012, “Sports Illustrated” has predicted a Nats World Series victory multiple times. The Caps are a fixture of Stanley Cup title speculation. Yet elaborate choke jobs are as common in the district as traffic on the Beltway, and Constitution Avenue has yet to host a championship parade this century.

The makeup of the Washington metropolitan area complicates its sports culture.

Over half of Washington residents are from elsewhere, and many of these transplants remain loyal to their hometown teams. For instance, as of 2014, the Los Angeles Lakers are the

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most popular NBA team in a not insignificant number of Washington suburbs. As a result, opposing fans frequently take over Washington arenas.

In 2012, the Nationals launched a dramatically named though not necessarily successful effort to keep Philadelphia Phillies fans out of their stadium. After the Pittsburgh Penguins eliminated the Capitals from the playoffs last May, their fans publicly taunted crestfallen Caps fans from the steps of the National Portrait Gallery, directly across the street from the Capitals’ home at the thenVerizon Center, with chants of “You can’t beat us!”

I grew up in Maryland but went to high school in the district itself. Once, as I walked past a tourist school group on my way to class, a tourist gratuitously spat on my shoes. I think the story captures the essence of calling the district home.

Living in Washington can feel like living in a museum.

Because the city is so ubiquitous in national life, other people define the conversation around it. Relatedly, because of its political nature, many people automatically form a negative perception of the city and the people who live there.

Washington’s political culture does have serious issues, and of course the metro area faces serious challenges. However, most of Washington’s population is just trying to make an honest living for themselves.

Nevertheless, I think my shoes might have stayed dry if I lived in Chicago or New York.

But that’s why our sports teams are so important. They’re something other than humidity and traffic that everyone in the city can experience. The Nats unite senior members of the otherwise diametrically opposed political parties. On Sunday mornings, the 64-mile Capital Beltway becomes a circular, Redskins-themed parking lot. For a disparate community, our teams are a rare homegrown commodity.

Is the curse real? Well, early in the morning of Oct. 13 as I entered my room after watching the Cubs eliminate the Nationals from the playoffs, I noticed something lying at my feet. My Nationals poster had fallen from the Memorial during the course of the game. Was the universe sending a message? Perhaps. Did that stop me from putting the poster back immediately? Absolutely not.

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Irish travel to Indiana to face Hoosiers, Bearcats Aside from preparing for the Hoosiers, Coach Litzinger and team also had the opportunity to prepare for the Ohio State Invitational that commences next week in Columbus, Ohio and will feature some of the top teams from across the country. Last year, the Invitational was highlighted by four time Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky.

“We are always working on our “craft.” As far as anything special, we are spending time solidifying our relay line ups, and looking ahead to the Ohio State Invitational,” said Litzinger.

Like Notre Dame, Indiana has also faced ranked competition this season, as the men’s team is 4-0 this season against ranked opponents, including No. Texas and No. 4 Florida. On the women’s side, the team has a 2-2 record against ranked teams throughout the season.

The Hoosiers aren’t just and ordinary college program, as the team features three Olympic medalists in senior Blake Pieroni, junior Lilly King and redshirt senior Michael Hixon.

Pieroni claimed a gold medal at Rio in the men’s 4×100-meter relay, and King also earned two gold medals swimming in the 4×100-meter relay in addition to a medal and Olympic record in the 100-meter breaststroke.

By MIA BERRY Sports Writer

The No. 13 men’s and No. 18 women’s swimming and diving team will face their toughest challenge of the season when they travel to Bloomington, Indiana to compete against the Cincinnati Bearcats and the No. 1 ranked men’s and the No. 9 ranked women’s swimming and diving team of the Indiana Hoosiers this Thursday.

The Irish aren’t a stranger to ranked opponents this season, as they have faced three ranked opponents in Texas A&M, Louisville, and Purdue. The Irish are currently 2-1 against ranked opponents, and their success this season has contributed to their highest ranking in team’s history. After a week’s rest from competition Notre Dame will return to action this week, but head coach Mike Litzinger’s team insists the team’s didn’t necessairily rest with the time off.

“We haven’t really rested, but had a week off of competition,” Litzinger said. “That was great for our group. We could put in a solid 10 days of training, have a normal school week, and not spend the emotional energy that a competition weekend demands. I would say the athletes enjoyed a normal week.”

