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Community speaks on climate change Notre Dame students, faculty address South Bend Common Council meeting about global issue

By RYAN KOLAKOWSKI News Writer

People of the Notre Dame and South Bend communities, all sporting bright green stickers reading “Climate Champions,” filtered into the the City County Building in downtown South Bend Monday for the South Bend Common Council meeting regarding climate change.

The room was filled — nearly to capacity — with young people, Notre Dame students and faculty who have teamed up to promote climate recovery in South Bend. This meeting, the first of two conversations on climate change with the Council, provides students

with a platform to discuss the causes of climate change and the negative effects that have impacted South Bend and Notre Dame.

Alan Hamlet, a civil and environmental engineering professor, shared an overview of the effects climate change will have on South Bend and Notre Dame.

Hamlet presented the results from the Indiana Climate Change Impact Assessment, a project of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center.

“W hat people do in the 21st century, it plays a very significant role in how warm climate gets in Indiana,” see CLIMATE PAGE 3

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Notre Dame senior Tai Verbrugge speaks on the topic of climate change at a South Bend Common Council meeting Monday evening, bringing together South Bend residents and the Notre Dame community.

Tony Award winner visits Saint Mary’s

By MARIROSE OSBORNE News Writer

Saint Mary’s College community members, from professors to therapy dogs, filled O’Laughlin Auditorium Monday evening to see two-time Tony Award winning actress, singer and dancer Sutton Foster speak.

Foster’s visit is the latest in a series of guest artists visits made possible by the Margaret Hill

Endowment.

“We want to bring in well known Broadway powerhouses in order to motivate and inspire students in our musical theater minor” Mark Albin, the administrative assistant for communications, dance and theater department, said.

Some of the other visitors have been women like Glenn Close, Audra McDonald and Sigourney Weaver, senior theater major Stephanie Johnson explained.

Along with her questionand-answer session, Foster hosted a masterclass for students in which she discussed musical theater and helped students workshop their pieces.

Albin explained that there were about 40 students — from Saint Mary’s, Notre Dame and local high schools — present in the masterclass.

Johnson, who attended the masterclass and was able to sing for Foster, talked about the impact Foster’s visit had

World Cinema Festival features foreign films

By CALLIE PATRICK News Writer

Saint Mary’s Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership (CWIL) office coordinated 2019’s annual World Cinema Festival.

The festivities start Tuesday and extend to

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Friday, showing three movies from across the globe. All showings start at 7 p.m. in Vander Vennett Theater in the Student Center.

The showings are free and open to the public.

“Generally, I select the films after soliciting suggestions from faculty and

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students, or anyone else who wants to send me ideas,” Mana Derakhshani, director of CWIL, said. “I look for films that bring new perspectives to our understanding of various places in the world. I also look for award-winning films to see CINEMA PAGE 3

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on her.

“Theater has always been a part of my life,” Johnson said. “I think it’s valuable as a young artist to learn about the personal struggle of other artists. And it’s very inspiring to see someone who works against the stereotypes for female roles and allows women to be quirky or even gross without it being seen as a fault.”

Foster’s presentation was an entertaining interview style. Foster said

her own inspiration came from comic powerhouses like Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett.

“In so many musicals, women are the victims. Their songs emphasize the sort of woe is me, I have nothing attitude. I just find that boring,” Foster said. “I want to see strength and action in female characters. I want characters who are ready to take their heartbreak see FOSTER PAGE 4

Office to promote student garden

By SERENA ZACHARIAS News Writer

On the corner of Iv y and Douglas Roads, across the street from Warren Golf Course, a lush plot of land tended by the Notre Dame communit y grows steadily, unbeknow nst to many members of the Notre Dame

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communit y. This plot of land is home to the Universit y’s campus garden, which is separated into t wo portions — a communit y and student section — both of which allow gardeners to grow a variet y of organic plants and produce, A llison Mihalich, the see GARDEN PAGE 4

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By GENEVEIVE REDSTEN News Writer

With the hopes of promoting sustainability on campus, Notre Dame’s student senate passed a resolution Monday evening in favor of adding a sustainability lesson to the Moreau First-Year Experience course.

Lewis Hall senator Dana Plagenz co-authored the resolution after discovering that 92.5 percent of Notre Dame students want to learn more about the campus’ sustainability efforts. Plagenz, who conducted a survey for a sustainability course, was troubled to learn that a large percentage of Notre Dame students held misconceptions about issues of sustainability, both on campus and in general.

“We found that kind of alarming,” Plagenz said.

Plagenz partnered with Alumni Hall senator and chair of the senate sustainability committee Daniel Rottenborn, and the two explored strategies to raise awareness about

sustainability on campus.

“We decided that Moreau would be the best place to implement this because it’s the only class that everybody has to take here, ... and it’s in your first year, and it’s supposed to orient you to University life and well-being and challenge you to think critically,” Plagenz said.

As Plagenz prepares to discuss her proposal with University officials next week, she and Rottenborn hope that the resolution will send a strong message from the student body.

“We felt that it would be important for us to have something more tangible … something official from the students,” Rottenborn said.

While the resolution passed with majority support, some senators expressed concern that students would not take the information seriously in the context of the Moreau course.

“If your goal is to educate people about sustainability, this will just become one more [lesson] module,” Saint Edward’s Hall senator John

Usher said.

But other senators pushed back, arguing that student government should work to improve the Moreau curriculum by teaching relevant and meaningful information. Although senators widely agreed that Moreau has its flaws, many also pointed out that the Moreau course is here to stay.

Student body president Gates McGavick and vice president Corey Gayheart also briefed senators about developments on the topics of sexual assault and club funding.

Following last week’s senate meeting, McGavick and Gayheart met with University administrators to discuss new student government business.

Administrators corrected elements of student body president-elect Elizabeth Boyle’s presentation on Title IX, the federal law that regulates sexual misconduct policies on college campuses.

Administrators clarified that Notre Dame, in fact, does not currently practice mediation

between sexual assault survivors and perpetrators and does not plan to in the future.

Additionally, administrators assured McGavick and Gayheart that residence hall rectors are and will remain mandatory reporters of sexual assault.

McGavick and Gayheart also expressed confidence in their legislative agenda. After struggling to increase club funding in the previous weeks, McGavick said they were making progress.

Two weeks ago, the student senate rejected a resolution to reallocate funding from student union organizations toward other student organizations. McGavick said that he and Gayheart are approaching a compromise with members of the Student Union Board and the class councils.

“I am more confident than ever that it’s going to get done,” McGavick said.

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Flaherty Hall to launch new signature event

By SOPHIA LAUBER News Writer

Standing out as a signature event among many on Notre Dame’s campus can be challenging. As a relatively new dorm on campus built in 2016, Flahert y Hall is taking on the challenge of cooking one up from scratch.

Flahert y Hall w ill be kicking off its new signature event, “Flahert y Food Fights,” Tuesday evening at 5 p.m. in both North and South Dining Halls. The event — a cooking tournament that w ill culminate in a competition between a team from North Dining Hall (NDH) and another from South Dining Hall (SDH) — w ill raise money for Beacon Children’s Hospital in South Bend.

“It’s like the show ‘Chopped’ on Food Network,” Theresa Rogers, sophomore signature event commissioner, said. “Ever y dorm gets one team, and then they all compete in a tournamentst yle cooking competition in the dining halls. So, as in ‘Chopped,’ you get a myster y ingredient, and you have to

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Hamlet said. “It’s ver y important, what we do in terms of mitigating or correcting the situation w ith too many greenhouse gases in the env ironment.”

Hamlet said South Bend residents need to be prepared for significant warming, even if practices are put in place to reduce carbon emissions.

Models show average temperatures could increase between 10 and 15 degrees Fahrenheit in Indiana, Hamlet said.

“These changes are extremely large,” he said. “If this happens, we w ill suffer severe impacts in Indiana and as a nation going for ward.”

Notre Dame senior Tai Verbrugge shared his ow n concerns about climate

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ensure good quality.”

The World Cinema Festival is an annual event at Saint Mar y’s College.

“They have offered the World Cinema Festival since 2011,” Derak hshani said.

“Before that, we offered a French Film Festival for about five years. So for the

incorporate it into a cohesive dish.”

Rogers came up w ith the idea for the event after talking w ith a family friend who used to be a resident in Pangborn Hall.

“She was telling me how her friends used to do this thing in the dining hall where they would find a random person to give them a myster y ingredient,” Rogers said. “They would have to go and make a dish w ith the ingredient and bring it back to the table for dinner. They would all taste test each other’s dishes and judge which one was best.”

In Tuesday’s competition, a panel of judges — some who are from the dining hall staff — w ill taste the dishes and rank them based off of creativ it y, presentation and taste. The w inner w ill move onto the next round of competition, which w ill be at 5 p.m. on Thursday.

The third and final round w ill be between the w inning teams from NDH and SDH and w ill take place at NDH at 5 p.m. on Friday.

Rogers said her committee has been taking advantage of the NDH and SDH rivalr y.

“It already ex ists, so we might as well use it to our advantage to generate some excitement. Friendly competition is always good,” Rogers said.

The w inning team w ill get Insomnia Cookies at their dorm’s next hall council and a trophy to be placed in the dining hall they represented in the competition.

In terms of hall tradition, it can be said that Flahert y is in a unique situation because of the hall’s origins. W hen Flahert y opened in 2016, all of the residents then liv ing in Pangborn were moved to Flahert y.

“It’s been a combination of sav ing traditions and making new ones,” Rogers said. “Most of the people in Flahert y now have only know n Flahert y, which is cool because we’re getting to the point where we’re establishing this is our dorm and this is what we do.”

A long w ith balancing old and new, Rogers said she

faces challenges that can come w ith establishing any new tradition at Notre Dame.

“It’s definitely challenging because we want to get it to a point where our events are mentioned and then people know what they are, but it w ill take time,” Rogers said. “It’ll take years to get there, but it’s definitely really fun to get to be the ones to decide what those events are going to be.”

Rogers said another challenge in creating the event has been getting the word out in order to increase participation.

Earlier this Februar y, sophomore Blake Johnson of Siegfried Hall started Sigg y Week, Siegfried’s first-ever spirit week. Johnson said the biggest challenge of starting a new tradition at Notre Dame is getting people to buy into it.

“W hen things are new, people are hesitant to participate because it’s unestablished,” Johnson said.

“People might think, ‘This is not going to last, it’s a new thing.’ But as soon as people start getting into

the spirit and start realizing that this is something that can be a lot fun, that’s when people rally around it.”

Rogers said she and her committee are focused on publicizing the event by handing out information in dining halls, speaking at hall council meetings and circulating a Facebook inv itation.

“It’s super new, so this year we’re really focusing on getting participation up,” Rogers said. “That way, in subsequent years, we can raise more and more money for Beacon because they’re a really good charit y that we enjoy working w ith.”

The amount of money each dorm raises for Beacon Children’s Hospital w ill be directly related to how much time that dorm’s team gets to prepare their dish.

Donations can be made through Venmo pay ments directed to @f lahert yfoodfights w ith the name of the dorm one w ishes to support in the subject line.

change w ith the five present council members. He said that the concentration of carbon diox ide in the atmosphere has reached levels around 400 parts per million, higher than ever before in recorded histor y.

“The greenhouse effect gives us relatively straightfor ward logic,” Verbrugge said. “The more carbon diox ide t here is in t he atmosphere, t he hotter our planet gets.”

Verbrugge said t hat change must come from loca l communities like Sout h Bend because nationa l and globa l climate recover y efforts have not been ta ken seriously.

“The Paris Agreement ca lls on each of its 184 ratif y ing parties to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, t hough contributions var y countr y by countr y,” Verbrugge said. “Though

t he Paris Agreement went into force in 2016, t he W hite House has since signa led t hat A merican w it hdrawa l from t hat is on t he table, so it’s clear t hat federa l help in t his is not necessarily coming.”

Senior Jacqueline Brebeck framed t he impacts of climate change around Sout h Bend and Notre Dame. A polar vortex brought subzero temperatures to Sout h Bend w it h w ind chills near 50 degrees below zero during t he last week of Januar y.

“A couple weeks ago, we a ll had t he pleasure of experiencing t he polar vortex,” Brebeck said. “It is named t he polar vortex for a reason. It should stay t here … W hen we were experiencing t he polar vortex, A laska was actua lly warmer t han us and hav ing not a bad day, so t hat is one ver y rea l scenario t hat has

a lready happened in Sout h Bend.”

Students from Good Shepherd Montessori School and John Adams High School aided Notre Students w it h t heir presentations.

Council members Jo Broden and Ja ke Teshka led t he audience in applause af ter t he student presentations concluded.

Philip Sa k imoto, t he director of t he Program in Academic Excellence at Notre Dame, shared a public comment near t he end of t he Common Council meeting.

“Wouldn’t it be great to, w it hin t he next mont h or t wo, hand Mayor Pete [Buttigieg] a climate recover y ordinance for his signature? ” Sa k imoto said.

“Imagine him bringing t hat to t he nationa l stage say ing t hat, ‘Look, t his is what we did in Sout h Bend. This is what t he entire countr y can

do.’”

The Sout h Bend Common Council w ill reconvene on Feb. 27 to continue t he conversation about climate change. Next week, t he council w ill focus on loca l solutions, said Therese Dorau, t he director of t he Sout h Bend Of f ice of Sustainabilit y.

The council members expressed gratitude for t he presenters and ot her students in attendance Monday night.

“First and foremost, let me a ll just t hank you a ll,” Broden said. “W hat you have done tonight for our communit y and for our council is prov ide compelling science and compelling testimony. Your voices w ill not go unheard.

Your plea w ill not go unanswered as far as I can help it.”

past 13 to 14 years, there has been a week of foreign films hosted by Saint Mar y’s College.”

The films range in origin from year to year. This year’s lineup features the historical drama “Golden Door” from Italy, which follows a struggling Sicilian family and their voyage to New York. “Go Away, Mr. Tumor,” a Chinese film, is based on a famous comic series, and featured from India,

is “English to Vinglish,” which is a comedy-drama about a woman learning English.

The film festival is part of CW IL’s efforts to internationalize the campus through extra-curricular activ ities, Derak hshani said.

“A lthough a large percentage of Saint Mar y’s students study abroad, they do not all get the experience of immersion in a different culture.

Through these films, they can become a ver y shortterm sojourner into a new countr y,” she said. “The Festival offers students opportunities to learn about the world and increase their global and intercultural perspective through a different medium. It also supports academic programs such as Global Studies, Film Studies and Intercultural Studies.”

Films w ill be show n

in their original language w ith English subtitles, and there w ill be “countr y-themed” snacks offered.

This is an opportunit y to see films not usually seen in the United States, Derak hshani said, as well as to learn something about another culture’s perspective.

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senior program director in the Office of Sustainabilit y said.

To decide the future operation plans for the student section of the garden, the Office of Sustainabilit y w ill hold a “Student Garden Kick-Off” meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the McNeill Room in LaFortune Student Center.

The Notre Dame community and student garden was initially established in 2010 at W hite Field and was relocated to Iv y Road in 2017 to allow for more expansion and to create a more secure and convenient location for gardeners.

Sophomore Daphne Saloomey worked on a sustainability project fall semester investigating Notre Dame’s campus garden and creating a proposal to restore and revamp the garden, which included spreading awareness of the existence of the land and encouraging students to care for the garden.

“We discovered that essentially the biggest barrier to the garden is the fact that no one knows about it and because no one knows about it, there’s no one maintaining it,” Saloomey said.

Saloomey said these gardens encourage a community to come together by allowing anyone, regardless of level of experience, to attend to the plants.

“Students would be able to have fresh produce for themselves while meeting people who have the same interests and values as them, whether that be sustainability or gardening or just being one with nature,” she said.

W hile the Office of Sustainability wants students to have access to the fresh, free produce, Mihalich said it also plans to have a share shelf for produce to be exchanged between community and student gardeners. In addition, she said it is planning food rescue runs to homeless shelters to donate leftover produce.

“The garden is important

to Notre Dame because it promotes a connectedness to food, and it provides a space for people to learn,” Mihalich said.

Sophomore Daniel Rottenborn, an intern in the Office of Sustainability, said the garden even contains a honey bee colony a Notre Dame community member installed over the summer.

“I think that’s just one example of how community engagement helps the garden go in directions it otherwise might not if it was only run by the administration or by students,” he said.

Becoming involved in the garden is free, Mihalich said, and seeds, plants, tools, gloves and an organic compost are provided to students.

She said the Office’s primar y goal this year is to engage undergraduate and graduate students who will remain at Notre Dame over the summer to start planting to have produce ready for students who return in August because peak har vesting season begins in July and August and runs through October.

The student garden will also ser ve another purpose unrelated to planting and gardening.

“We feel at the Office of Sustainability that there is a real opportunity for students to bridge the gap between the Notre Dame bubble and the South Bend community, and this garden might be one way for them to do that,” Rottenborn said.

From creating yoga day to an open mic night, Rottenborn said the Office of Sustainability hopes to use the garden for community outreach to send a sustainability-based message to the student body.

“The garden is meant to be a common human resource,” Rottenborn said. “Ever ybody who wants to get involved should be able to get something positive out of it, and right now with [the meeting], we’re tr ying to get the word out and get the garden in the position we want it to be.”

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and actively fight against it.”

Foster also discussed the impact an actor can have on a role, and how a role can change the actor or actress.