Hixon won a silver medal in the Synchronized 3-meter Springboard.

Coach Litzinger realizes that the upending the Hoosiers is a tall order for the Irish considering the talent on their roster, but is looking forward to the challenge “Indiana men are ranked No.1 and women are No. 9 so the competition will be as good as we have seen it,” he said. “Our group is going to approach this the same way we always do, it is business as usual. We will worry about preparing ourselves to race, and compete. If we do that we will get on the bus home happy.

“Winning at Indiana will be a tall order … we are facing some of the best competition we have seen all year.”

Despite the Olympic prowess the Hoosiers have on their team, Litzinger is very confident in his team‘s capabilities, and believes that they can rise to the occasion to upset the top ranked Hoosiers.

“The challenge is can we race and compete,” Litzinger said. “I think the answer is yes.”

The Irish will face the Hoosiers and the Bearcats in a dual meet Thursday, in Bloomington, Indiana at 2:00 pm.

Contact Mia Berry at mberry@nd.edu

nHL | Lightning 5, sharks 1

NHL-best Lightning defeat Sharks on the road Associated Press

SAN JOSE, Calif. — NHL scoring leader Steven Stamkos needs only to look across the dressing room to keep track of his closest competitor.

That would be Tampa Bay Lightning teammate Nikita Kucherov, two points behind.

“We don’t think about it that way,” Stamkos said. “It’s a treat to play with him. Vlady, too. I know he flies under the radar but he’s a huge part of our line.”

Vladislav Namestnikov had two goals, Kucherov scored his 15th of the season and the Lightning ended San Jose’s four-game winning streak by beating the Sharks 5-1 on Wednesday night.

Jake Dotchin got his first career goal and Slater Koekkoek also scored for the Lightning (12-2-2), who lead the NHL

standings with 26 points.

“That was a big moment,” Dotchin said. “That’s something I’ve been looking forward to since Day One of being in the league. Coming on a day we win makes it even better.”

Stamkos had three assists for Tampa Bay. Kucherov added two and Namestnikov had one as all three players finished with three points.

Stamkos (28 points) and Kucherov (26) rank 1-2 in the league in scoring.

“It’s fun,” Stamkos said.

“And we work hard as a line to get better. Vlady is a great player and he makes our line better.”

Joonas Donskoi scored for the Sharks, who allowed five goals for the third time this season. They gave up a total of six during their winning streak.

“We didn’t do anything

well,” coach Peter DeBoer said. “When you play an elite team, you’ve got to bring your A game and we didn’t do that across the board.”

Donskoi scored 25 seconds into the game as the Sharks peppered Andrei Vasilevskiy with a myriad of shots before Donskoi found a hole.

“Yeah, good start,” San Jose’s Marc-Edouard Vlasic said.

“Then they scored five goals.

That’s not what we wanted.

If you miss assignments and leave them alone, they’ll bury them.”

Vasilevskiy was a wall the rest of the way, stopping 32 shots on the night.

Sharks starter Martin Jones allowed four goals on 21 shots and was pulled after two periods. Aaron Dell stopped eight of nine shots in the third.

“Our game tailed off,” San Jose’s Logan Couture said.

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3-11 ACC) on the road by a score of 3-1.

Looking to repeat their success this time around, McLaughlin said the Irish have focused on accurate passing and serving in practice this week.

“We’ve really put an emphasis on our serve and pass and just getting in really good swings,” he said. “Regardless of whether they dig it or not, it’s understanding what a good swing is, being in rhythm, having good mechanics and striking the ball the right way to get it to go where we want it to go. We did a better job of that, but we’ll continue to work on that until the end.”

Notre Dame has just six matches left in the regular season, with the next four being at home.

McLaughlin said the home advantage is helpful when it comes to preparing for matches.

“It’s good to be home for a

number of reasons,” he said. “[We] play in front of our crowd, and we don’t have to travel.”

While they are not overlooking the last matches of the regular season, McLaughlin said the Irish have their postseason goals on their mind.

“The biggest thing is all the stuff we talked about early in the season,” he said. “Making the tournament is still in front of us, and we still have to approach it the right way and go one match at a time. It’s right there, and I think our girls understand that and know that. I think they know what they have to do, and we just have to go like we’ve been going all year. We have to go one match at a time and keep getting better in practice, and we have a chance.”