“There are a lot of cases where I end up changing the key a song is sung in.

Or they end up changing a word because I can sing something else better,” she said. “I think a lot of people are afraid they won’t live up to someone else who played the role, but everyone brings something new to a role, and we’re just constantly working and figuring things out.”

Foster ended the night with some advice for students who are about to graduate and move into the real world.

“Be gentle and patient with yourselves. Your 20s are a decade of firsts, first house, first full time job, first love, first plant,” she said.

She also had some advice on jobs and trying new

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Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster answered questions Monday evening and hosted a masterclass for about 40 students.

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“Don’t let rejection defeat you — let it fuel you,” Foster said. “Don’t think too much about what you’re going to do, just leap into your life. And then figure

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By LUCAS MASIN-MOYER Assistant Managing Editor

In June of 2017, I made my way down from my temporary home in Concord, New Hampshire, to New York to see LCD Soundsystem at Brooklyn Steel. This show — which I got into despite a brief fake ticket scare — staged about two-and-a-half months before the release of the band’s fourth album, “American Dream,” was being used, in part, as testing ground for new material off the album.

While the band, led by singer and multi-instrumentalist James Murphy, had recently released two singles from the album — “american dream” and “call the police” — it took the opportunity to debut two new songs that night which would also make their way onto the coming LP, “emotional haircut” and “tonite.”

Of these two songs, “tonite” — a frenetic, synth-heavy track about generational angst — stood out to me as particularly impressive.

But when the “tonite” was released as a single in August, I was left a little disappointed. Now don’t get me wrong, I loved “tonite” and the rest of “American Dream” when it was released, but the album version of “tonite” never quite fulfilled the expectations I had after hearing the song live. It was a little too polished, missing some of the chaotic, punk-like energy the band famously exhibits on stage.

With the release of LCD Soundsystem’s “Electric Lady Sessions,” I was finally able to hear “tonite,” along with much of the rest of “American Dream,” performed live.

“Electric Lady Sessions” consists of 12 songs recorded

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(Spoiler Alert) If we had to be honest with ourselves, no one thought that 2014’s “The Lego Movie” was going to amount to anything other than a cheap cash grab.

We were sorely mistaken. The movie grossed over $460 million in the U.S. alone and was considered a big contender for Best Animated Film at the Oscars (sadly, the committee didn’t even nominate it). Following the movie’s massive success, Warner Brothers churned out three more movies set within the Lego world, each less intriguing than the last.

Five years later, we finally get a sequel to the original starring Chris Pratt as Emmet and Elizabeth Banks as his edgy female friend, Wyldstyle. The film begins where the last ended. Emmet and his new friends are celebrating their victory over the first film’s villain President Business (Will Ferrell) when strange-looking aliens arrive to destroy their city, Bricksburg. Chaos ensues. Our heroes battle the aliens furiously, leaving the city in ruins. As time goes on, the Lego intruders keep attacking the city, leaving Bricksburg a desolate parody of a city in a “Mad Max” film.

at Jimi Hendrix’s legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York, where everyone from The Clash to Taylor Swift to David Bowie has recorded music. Six of these songs come from “American Dream,” two from 2010’s “This is Happening,” one from 2007’s “Sound of Silver” and three covers.

Almost all the cuts from “American Dream” are infused with a new energy on this recording. As with “tonite,” “call the police” is now more frenetic, taking a song about the band’s insecurities — and the socio-political chaos during the early months of President Donald Trump’s time in power — and adding all the nervous energy they’ve felt in the two years since. Even more jagged and grating guitars on “emotional haircut” bring the track even closer to the status of post-punk classic, and the dark, overlapping synths on “i used to” soar in a way that those on the original recording never did, creating an even darker and atmospheric mood. Two of the “American Dream” cuts — namely, “american dream” and “oh baby” — largely resemble their counterparts on the album but still sound fantastic performed live.

But it may be the covers that LCD Soundsystem chose to record at Electric Lady Studios that stand out the most.

The band’s cover of the Human League’s 1981 recording, “Seconds” starts the album. Though it largely mirrors the original, the song is slightly darker, and uses more distorted synths to craft a bleaker mood in a song about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. On the other two covers, multi-instrumentalist and backup vocalist Nancy Whang is given a chance to shine, taking over lead vocals on Chic’s “I Want Your Love,” and Heaven 17’s “(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang.” The latter of these

two tracks is a near perfect cover, with the lyrics updated to reflect the band’s distaste for Trump and the jagged guitar chords and dance beats LCD Soundsystem made their name on.

If the album has any weaknesses, it comes from the rerecordings of the band’s earlier material. While “home” pairs perfectly with “tonite” on the track listing and is as beautifully wistful as the original, both “get innocuous” and “you wanted a hit” fall a little flat compared to the original cuts.

Despite these shortcomings, “Electric Lady Sessions” is a triumph. The sessions capture all the raw energy of the band’s live shows, give the band an opportunity to embark on new territory with masterful covers and allow them to find all the shortcomings of “American Dream” and correct them, delivering even more engaging songs in the process.

As his whole world changes, Emmet holds onto the positive, optimistic personality for which he is known (annoying his friends in the process). Soon, the aliens arrive for another attack, led by their general, Sweet Mayhem. Once they all make it safely inside, Emmet notices that one of the General’s sentient weapons is caught between the closing bunker doors. Out of compassion for the object, Emmet opens the door to let it escape. Wyldstyle does not enjoy this.

Despite Wyldstyle’s anger, Emmet thinks that everyone is safe until he realizes that his little gesture allowed the General to sneak inside. The General eventually kidnaps all of Emmet’s friends. Feeling guilty for his friends’ disappearance, Emmet decides to journey to the Systar System with his new friend Rex Dangervest (Chris Pratt) to save them.

The film then divides its time between scenes of Emmet training with Rex and expositional scenes in which Emmet’s friends learn why they were kidnapped. Sadly, these scenes are where the movie’s problems start. It’s clear that a lot of effort went into creating the Systar system’s bright colors, glitter and cheesy pop music, perhaps more than the filmmakers put toward effective plotting (especially in the Emmet/Rex plot line).

Luckily, the two side stories merge in the third act

as Emmet and his friends realize that the creatures of the Systar System wanted to unite the two worlds by marrying their Queen, Watevra Wa’Nabi (Tiffany Haddish) and Batman (Will Arnett) in order to prevent “Armageddon.” They do not suspect that Rex’s secret: that he is actually a future version of Emmet who has returned to the past to make sure that Armageddon occurs.

Surprisingly, Rex succeeds. Armageddon places everyone in storage boxes, and sends Emmet under the washing machine to turn into his future self.

However, this is where the movie makes a very interesting and thought provoking point. It’s in the midst of defeat that our heroes realize that everything is not as awesome as they thought it was, and that there is a lot of evil in the world. They decide not to close themselves off but instead try to make things awesome amidst all of the troubles they face.

Inspired by these new realizations, Emmet decides to pick himself up and face Rex again. The two clash until Wyldstyle joins Emmet to finish off Rex and return their world to equilibrium.

Communicating a simple yet deep message, “The Lego Movie 2” (though it may not stand up to the first one) is definitely worth checking out.

Contact Lucas Masin-Moyer at lmasinmo@nd.edu

“Electric Lady Sessions” LCD Soundsystem Label: Columbia Tracks: “tonite,” “We Don’t Need (This Fascist Groove Thing,” “Seconds” If you like: David Bowie, Hot Chip, The Rapture

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Apologies for Domerfest

New York doesn’t need Amazon headquarters Patrick McKelvey With the Current

Marirose Osborne News Writer

I know it’s been a while since Domerfest, but I always felt too embarrassed to share this story before, but now I’ve come to terms with it. From what I can tell, there seems to be three types of Domerfest interactions for Saint Mary’s students. Number one is undoubtedly the easiest. You meet a guy or two and you guys start talking and become friends. The friendship may or may not last a long time, but it made the night enjoyable. The second is when you start dating the guy you meet at Domerfest.

This is a bit rarer than the first, but it still happens. Then there’s the third. The type of interaction where you get so embarrassed you just sort of hide with the Saint Mary’s friends all night and only talk to guys as a side note when they approach your friends. And if this seems overly specific, that’s because it is.

When I think about Domerfest, there are a few things I clearly remember. I got a free shirt and a free towel, which was nice. My older brother, a junior at Notre Dame, had told me that a guy who he knew was going to be the DJ and also that Domerfest was where I would meet my future husband. The second was just him messing with me, but I did manage to sneak a picture of the DJ and it turns out it was his friend. So I suppose the first part of my Domerfest apology goes to the DJ. Sorry that I forgot your name and just reference you as “the DJ” in my mind, and sorry I took a picture of you and then sent it to my brother without your permission; that would’ve been weird if he didn’t know you.

The second apology goes hand in hand with the main interaction I had with a guy at Domerfest. Before I explain that, I have to explain something about my high school. I went to a fairly strict Jesuit high school in the suburbs of Chicago. To put it politely, most of the guys who went there favored a certain look. Specifically the khaki shorts/polo-shirt-white-guy-wearing-loafers look.

Plus our school colors were maroon and gold, while our mascot was the Ramblers (don’t ask me what a Rambler is, no one at our school knew). Anyway, I’m at Domerfest, standing in line for the free ice cream when a men’s dorm from Notre Dame comes in. All the guys are whooping, hollering and jumping, pretty standard Domerfest stuff.

They move through the ice cream line and one of them holds out his hand to give me a fist bump while yelling “Yeah, Domerfest!” Two things. One, I couldn’t comprehend the fact that a guy who didn’t know me would ever speak to me, and secondly, not only did he have the look of most guys at my high school, he was wearing a maroon shirt with words in gold.

Then my brain decided, OK, we know this guy, but what’s his name? So I start running through names in my head, just trying to figure out what his name is and what class I know him from. I was also panicking because I thought he would call me by name and then I’d have to fake my way through an “Oh yeah, haha. Thanks ... you.” It was at that moment I realized that not only did I not know the person in front of me, he had held out his hand for a fist bump and my response was staring at him blankly for a solid minute. Not moving, not saying anything, just staring like a deer in headlights. Finally my brain realized what an idiot I was being and gave him a fistbump back and luckily he moved on without making a big deal out of it, but to be fair it was probably pretty startling from where he was too. So to that guy, I apologize. I never learned your name and I hope you managed to have a good Domerfest, but just know I’m going to be telling this story for as long as I can remember it.

Contact Marirose Osborne at mosborne01@saintmarys.edu The views expressed in this Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

On Thursday, Amazon announced it would no longer be building its planned “HQ2” in New York. After months of courtship and discussion, the company had decided to place one half of its new headquarters in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York. Amazon would have earned the city approximately $27 billion in tax revenue and created 25,000 jobs.

In exchange, the city would provide Amazon with $3 billion in tax incentives. But none of it is happening now.

The company released a statement explaining the cancelation, saying “the commitment to build a new headquarters requires positive, collaborative relationships with … elected officials [but] a number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project.” Indeed, many state and local politicians did oppose its presence, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, city councilmen and New York State senators and assemblymen.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo, however, had championed the arrival of Amazon in New York. The deal they crafted could only be described as equitable; it checked off everything on the company’s wish list. But because a few vocal politicians and citizens have voiced their opposition to HQ2, Amazon has backed out of its promise. “They took their ball and went home,” de Blasio said. Like a petulant child, whining even after getting all it wanted, the company has decided to cower from New York, retreating to a place where people will be less likely to speak their minds.

I’m relieved.

New York never needed Amazon. It certainly didn’t need to provide it with a $3 billion tax incentive for building HQ2. The company made $11.2 billion in profits last year, and paid no federal taxes. In fact, it received a rebate of $129 million, making the effective tax rate for one of the largest companies in the world negative 1 percent. Amazon should not need an incentive to build any where. The city’s money will be

better spent fixing its underfunded education system or its crumbling infrastructure.

Before HQ2, the de Blasio administration had planned on using that area of Long Island City for the creation of as many as 1,500 units of affordable housing. Those plans are again free to proceed.

Other tech companies have already announced expansion in New York to fill the gap Amazon is leaving. Google is building a new $1 billion campus in Manhattan’s West Village.

Within 10 years, the company will employ more than 14,000 New Yorkers. They didn’t ask for, and will not receive, a dollar in tax incentives for doing so.

And, now, Queens gets its soul back. It’s never been as popular, or as glamorous, as the other boroughs. But it’s always had character. Its neighborhoods have a tenacity, an authenticity, that left most of Manhattan and Brooklyn long ago. An 8 million square-foot Amazon campus could have killed that. It would have meant skyrocketing housing prices that push locals out and bring gentrifiers in. From Bayside to Jamaica to the Rockaways, Queens has always held a special place in New York as both a residential respite and a bustling nucleus in its own right. For at least a little longer now, it gets to stay that way.

Twenty-five thousand jobs are worth much more than my own perceptions of Queens. But other companies have already proven that tech jobs will come to New York, as everything does.

If Amazon is unwilling to see the opportunity it is wasting, it has forfeited the right to a presence in the city. If it is unable to see the generosity of the offer given to it, it did not deserve it.

If Amazon is offended that New Yorkers would not bend over backwards, if it could not handle any criticism of HQ2 at all, then it is better off, too. Amazon never would’ve made it in New York.

Patrick McKelvey splits his time between being a college junior and a grumpy old man. A New Jersey native and American studies major, he plans on pursuing a legal career after graduating Notre Dame.

If you can’t find him at the movies, he can be reached for comment at pmckelve@nd.edu The views expressed in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Observer.

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The challenge of the murals Perhaps covering the murals, studying them elsewhere in reproductions, is the right thing. I cannot speak for Native Americans on this. I do know that when I brought a gentle Menominee friend of mine through the Main Building a few years ago, he couldn’t talk for a half hour. It was as if he had been assaulted.

And no, Italian Americans: Columbus is not the greatest glory of Italian civilization, by a long shot.

(Let’s learn more about Italian civilization).

But there is a danger. Little drapes and fig leaves, trying to hide or efface problems, is usually easy, intellectually dishonest and self-defeating: A curtain hiding embarrassment reveals the embarrassment, along with the failure to face it. That would not be Ted Hesburgh’s way. The murals present lots of problems; a university with courage and intellectual vision faces them head on.

Catholicism — and Notre Dame — has a deep, long, intricate relation to Native American history.

Notre Dame stands on Potawatomi land. The murals clearly depict the patronizing and colonizing attitude the University had toward Native Americans.

What the CSC thought of as loving Catholic concern in bringing salvation and civilization to the natives, is also clearly revealed — in the murals — as an alliance between church and state to dominate a people and a continent, never thinking to ask what a Native American could teach a (European) Catholic about civilization, about humanity, about the world and nature, about spirituality, about salvation. There is lots to learn here: Besides representing a failure of intellectual inquiry — the openness to learning from others — that must be at the heart

of any real university, it also represents a failure of self-awareness — of love — that undermines any faith or culture that is dominant, or that thinks it alone possesses truth, understanding, morality, civilization. The murals are a salutary, constant warning to the Notre Dame community, to intellectuals, to Catholics, to Americans, now and in every generation.

The murals are also a constant salutary reminder of Notre Dame’s responsibility to Native Americans, and of Notre Dame’s — and Catholicism’s — deep historic engagement with the Potawatomi. It is not all bad. Catholics were some of the fiercest denouncers of the injustices and abuse suffered by Native Americans. Fr. Stephen Badin deeply loved the Potawatomi he served, and they deeply loved him.

When the government decided to forcibly remove the Potawatomi to the far West, essentially destroying their lives, Fr. Louis DeSeille and Fr. Benjamin Petit fought the government as long as they could, as Fr. Badin had before them. When they lost, Fr. Petit refused to abandon the Potawatomi: He wept with them and marched with them. Many died, especially the children. Fr. Petit died too. He was 27. Fr. Edward Sorin had him buried in our log chapel, along with Fr. Badin, who had built it. There’s a challenge: This is what faith, love, service and commitment look like in the face of injustice and oppression.

And we’re going to put a little drape over all this, not think about any of it, not engage or learn from any of it?

A curtain can be easy and cheap, both intellectually and financially. What a university with real vision, with real character, must do is face the

challenge head on, to its core. It must foster the study of Native American culture, the civilization (and spirituality) we displaced, and Notre Dame’s — and Catholicism’s — own deep and revealing history of engagement with that culture. The encounter between Native American culture and European settlers is at the very heart of the entire American experience, of what we are, and the sins in it are the root of our sins now. Teach the history of that encounter. Found a Center for Native American Studies. Foster the study of Potawatomi culture and history. Create scholarships at Notre Dame for Native Americans. Sponsor regular lectures, exhibits, discussions. Fund research and excursions so that Notre Dame students can learn directly from Native Americans. Publish books on the Potawatomi, on the role of Catholicism in the Native American–European encounter. Notre Dame has just started on all this, the first small steps, with the excellent Native American Initiatives. (How many people at Notre Dame know it exists?) We need to do much more.

Perhaps, too, the University could commission artists, Native American and non, to ponder and respond to the murals in a rotating exhibit in the rotunda, as an ongoing, institutional, examination of conscience.

Then point to the murals and say: Yes, this is our history. It challenges us to do what we are now doing. Here is what we are doing.

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Alzheimer’s: a woman’s disease?