The Irish take on Virginia Tech on Friday at 7 p.m. and Virginia on Sunday at 1 p.m. Both matches will take place at Purcell Pavilion.

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Irish senior outside hitter Sydney Kuhn goes up for a block during Notre Dame’s 3-0 victory over Clemson on Oct. 15 at Purcell Pavilion. Kuhn had three spikes and 12 kills during the match against the Tigers.

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play of sophomore goaltender Cale Morris. Morris turned in 62 saves over the series, including 22 saves in the final period of Saturday’s 3-2 win alone. Junior defenseman Dennis Gilbert spoke highly of Morris’ play in that series.

“He’s very athletic, he competes hard for pucks. He communicates a lot. As a defenseman, when they dump a puck in he’s talking to me a lot,” Gilbert said. “On the penalty kill he talks to the defenseman a lot. In that loud Ohio State building he was vocal and really helping us out.”

With Penn State’s strong offense comes a vulnerable defense. Penn State is giving up 3.90 goals per game, which will have senior forward Jake Evans looking to hang more points on the board. The forward is leading the NCAA in points with 18 points in ten games. His 14 assists also lead the NCAA, and he is coming off of a one-goal, two-assist game last Saturday at Ohio State.

Coach Jackson spoke highly of Evans’ playmaking abilities thus far.

“He’s a smart player and he’s a senior. He’s a four-year player with ability, and he’s figured it out. Him and [fellow senior defenseman Jordan] Gross have been through everything,” Jackson said. “He hasn’t even had consistent line mates, so it’s even harder to develop chemistry.”

The Irish will take on the Nittany Lions in Big Ten conference action on Friday at 7:35 p.m. and Saturday at 5:30 p.m.

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just football, hitting the other guy kind of disrupted me a little bit,” Adams said. “The headaches cleared up going into halftime. I think at that moment we were already up by a fair margin. So I guess they just thought it was safer just to play it safe rather than continuing to play football, I guess.

But I was just, I don’t know, it was a rough week for me as far as papers and getting enough sleep and really taking care of my body. So I think a lot of that had an impact on the game as well.

“But it was a great learning moment for me moving forward, learning how to correctly take care of myself and getting enough sleep and continuing to do the things that got me here like going to treatment, taking care of my body, stuff like that. So that was nothing but just minor headaches.”

Wimbush With Adams out, Wimbush

stepped up to lead the Irish to victory, passing for 280 yards and a score and rushing for 110 yards and two touchdowns.

Graduate student offensive tackle and captain Mike McGlinchey said Wimbush has come on leaps and bounds since the beginning of the season.

“I think he’s done a great job of just getting better each and every day,” McGlinchey said.

“Brandon, obviously, isn’t a complete football player yet.

None of us are. And we just have to keep working. That’s part of the great thing about this game of football is that there’s always something to work on. And he takes that with a lot of pride and a lot of intent.

“And each and every day he’s working to get better for our football team and I think it showed on Saturday. He’s just gotten better each and every week and our team is certainly benefiting from it. I think he knows that the quarterback is as important to a football team as any position in sports. And he’s a mature guy. He knows the responsibilities that come

with that. He knows that our team looks to him for that stuff.

And he’s done a great job with it. He’s a great leader. He’s a great teammate. And you can’t really say anything else other than that for Brandon and what he’s doing now and what he’s going to continue to become.”

Adams said that he was extremely impressed by Wimbush’s performance, and finds him an enjoyable player to have on his team.

“He’s kind of grown into the player that he wants to be,” Adams said. “It’s nothing new.

He always makes plays for us.

It’s just exciting to see him go out there and kind of do his thing. He broke a long one in the game last Saturday. I mean, that was just amazing just to show you the type of things he can do on his feet. He had an exciting game throwing the ball.

“He’s overall just a great player for us to have. I mean, we enjoy having him there at quarterback, and we have a lot of fun playing with him. You just never know what he’s going to do and he does whatever he

can to help the team out, just like every guy on the offense.”

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Championship to play against No. 1 Wake Forest. Irish head coach Bobby Clark pointed to the end of the first half as a key turning point in the game, but ref lected that the Irish can find silver linings in the loss.

“I thought we started the game very well, but they really pressed us on our end, and so we had a little spell before halftime where the ball was in our half … and then [junior defender] Sean Dedrick had to come out,” Clark said.