Ellie Dombrowski A Fresh(man) Perspective

Throughout history, one means of progressing medicine was making the decision that one’s assumptions and definitions of disease were no longer consistent with the scientific evidence of one’s time and no longer served an individual’s health care needs. This applies to the field of medicine today with Alzheimer’s disease, which now requires a change of diagnosis and treatment.

Between 2000 and 2014, there has been an 89 percent increase in deaths due to Alzheimer’s. Deaths from Alzheimer’s have nearly doubled during this 14-year period, while those from heart disease — the leading cause of death in the United States — have declined nearly 14 percent. Today, Alzheimer’s is considered the sixth-leading cause of death and the fifth-leading cause of death for those ages 65 and older in the United States.

However, it is not as easy to label an individual with Alzheimer’s disease as it would seem because, according to the CDC, a person could only have died from Alzheimer’s if the direct cause of death is from the Alzheimer’s disease itself. However, Alzheimer’s disease frequently causes complications, which cause death. Thus, those that die from other diseases (for example pneumonia or heart attack) are often not considered to have died due to Alzheimer’s. This is why Alzheimer’s disease is often referred to as a “blurred distinction between death with dementia and death from dementia.”

Women are at the epicenter of the Alzheimer’s epidemic. For example, “among those aged 71 and older, 16 percent of women have Alzheimer’s and other dementias, compared with 11 percent of men.” This can be seen by analyzing the biological, physiological and sociocultural aspects that cause sexual dimorphism in patients with Alzheimer’s

disease.

A biomarker is an indicator of a biological state in the human body. Clinicians use these biomarkers to diagnose the presence — or absence — of a disease to provide treatment and analyze of the risk. Hormones are factors that define an individual as female or male biologically. Both genetic and hormonal variations contribute to the aspects that underlie sexual dimorphism of the brain.

Furthermore, after menopause, women experience a brisk loss of estradiol and progesterone, two important sex hormones. Men also experience such abrupt declines in sex hormones, however, these declines are significantly more gradual.

Additionally, because testosterone can be metabolized into estrogen, men do not experience this severe loss that women do. This shows the possible link between sex and Alzheimer’s disease.

In addition to the various biological explanations for the sex differences of dementia, the effects of sociocultural aspects should also be noted. Gender refers to the psychosocial factors that impact our identity and change our susceptibility to disease (via health perception, social and work-related stressors, personal and societal perceptions and patient-doctor relationships). Such factors that relate to gender identity that may contribute to an increased risk of Alzheimer’s include the following: education, occupation, smoking, drinking, diet and exercise.

Low education and occupational history have been associated with a higher prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease. As seen throughout history, men hold a greater percentage of upper management positions. This reinforces the need for men to keep mentally challenging themselves. The Seattle Longitudinal Study discovered that individuals in their study born from 1914 to 1948, versus individuals born from 1886 to 1913, had a higher cognitive performance at 70 years old and slower rates of

cognitive decline. Furthermore, the difference between the younger and older cohorts was much greater for women than for men. This highlights the significance of gender-specific societal changes in an individual’s lifestyle over time by the impact that society has on cognitive aging.

Another aspect of culture that could explain why Alzheimer’s disease is more prevalent in women is cigarette smoking. Scientists have reported that cigarette smoking was indeed associated with a decreased risk of Alzheimer’s. Traditionally, men have a higher prevalence of smoking because it was more socially acceptable for men. Post 1920s and 1930s, more women have begun to smoke. However, women — generally — smoke less than men do.

Thus, this explains the hypothesis that smoking reduces one’s risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

Furthermore, although a sex-specific and genderspecific focus on Alzheimer’s disease research is still not common, the prevalence and incidence of Alzheimer’s disease vary by sex and gender. There are significant sex and gender-specific risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease, for example, hormones, occupation and smoking. Not taking note of these would impede treatments and research. Thus, it is important to study biological, historical, social and cultural trends to determine whether or not there will be an impact on the future prevalence and incidence of Alzheimer’s disease. Understanding these sex and gender differences will further help us to define personalized treatments and preventative interventions for Alzheimer’s disease.

Ellie Dombrowski is a freshman at Notre Dame majoring in Biochemistry. She is originally from Long Island, N.Y. and currently lives in Lewis Hall. She aspired to become a surgeon and to make a change in the world. She can be reached at edombrow@nd.edu The views expressed in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Observer.

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Make changes for the right reason. Consider what will benefit you the most. Look for opportunities that will encourage you to update and use your skills to fit a trend or job market. Spice up your resume and find a way to branch out. Expand your circle of friends, your knowledge and your experience. Your numbers are 4, 9, 22, 29, 30, 37, 46.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Take one step at a time. If you act on an assumption, you will have regrets. Getting along and seeing the positive in whatever situation you face will be liberating. Accept the inevitable, and work with what you’ve got.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Lay down some ground rules, and pick up the pace. Make a unique contribution to change someone’s life. Love, romance and personal improvements will bring you joy and set you on a path that will add to your security.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t trust what someone tells you; believe in yourself, what you know to be factual and what you are capable of doing. It’s OK to think big, but when it comes to putting your plans in motion, practicality should be enforced.

CANCER ( June 21-July 22): Use your imagination, surprise someone you love and focus on what’s important to you. Partnerships deserve more attention, and discussing your intentions and plans will bring you closer to the person you want to spend time with most.

LEO ( July 23-Aug. 22): You need a boost. It’s time to get moving and to get things done. Change begins when you’ve mastered your skills and you have the confidence to use them in your own special way. Don’t ponder over what to do next.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Take a critical look at yourself, your life and your prospects. Do something that will turn your dream into a reality. Look inward and strive for personal growth and obtaining the knowledge required to be successful.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Look beyond your situation and consider how best to maintain balance and peace in your life and still be able to achieve your goals. Reflect on what’s happened in the past, and avoid making the same mistakes.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Use your imagination and originality.

How you separate what you have to offer from others will invite opportunities with people who are open to doing things differently.

Don’t let emotions alter the choices you make.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Concentrate on personal goals and changes that will give you the edge in a competitive situation.

Understanding what others want and are willing to do will help you direct your energy wisely. Recognize who is truthful.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s OK to show emotions and to tell someone how you feel. Speak up; you will be able to bring about a change that will make your life better. Emotional anger will not help you find a solution.

AQUARIUS ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Keep busy and accomplish as much as possible. The less time you waste explaining yourself and the more time spent being productive, the better. Pull in the people you know can do a good job without supervision.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Stand up and help those less fortunate.

Being fair and nonjudgmental will lead to greater recognition and opportunities. A personal change will prepare you for an offer that is too good to turn down. Networking will pay off.

Birthday Baby: You are enthusiastic, adaptable and friendly. You are ambitious and studious.

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nHL | Lightning 5, blue jackets 1

All-Star weekend alters MVP talk Lucas Masin-Moyer Assistant Managing Editor

This past weekend, the NBA’s brightest stars were on full display at All-Star weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina. The All-Star Game itself displayed its trademark lack of any semblance of defense, and Oklahoma City guard Hamidou Diallo stole the show with his Vince Carter-inspired dunk over Shaquille O’Neal in the dunk contest. All in all, the weekend provided fans and journalists alike with the opportunity to ref lect on who might take home the league’s MVP award this year.

For the better part of the last few months and in the absence of truly stand-out seasons from MVPs of years past like Steph Curry and LeBron James, MVP talk has focused on two players: Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks and James Harden of the Houston Rockets. And with good reason.

Antetokounmpo seems to have finally reached his full potential as one of the most athletic, versatile players in the NBA, propelling the Bucks to the top of the Eastern Conference behind his 27.2 points, 12.7 rebounds and six assists per game, leading his team in all three categories.

Harden, on the other hand, has salvaged the Rockets’ early-season failures by going on one of the greatest scoring streaks in NBA history. He has scored more than 30 points in 31-consecutive games before the AllStar break, tying with Wilt Chamberlain for the secondlongest streak of its kind in NBA history.

While Antetokounmpo and Harden have hogged most of the discussion when it comes to MVP talk, there are two players who have received tacit support for the award that deserve greater consideration for the award — Paul George of the Oklahoma City Thunder and Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers.

Since arriving on what looked to be a one-year rental

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to OKC in the summer of 2017, George has slowly but surely worked his way into the Thunder organization, surprisingly deciding to re-sign with the team this summer.

Initially, it looked like George’s move to stay in Oklahoma City may have been a mistake. But as the season has progressed, his play has meshed perfectly with that of guard Russell Westbrook, and in the last few months the Thunder have rocketed all the way up to third in the Western Conference. The upward mobility has been powered mainly by George’s elite scoring abilities; the 28-year-old forward currently sits at second in the league in points per game with 28.7, behind only Harden. George has taken the pressure off Westbrook to do it all for the Thunder, and in the process has made the team much more competitive, finally emerging as the superstar he has been longexpected to become.

Despite being one of the most prominent voices in the NBA, Joel Embiid has quietly put together one of the best all-around seasons in the league this year. The 76ers’ center at sits sixth in points per game with 27.3, second in rebounds per game at 13.5, eighth in blocks per game at 1.9 and is second in the league in free throws made, again, behind only Harden.

Embiid’s lack of recognition for MVP may in part be attributed to the 76ers relative underperformance this year.

They currently sit in fifth place in the East, 6.5 games behind Antetokounmpo’s top-ranked Bucks. But with the recent addition of forward Tobias Harris, the Sixers look poised to make a run in the second half of the season with one of the most formidable starting lineups in the NBA. With this likely success will hopefully come more recognition for Embiid.

Contact Lucas Masin-Moyer at lmasinmo@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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Lightning top Columbus behind Kucherov’s scores Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio — When Nikita Kucherov is at his best, there is little opposing teams can do to stop the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Kucherov had two goals and three assists, and the Lightning beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-1 Monday night for their sixth straight win.

Kucherov now has 99 points to lead the league, with seven goals in the last five games.

“He’s a special player,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. “The night when you are not your best, the team is not at its best, a big-time player came to play and our goaltender held us in. We felt pretty fortunate to come away with two points tonight.”

Brayden Point scored twice and Steven Stamkos also had a goal for the Lightning, who are 8-1-2 in their last 11 games.

Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 40 shots and got his 26th win.

Lukas Sedlak scored and Joonas Korpisalo finished with 15 saves for the Blue Jackets, who had won four straight.

Columbus outshot the Lightning 19-6 in the first period, but Kucherov scored twice. He first beat Korpisalo top shelf off a lead pass from Yanni Gourde with 8:42 left, and then nabbed a turnover in the neutral zone and slipped it through the goalie’s five-hole with 5:36 remaining for his 29th of the season.

“When he’s wheeling like that he’s a real tough player to defend,” Point said of Kucherov. “Every time he’s on the ice he makes something happen.”

Stamkos made it 3-0 with just 28.1 seconds left in the second, 4 seconds into a 5-on-3 power play when he buried his 33rd off a pass from Kucherov.

Point made it 4-0 just 12 seconds into the third on a power play from just above the circles off a feed from Kucherov. That

extended Point’s point streak to five games.

Point then got his 35th only 34 seconds later just later off a pass from Kucherov.

“It’s really frustrating,” Columbus coach John Tortorella said. “I’m frustrated for the team. Our first period was probably our best period of hockey we’ve played all year long.

“You can’t lose your patience.

When you are down 2-0 after the way we played. You still gotta stay with it.”

Sedlak spoiled Vasilevskiy’s bid for a third consecutive shutout with 1:45 remaining.

Notes Tampa Bay has won six of its last seven games over the Blue Jackets. ... Columbus’ Ryan Murray left the game after the first period with an upperbody injury. ... Lightning D Victor Hedman also left after the first period with a lowerbody injury.

nhl | Flames 5, Coyotes 1

Flames beat Coyotes for second consecutive win Associated Press

CALGARY, Alberta — Balanced scoring has helped the Calgary Flames snap out of a funk.

Michael Frolik and Mikael Backlund each had a goal and an assist in the third period to help the Flames beat the Arizona Coyotes on Monday.

Mark Giordano also had a goal and an assist, and Derek Ryan and Austin Czarnik had the other goals for Calgary win its second straight to improve to 3-3-2 since the AllStar break. Czarnik and Ryan combined for a goal and three assists in Saturday’s 5-4 win over Pittsburgh, which ended a four-game skid (0-2-2).

“We’ve had some depth scoring come through, which is important,” Flames coach Bill Peters said.

Elias Lindholm assisted on both third-period goals, Rasmus Andersson also had two assists, and Mike Smith stopped 27 shots in his third straight start (2-0-1) for Calgary.

“I feel more like myself in the net and it’s paying off,” Smith said. “It’s a good time of year to be playing well.”

Conor Garland and Jordan Weal scored for the Coyotes.

Calvin Pickard finished with 29 saves in his third start for Arizona since being claimed off waivers from Philadelphia on Nov. 29.

Czarnik got his second goal in two games after being a healthy scratch for the previous nine, giving the Flames a 3-2 lead with 3:42 left in the second. Subbing in on Calgary’s third line again for the injured James Neal, Czarnik snared the puck on a broken play and scored from his knees with a low shot.

Frolik extended Calgary’s lead to 4-2 at 5:48 of the third period off Arizona’s defensivezone turnover. Lindholm skated the puck out from the boards and dished to the Czech, who chipped the puck by Pickard stick-side.

Backlund added an emptynetter with 1:12 left.

Ryan opened the scoring as he deflected Giordano’s slap shot up on Pickard at 1:34 of the first for his sixth of the season.

The fourth-line center also won seven of 10 faceoffs to get the puck to linemates Andrew Mangiapane and Garnet Hathaway.

“I thought they were really good again tonight. They’ve been good for a while now,” Giordano said. “It seems like every shift they’re in the offensive zone working the other team and grinding them.

They’re playing the right way, playing hard and getting rewarded.”

Garland beat Smith with a high backhand to tie it at 6:27 of the second.

Giordano put Calgary up 2-1 with 8:40 left in the middle period. Instead of shooting from his preferred spot near the faceoff circle to the goalie’s right, the Calgary captain went forehand to backhand to beat Pickard for his 13th.

Weal, acquired from Philadelphia in January, got his first goal for the Coyotes on the power play with 5:39 left in the period. He took a crossice feed from Alex Galchenyuk and whipped a wrist shot past Smith’s shoulder.

Up next Coyotes: At Edmonton on Tuesday night before closing out their western Canada swing Thursday night at Vancouver.

Flames: Host the New York Islanders on Wednesday night.

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Notre Dame sets multiple records in final home meet

By JOE EVERETT Sports Editor

In Notre Dame’s final home meet of the year, the Irish, running a smaller team, set several school records while simultaneously setting themselves up for success at this week’s ACC championships.

Saturday’s Alex Wilson Invitational was highlighted by the performance of the men’s distance-medley relay, which combined for a time of 9:26.10 to set a program record and nation-leading time this season. Just 0.12 seconds off the NCA A record, the Irish team of freshman Dylan Jacobs, senior Edward Cheatham, and sophomores Samuel Voelz and Yared Nuguse now owns the second-fastest distance-medley relay finish in NCA A history.

Irish head coach Matt Sparks commented on the nearrecord-setting performance and credited the overall preparation that the squad went through for this singular event on Saturday.

“Coach [Sean] Carlson really put a premium on getting ready for this time of year with those guys,” Sparks said. “If you look at the roster of those who competed, [specifically]

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shot from junior forward Cam Morrison, but the goaltending of Badger freshman Daniel Lebedeff held Notre Dame off the board. The Irish were not denied for long, however, as senior forward Dylan Malmquist cleaned up a rebound in front of the goal to equalize the game with a little over four minutes remaining in the period. Solid goaltending from junior Cale Morris kept the score level going into the first break.

In the second period, both teams exchanged scoring opportunities throughout, but it was the Badgers who grabbed the go-ahead goal after freshman forward Roman Ahcan found the back of the net, putting his team on the right side of a 2-1 lead.

In the final period, Notre Dame found two power-play opportunities, but found itself unable to convert.

Despite heavily pressuring the Badgers, the Irish struggled to find twine as Lebedeff’s stellar performance in goal kept the Irish from tying the game. Ahcan’s goal in the second went on to be the game-winner as the Irish were unable to find an

Dylan Jacobs and Sam Voelz — they competed, between the two of them — in one meet leading up to this event.

But the fitness was there, and so the emphasis of what they were preparing for all year was this meet, and they really came out strong, and Yared went from fourth to first in the last half mile of the race.

They’re getting competitive at the right time, and they’re [maximizing] their fitness at the right time.”

However, it wasn’t just on the track that the Irish broke records over the weekend, as junior thrower Logan Kusky broke his own school record in the men’s weight throw by setting a mark of 21.13 meters. Sparks said Kusky has shown steady improvement throughout the spring season, and is now close to qualif ying for the national championships — a goal the junior will aim to accomplish at this week’s ACC championships.

“Logan especially has been competitive on a conference level, but has now established himself to be competitive on a national stage,” Sparks said. “Now he’s ranked top 20 in the country, and so we’re hoping to put the finishing

touches on his first national qualif ying experience — being ranked in the top 16 after this upcoming weekend. So he needs to get a little bit better, but he took a big step this weekend and put himself in those conversations.”

The Irish weren’t finished with their record-setting performances in the field, however, as two throwers on the women’s team broke the school record. Freshman Rachel Tanczos first set the record with a throw of 20.12 meters, two rounds before junior Abbey Kapitan set the record herself with a mark of 20.13 meters — a complimentary performance that Sparks said was indicative of their teamwork.