[Sophomore midfielder] Tommy McCabe also came out in the second half with an injury, and so we probably would’ve played on Sunday with two of our starts out, so maybe it was a blessing in disguise. It’s disappointing, but it gives us ten days to prepare for the NCAAs — that’s what we’ll get ready for. I think it gives the boys a great chance to get fit again.”

Clark also ref lected on his team’s performance in the ACC Tournament, and how

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the box, where the senior forward quickly f licked the ball past incoming Virginia senior goalkeeper Jeff Caldwell for his 13th goal of the season, knotting the score at one apiece in the 49th minute.

Although it seemed the Irish had finally regained their footing, Virginia didn’t let the score remain tied for long. In the 54th minute, junior forward Edward Opoku drove the ball into the box, and his cross found the foot of freshman midfielder Joe Bell, who smashed home to give the Cavaliers a 2-1 lead.

For the rest of the game, Notre Dame struggled to generate genuine scoring opportunities, while Virginia successfully controlled possession and even threatened to extend the lead on multiple occasions, eventually earning themselves a trip to the ACC

Defense The previously-dominant Irish defense gave up a seasonhigh in both points and yards to Wake Forest last week, as the team recorded its lowest winning margin of the season. Senior linebacker Drue Tranquill said the entire defense was determined to make up for the blip with another dominating performance when they face No. 7 Miami on Saturday.

“I think when you just talk about greatness in general, consistency is the hardest thing, week in, week out basis,” Tranquill said. “That’s what makes champions champions, though, and that’s what we’re striving to be. So it’s just getting back to what we’ve been doing and preaching a message of consistency, and week nine, week ten it gets difficult to do that especially when you’ve been going since January.

Refocusing whether it’s old guys new guys and refocusing on cohesiveness.

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“I think we’re just getting back to our process, getting back to our traits. And the way we prepared last week wasn’t the best week of preparation.

And we’re kind of getting back to basics this week in terms of how we’ve gone about preparing the first eight weeks of the season and getting back to that.”

Senior linebacker Nyles Morgan said that the team was motivated, but the mindset of dominating opponents was something that should be expected every week for the Irish defense.

“It’s never about being just better than we were the last time,” Morgan said. “It’s about being the best we can. So I feel like every game, good or bad, indifferent, we always turn on the corrections and figure out how to make it better on D-line, linebackers to safeties.”

The Irish will face Miami at 8 p.m. on Saturday at Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens.

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it’ll prepare the team for the upcoming NCAA Tournament.

“Difficult games — we had to travel to North Carolina for a very tough road game, came back, and then traveled again to Virginia, and if we had one, we would’ve had to travel again on Sunday,” Clark said. ”I’d say that the ACC Championship is harder to win than the NCAA Championship at the moment. I think at the end of the day, we realize how hard our league is …and I think it prepares you superbly [for the National Championship]. If you want to get to the Final Four you’ll have to win at least one game of the caliber of going to North Carolina or Virginia.”

Next up for Notre Dame is the NCAA Tournament, or College Cup. The Irish will find out on Monday, Nov. 13 where they have been seeded within the 48-team field.

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Irish junior defender Sean Dedrick sends a long pass up the field during Notre Dame’s 2-1 win in overtime over Northwestern on Oct. 3.

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Irish sophomore Tommy McCabe sends a pass through the midfield during Notre Dame’s 2-1 win in overtime over Northwestern on Oct 3. McCabe has played and started in 18 games so far this season.

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Team falls to Cavaliers in ACC semifinal

Notre Dame to host Penn State

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In ACC semifinal play, No. 13 Notre Dame battled hard, but ultimately lost to No. 17 Virginia 2-1 Wednesday night at Klocker Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Throughout the majority of the first half, neither the seventh-seeded Irish (11-6-2, 3-3-2 ACC) or the sixth-seeded Cavaliers (12-3-4, 3-2-3) were able to take the lead. Virginia finally drew first blood in the 38th minute, however, when Cavalier sophomore midfielder Robin Afamefuna slotted the ball home past Notre Dame grad student goalkeeper Chris Hubbard for his first goal of the season, putting Virginia up 1-0 heading into halftime.