“It’s neat to see them work together every day in practice, but also work together during the competition to push each other to continue to break that record,” Sparks said. “It was some fun for both of them, I think, to have each other to share that experience with.”

Sparks further elaborated on the sense of teamwork and camaraderie that his team showed at the Invitational, saying that energ y permeated throughout the building

on Saturday.

“Just the passion — and not only from the athletes that competed on that level, but the ability for their teammates to share those experiences with them,” Sparks said. “That’s obviously what makes it fun for the athletes, that they have to the opportunity to compete in front of people that care about them … people watching the event

and watching the mark go up on the board. The energ y that the rest of the team displayed over the competition was measured.”

This week, the Irish will compete at the ACC championships on Thursday through Saturday in Blacksburg, Virginia.

equalizer, losing 2-1.

Irish head coach Jeff Jackson credited a slow start, as well as improved play from the Badgers, as the difference-maker in the loss.

“You can’t fall behind early,” Jackson said. “You’re chasing the game the whole time.

I didn’t think we started off nearly as fast as we did against Michigan. [Wisconsin] played well. I thought they played much better than when we played them at Wisconsin.”

But on Saturday, Notre Dame was prepared, and the Irish had no trouble getting past Lebedeff via elevated play in special teams and shut-down goaltending from sophomore Dylan St. Cyr. The Badgers started off quickly again, hemming the Irish in their zone and putting several shots on net.

Wisconsin found the opening goal just 2:25 into the first, with senior forward Matthew Freytag putting a rebound past St. Cyr. The Irish responded by upping their physical play, as well as possession time, which earned them a power play just under nine minutes in.

This time, Notre Dame capitalized on its man advantage, and sophomore forward Colin Theisen drove home a cross-ice pass from junior

forward Cal Burke to net his eighth goal of the season. The Irish continued to be busy on the power play, finding two more looks on the job — including a two-man advantage — but found themselves unable to convert. Both teams found scoring opportunities toward the end of the period, but the score remained tied going into intermission.

In the middle frame, the Irish offense exploded for three-straight goals, including another on the power play.

Junior defenseman Andrew Peeke set up freshman forward Michael Graham for a redirection goal, to give the Irish their first lead of the series 2:30 into the period. The Irish struck again 10 minutes later when freshman forward Jake Pivonka redirected a pass from Cal Burke to give his team a 3-1 lead.

It continued to be all Irish in the second after a onetimer at the top of the right circle from Graham blistered off the post and in to give the freshman his fourth multigoal game of the season, and a 4-1 lead to the Irish. St. Cyr continued to stand tall for his team, preserving the threegoal advantage going into the second intermission.

To start the third, Wisconsin shook things up by pulling

Lebedeff in favor of junior goalie Jack Berry. Regardless, Notre Dame kept its foot on the gas, extending its lead with a third power-play goal late in the period. The score came from Burke at the mouth of the net who found the net off of a feed from Morrison.

With Burke’s goal — his 10th of the season — the Irish took a 5-1 lead.

But not to be denied, the Badgers cut the Irish lead back down just seconds later with a goal from sophomore forward Sean Dhooghe. Despite the conceded goal, the Irish shored up defensively, and behind some timely saves from St. Cyr, Notre Dame kept Wisconsin off the board for the rest of the night to power on to a 5-2 victory.

Jackson commented on the difference in effort in his team’s second game. “[We] were focused and engaged,” he said. “I thought [we] played a really good game against Michigan Tuesday night and [we] played a similar game tonight and we just have to find a way to do that every night.”

With the Big Ten tournament and NCA A tournament fast approaching, St. Cyr also praised the resilient play of the team.

“We do know that it’s

getting to the time of year where we do need to win games so, I think for us, it was important for us to get back to our game,” St. Cyr said. “We knew it was just the first goal.

Once we got that first goal for us, it really helped us calm us down and get back into it.”

Notre Dame now looks ahead to a series against Minnesota (13-14-4, 10-9-3), who sits two points ahead of them at second in the Big Ten standings. The Gophers are coming off of a twogame series against firstranked Ohio State, where they swept the Buckeyes in Columbus. Jackson commented on the challenges his team will face on Friday and Saturday in Minnesota.

“We’ll have our hands full,” Jackson said. “We had a couple tough game with them here, so we’ll probably have to be as good as we were that Saturday night [the last time we played] and just a little bit better.”

With just four games remaining in the regular season, the Irish will look to put on a strong showing against the Gophers. The weekend series begins at 9 p.m. in Minneapolis.

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Irish freshman Matthew Carmody (10) and sophomore Brendan Fraser (6) compete in the 3000-meter race at the Meyo Invitational.

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as Irish senior guard Arike Ogunbowale chased down a long outlet pass from junior guard Jackie Young, keeping the ball in bounds with a lefthanded behind-the-back pass to graduate student forward Brianna Turner, who finished with a layup to put Notre Dame up 12-6 with 5:42 left in the first quarter. The fastbreak, started by one of two blocks from Turner and one of five for the Irish on the night, set the tone for the rest of the matchup.

“We got some steals, we rebounded, we got the break going and I think when we can get going in the transition, we can score,” Irish head coach Muffet McGraw said.

The Wolfpack responded with two quick baskets to make the score 12-10, before Ogunbowale made an impact on the scoreboard, pouring in nine of Notre Dame’s final 11 points in the first. But despite Ogunbowale’s sharp shooting, the Irish were unable to separate themselves, and the rest of the quarter was evenly matched between the two teams, with the score 23-21 at the end of the frame.

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on the board coming out of the locker room.

Aldave completed her hat trick just over a minute into the second half, putting Notre Dame up 7-4, and Lynch did the same under a minute later. Lynch saw the open shot and took it from just outside the arc on an

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scoreless softball and striking out seven along the way.

On Saturday, the Irish faced another double-header day, this time against Minnesota and California, both of whom are currently unranked but received top-25 votes. The Irish were killed by early errors against Minnesota, as none of the seven runs the Golden Gophers scored in the first inning were earned. On the other side, Minnesota did not commit an error, and the pitching combination of sophomore Amber Fiser and junior Sydney Smith kept the Irish off the board in the team’s five-inning, 10-0 shutout w in.

For the second day in a row, the Irish competed hard after the early morning loss, but against California, Notre Dame let a w in a slip away, as its 6-2 lead headed into the final frame did not

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NC State freshman forward Elissa Cunane challenged Notre Dame’s bigs in the paint during the second quarter, consistently getting position on Turner, senior forward Jessica Shepard and Irish sophomore forward Mikayla Vaughn — causing Turner and Vaughn to rack up two fouls each by halftime.

“She’s a heck of a player,” McGraw said of Cunane.

“Definitely [an] all-rookie selection, and possibly Rookie of the Year. I mean, she just was really unstoppable in the second quarter.”

The Irish used an 11-2 scoring run in the middle of the second quarter to stay on top, though, and went into the locker room up 41-36 with both Ogunbowale and senior guard Marina Mabrey in double digits, recording 11 and 10 points, respectively. McGraw said Mabrey, who finished the night with 21 points and shot 3-for-5 from behind the arc, made some “big shots” for the Irish throughout the game.

The Wolfpack came out strong in the third quarter, using solid 3-point shooting to tie the score at 47 with 7:03 left in the frame, but the Irish reclaimed momentum from there. Notre Dame scored 12 unanswered points to push

the score to 59-47 and never looked back, pouring on the defensive pressure and pushing the tempo with fast breaks.

“The third quarter was just our defense, I think,” Shepard said. “You know, we know anytime that we can get stops on defense that means we can get out and run, and they put a big emphasis on rebounding at the half. We were giving them too many second-chance opportunities, and I think we did a better job in that third quarter of just rebounding, and then we [could] get out and run.”

Young credited Shepard’s strong outlet passes with the team’s ability to effectively get out in transition so often during the game.

“We were able to get stops and get boards, and Jess is a great outlet-er, so every time she gets it, she gives us a head start and we’re able to get going in transition and either get the layup or find Marina [or] Arike spotting up from the 3-point line,” Young said.

Notre Dame scored 34 points in the third, ending the quarter with a 75-59 lead over NC State that would only grow in the fourth.

Ogunbowale led the way to start the final quarter, scoring

five points before Young and Shepard added a pair of scores to give the Irish a 9-0 run and force a Wolfpack timeout.

Ogunbowale finished the night as Notre Dame’s leading scorer with 22 points to go along with eight rebounds and eight assists, putting her just 11 points behind Skylar Diggins-Smith at the top of the program’s all-time leading-scorer list.