In the second half, however, the Irish responded quickly. Junior forward Thomas Ueland pushed the ball up the field and found the run of Jon Gallagher into the middle of

This weekend, the sixthranked Irish will play host to the nineteenth-ranked Nittany Lions of Penn State at Compton Family Ice Arena.

Penn State (5-5-0, 2-2-0 Big Ten) are coming off splitting a home series with Mercyhurst and will look to challenge the Irish (6-3-1, 2-0-0), who are coming off of a sweep of Ohio State in their first Big Ten series. Coach Jeff Jackson said he thought that the Irish played their best hockey of the season against the Buckeyes.

“It was probably our best weekend of hockey thus far, we played fairly consistent through the 120 minutes,” Jackson said. “I thought we played a smart game. We did a good job of pressuring the puck and making good puck plays.”

The Ohio State weekend was a strong one for the Irish, but their attention is now squarely on the the Nittany Lions. Penn State is the reigning Big Ten

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Junior midfielder Thomas Ueland battles a defender during Notre Dame’s 2-1 win in overtime over Northwestern on Oct. 3.

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Notre Dame hosts ACC opponents Virginia Tech and Virginia this weekend, looking to record conference wins as they head into their last stretch of home games for the regular season.

The Irish (17-8, 7-7 ACC) are coming off a loss to Duke and a win against Wake Forest on the road.

Against the Blue Devils (16-10, 8-7 ACC), Notre Dame won the first set and lost the next three, dropping the match 3-1.

Head coach Jim McLaughlin said his team has room for improvement, particularly in minimizing errors on the court.

“There’s a lot to learn,” McLaughlin said. “When we play clean volleyball and control our unforced errors that have nothing to do with the opponent, we’re really good. Our girls are beginning to know that and understand it, and they’re beginning to do it. The knowing is the easy part, and the doing is the hard part. You have to do things, but first you have to know things.”

Against Wake Forest, senior

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hockey champion and this year has a high-flying offense, averaging 3.80 goals per game, good for seventh in the NCAA. Jackson said he believes that Penn State’s speed and offensive skill makes them a tough opponent.

“They’re as aggressive offensively as any team that we play. They have a philosophy in getting shots to the net,” he said. “They’ll have 50 shots a night more than likely, they do every week. They shoot the puck from every angle and every rush, they’re always in attack mode. It’s really their philosophy that makes them a challenge because they play a high-tempo transition game, they have a good power play, they have several really talented offensive players up front.”

Notre Dame will be forced to slow their offense down, but the Irish appear up to the task. The team is coming off a series where it only allowed three goals to Ohio State, largely off the strong

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outside hitter Sydney Kuhn tied her career high with 20 kills in the match. She also tied her season high for digs with 17 and recorded a hitting percentage of .304.

McLaughlin said the senior’s contributions to the team’s play this season have been critical to its overall success.

“It’s hard to put that into words, but her impact is significant,” he said. “Before the Wake Forest match, my assistant [gave me] the numbers. [Kuhn] was getting better the last three weeks, and so we changed the lineup a little bit just based on these numbers and her improvement, and she played well.”

“Everything they learn in this gym when we’re practicing happens in the game — emotionally, mentally, physically,” McLaughlin said. “Everything that happens in practice happens in the match, and Syd’s been a good example of that.

We just need more kids doing the things that they do in practice.”

Back in the beginning of October, the Irish beat both the Cavaliers (718, 3-11 ACC) and the Hokies (9-16,

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No. 3 Notre Dame players discussed the progression of junior quarterback Brandon Wimbush and the defense’s attempts to rebound after giving up 37 points and 587 yards on Saturday to Wake Forest during players’ availability Wednesday.

Although junior running back Josh Adams came into the game against Wake Forest as a Heisman Trophy candidate, he had only five carries in the game for 22 yards, getting pulled from the game in the first quarter and never returning, although the Irish still managed to rush for 380 yards. After the game, Irish head coach Brian Kelly said Adams did not show concussion symptoms, but was dealing with tiredness after a busy week. Adams clarified his situation further, explaining that he had been suffering from headaches before the game and in the first half.

“So I was getting like headaches before the game the day before, and I don’t know,

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Irish junior quarterback Brandon Wimbush rushes towards the end zone during Notre Dame’s 48-37 win over Wake Forest on Nov.4.

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By DANIEL O’BOYLE Sports Writer