The Irish held the Wolfpack to 13 points in the quarter, NC State’s lowest-scoring quarter of the game, and put up 20 of their own to seal the 23-point win. Notre Dame out-rebounded NC State 25-11 in the second half and 45-28 overall, something McGraw said she was happy to see because of the way it fed the team’s transition game.

“That’s our game. I was worried about the rebounds because they’re such a good rebounding team, so we thought if we could rebound we’d be able to get out in transition,” McGraw said.

She also noted that Notre Dame’s defense was much stronger than it had been in each of the team’s two ACC losses — the first to North Carolina on Jan. 27 on the road, and the second Feb. 7 at No. 14 Miami (FL).

“I think in both of our losses we didn’t defend, especially late in the game — when we needed to get a stop, we weren’t able to get one,” McGraw said. “We didn’t shoot the ball well, we didn’t rebound well so we couldn’t run so we didn’t score a lot of points, and when we did have an opportunity to score, we didn’t shoot the ball well.

So I think a lot of things went wrong.”

With No. 4 Louisville’s loss to Miami on Sunday, Notre Dame was in a three-way tie for first place in the ACC, with NC State half a game back before Monday’s game. The win now puts the Irish alone at the top, half a game ahead of both the Cardinals and the Hurricanes.

“It gave us a new, kind of fresh look at things,” McGraw said of her team realizing its opportunity to find itself back on top of the conference. “ … I think it definitely gave us kind of a little motivation.”

Notre Dame will return home Thursday to take on Duke in one of its final three regular season games of the year. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Purcell Pavilion.

assist from junior attacker Jessi Masinko.

Sophomore attacker Maddie Howe scored next, charging in from the top of the arc and shoveling the ball to the left as Widrick went right, bouncing it in for the 9-4 lead.

Lynch and Aldave went back-to-back again, giving Lynch her 15th point of the season, and she side-armed a pass from junior midfielder Savannah Buchanan from

the eight-meter. Freshman midfielder Hannah Dorney then lobbed a pass to Aldave, who, cutting through the arc, snuck one more goal in to give her team an 11-4 advantage.

Dorney and Ortega each followed with goals of their own to boost the Irish lead to 9, but finally, Liberty junior attacker Grace Fletcher was able to get a goal past Irish senior goalkeeper Samantha Giacolone, who made four

saves on the day, ending Notre Dame’s seven-goal run.

The Flames then turned the tables and went on a run of their own, after Masinko scored next to cap Notre Dame’s scoring for the day at 14 goals. But even as the Flames scored five unanswered goals, the Irish held on for the four-goal win at 14-10.

Aldave and Masinko each

finished the game with five points for the Irish — Aldave with four goals and an assist and Masinko with a goal and four assists. Aldave and Buchanan won eight and five draws, respectively, while the Irish caused a seasonhigh 19 turnovers, three of which were forced by senior defender Makenna Pearsall.

Next up for Notre Dame is a road matchup with Ohio State on Friday at 3 p.m.

hold. In the seventh, poor fielding and uncharacteristically w ild pitching allowed California to tie the game and ultimately earn a walkoff w in in the bottom of the extra, eighth inning.

Finally, the Irish bested the Ohio State Buckeyes 3-2 on Sunday to conclude their trip w ith a w in. Sophomore pitcher Morgan Ryan prov ided two scoreless innings to start the game, and Tidd and Holloway pitched well the rest of the way to hold the Buckeyes to six hits and t wo runs. Wester and shortstop Quinn Biggio each had t wo hits, and senior MK Bonamy had a RBI double in the first inning. The Irish led almost the entire game, and closed things up well w ith their v ictor y.

Notre Dame w ill be back in action this weekend, when they w ill play in the Diamond 9 Citrus Classic in Kissimmee, Fla. The first game w ill be against Fordham, and w ill start Saturday at noon.

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Irish senior infielder MK Bonamy stands in the batter’s box during Notre Dame’s 1-0 victory over Loyola on March 10 at Melissa Cook Stadium. Bonamy had one hit, a double, against Ohio State this past Sunday.

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ND WOMEN’S LACROSSE | ND 14, Liberty 10

ND tops Liberty, improves to 3-0 Observer Sports Staff

The No. 20 Irish women’s lacrosse team continued its hot start Sunday, hitting the road to take down Liberty and improve to 3-0. It was senior attacker Samantha Lynch and sophomore midfielder Andie Aldave who paved the way for the Notre Dame victory offensively, picking up four goals each.

Senior attacker Nikki Ortega struck first. She came in close from the right side and quickly snuck a goal behind Liberty senior goalkeeper Katherine Widrick from just outside the eight-meter.

Lynch tallied her second goal of the season next, just over 30 seconds later, on an assist from Aldave, and freshman attacker Mollie Carr quickly followed suit with a goal of her own. She cut in from the left side cruising past a number of Flames defenders before stopping a few yards short of the arc and sending

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a shot to the back of the net, handing Notre Dame the 3-0 lead just 4:23 into play.

The Flames (2-1) quickly staged a comeback, as they scored next on an unassisted goal by junior midfielder Carly W hite. After a quick goal by Notre Dame’s Aldave, Liberty continued its run, scoring twice more to make the score 4-3.

Notre Dame’s next goal was one of its most impressive of the game, as Carr made a quick move from the top of the arc and passed the ball over to Lynch, who immediately turned and fired over Widrick for her second goal of the game to put the Irish up 5-3. Liberty answered right back, but Aldave put the Irish back up by two goals, following Ly nch w ith a fast goal going into halftime.

The Irish turned on the heat coming out of the break, putting the first seven goals see W LAX PAGE 11

By COURTNEY BECKER Editor-in-Chief

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Irish senior guard Arike Ogunbowale drives in against Florida State during ND’s 97-70 victory on Feb. 10 in Purcell Pavilion.

No. 5 Notre Dame notched a season-high 37 fast-break points and used a dominant offensive showing in the third quarter to top No. 9 North Carolina State 9572 and launch itself back to the top of the ACC standings Monday night.

The win in Reynolds Coliseum — as NC State recognized former head coach Kay Yow with its “Play4Kay” pink game — was Notre Dame’s seventh over a topranked team this season, a league-best, and its third top-10 victory. In a twist similar to the one Notre Dame (24-3, 11-2 ACC) experienced last season, the Wolfpack (22-3, 9-3) have four players out with season-ending ACL tears this year.

The Irish established their transition game early, see W BBALL PAGE 11

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Notre Dame battles to split Squad wins twice in tough games series against Wisconsin

By DOMINIC GIBSON

Oberver Sports Staff

Sports Writer

No. 15 Notre Dame hosted and split its series with Wisconsin this past weekend in what was another major Big Ten matchup. The back-toback games were characterized by an Irish team which is struggling to find consistency as the race for the postseason heats up.

After dropping Friday’s contest 1-2 to the Badgers and winning Saturday’s 5-2, the Irish (16-11-3, 9-9-2 Big Ten) now sit in third place, just two points below second-ranked Minnesota but only one point above fourth-ranked Michigan.

On Friday, Wisconsin (1015-5, 6-9-5) jumped on the Irish early, with sophomore forward Linus Weissbach finding the back of the net on a power play just 5:31 into the game. The Irish nearly tallied one of their own just five minutes later behind a

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Sophomore forward Colin Theisen follows the puck during ND’s 5-2 win over Michigan on Feb. 12. Theisen had one goal Saturday.

Notre Dame had a long weekend competing in the St. Pete Clear water Elite Inv itational in Clear water, Florida. The team played six games in all and recorded t wo w ins on the weekend, w ith each of the matchups being against teams either ranked or receiv ing votes in the top-25 poll — including three teams in the top 20.

Despite emerging v ictorious only t w ice, Notre Dame had a qualit y w in over No. 20 Ok lahoma State.

A week after taking dow n the then thirdranked Washington Huskies, the Irish had a tougher time against the No. 3 Ok lahoma Sooners. Notre Dame was dow n just 3-2 after four innings, but gave up three runs in the fifth to let the Sooners take a 6-2 lead. The blast from senior outfielder Raegan Rogers put the Irish upset attempt to bed, as those would be the last runs scored in the game.

The squad then had a quick turnaround for a 10 a.m. matchup the next morning w ith No. 6 Tennessee.

Notre Dame freshman pitcher Pay ton Tidd was back on the mound just hours after a 3.2 inning appearance against Ok lahoma, and the Volunteers were able to chase her off after 1.2 innings and four runs allowed.

The Irish managed just t wo hits and were shutout 8-0 in what was ultimately just a five-inning game.

But the Irish had a strong response to the morning’s adversit y in their afternoon date w ith Ok lahoma State.

The Notre Dame offense attacked the Cowgirls w ith a balanced performance — six different players knocked in runs, including a t wofor-four performance from senior outfielder A li Wester out of the leadoff spot.

Sophomore pitcher A lex is Holloway went the distance, pitching seven innings of see SOFTBALL PAGE 11