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Students discuss stereotyping on campus Athletes and non-athletes analyze misconceptions regarding the relationship between race and sports

By MARY STEURER News Editor

Members of the Notre Dame community came together to discuss the stereotyping of African-American students in a panel discussion titled “W hat Sport Do You Play? ” in Visitation Hall.

A part of Walk the Walk Week, the event was sponsored by student government, the Alliance for Catholic Education and several other campus organizations.

Panelists included senior Trebor Goodall, president of the Notre Dame Black Student Association and Notre Dame football players senior Khalid Kareem and junior Jalen Elliott.

The panel was moderated by Eric Love, director of staff diversity and inclusion.

Love began the discussion by asking the panelists to think of a moment when others have made assumptions about them.

Goodall recalled the first time he met his freshman year roommate.

“His parents asked me, ‘Just curious, are you on scholarship or are you a student athlete here? ’ And I was like, ‘No, I just came here to do school,’” he said.

Kareem said he had a similar experience when he was approached by a stranger in see PANEL PAGE 4

University to host 30th annual film festival

By CATE VON DOHLEN News Writer

W hen Ted Mandell, film professor, founder and faculty organizer of the Notre Dame Film Festival, took a film production at the University, there was no means for showing student films to the larger Notre Dame community.

“You would show your film to your professor and to your parents at graduation weekend, and that was our chance to show our films to someone other than our classmates,” Mandell said.

W hen Mandell returned to Notre Dame after graduate school, he wanted to create an opportunity for students to showcase their work. The main aim of the event is to put student work in the spotlight and reward them for their hard work.

Mandell said the festival is a way to help each student understand that they have

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the potential to create great art, despite their young age.

“You’re not a student filmmaker anymore; you’re an artist,” he said.

The first film festival was held in the basement of what is now McKenna Hall and there were 50 to 75 people there, Mandell said.

“I think we just put everything that anyone had ever [filmed] into the first one,” he said.

The festival was put on in a couple different venues over the years until 2004 when the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center was built. Now, the festival is two hours long and curation for the festival is more selective. Initially, only Mandell helped to organize the event, but now outreach specialist Stacey Stewart assists as well.

As the event has grown, so has its outreach, both on campus and across the see FILM PAGE 3

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Several campus organizations sponsored a panel discussion titled “What Sport Do You Play?” Eric Love moderated the discussion, which included Notre Dame football players Khalid Kareem and Jalen Elliott.

Saint Mary’s plans events for siblings of students

By CALLIE PATRICK News Writer

Saint Mary’s Little Siblings Weekend is a yearly tradition for Belles to share their college experience with their younger brothers and sisters. The committee for the weekend has been hard at work planning this year’s event.

Committee members for

the event, junior Chloe Jacobs and senior Madeline Flynn, are planning to make sure the events are fun for a wide spectrum of ages.

“W hen I went to little siblings my freshman year, my little siblings came, but all the activities were for very little kids, and my little siblings weren’t really having a great time,” Jacobs said. “So I wanted to come up with a

theme where we can have activities where little kids can enjoy it, but also older kids can enjoy.”

This year’s theme is Lil’ Sibs Around the World.

“I feel like in general with all the globalization and everything, international stuff is just so important,” Jacobs said.

“Teaching see SIBLINGS PAGE 4

Lewis Hall embraces community, events

By CHRISTOPHER PARKER News Writer

W hen asked about their first memory of their dorm, freshmen Katie Lane and Emma Gran both answered resoundingly, “everyone was dressed in chicken suits.” Welcome to Lewis Hall.

Built in 1965 through a

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donation by Julia Lewis in honor of her husband Frank, Lewis is the oldest women’s hall that has only ever housed women.

Senior Alexandra O’Connor, a resident assistant (RA) in Lewis, said that the dorm was originally built to house Sisters of the Holy Cross seeking degrees.

The dorm was subsequently

opened up to graduate laywomen, and eventually the first women admitted to Notre Dame called Lewis home in 1972.

“The graduate women lived on the top two f loors, and the nuns continued to live on the bottom two f loors. So it was like half

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SMC chemistry society promotes scholarship

By MARIROSE OSBORNE News Writer

The Saint Mar y’s College Affiliates of the American Chemical Societ y (SMAACS) has steadily become more involved w ith other STEM clubs, as well as w ith the greater Saint Mar y’s communit y over the years.

“We have more social events in the spring,” club adv isor and assistant chemistr y professor Dr. Jennifer Fishov itz said. “We partner up w ith other clubs and outside organizations in order to create a larger communit y of STEM majors.”

Building communit y among STEM majors at Saint Mar y’s has become a major goal of SMAACS. “We’re tr y ing to make our

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nation. Several films in the past have made it into larger festivals around the countr y, Mandell said. “[The festival] is a launching pad for where [the students] go in their careers. These students are going to go on and work for Dreamworks, Netf lix, Lionsgate and more. That’s where our alumni go,”

mark, and to create a real presence for women in a t y pically male env ironment,” senior club secretar y A nna Shadid said.

Smaller events for this semester involve engaging local schools and bringing in new STEM majors, Shadid said.

“We’re going to give a prize at the Marian High School science fair and we’ll have a station at the Northpoint Elementar y science fair as well,” she said.

SMAACS president and senior chemistr y and chemical engineering major Ky ra Dvorak said that one of her favorite club activ ities is helping kids get interested in science.

“A lot of kids think they can’t do science. They see it

as too complicated and difficult,” Dvorak said. “We want to encourage them to pursue science and show them a way to get involved and interested.”

One of the SMAACS’ major events for the spring semester is its partnership w ith the Me To We organization.

It partners w ith the Societ y of Women Engineers (SW E) and Campus Ministr y at Saint Mar y’s to sell jewelr y made by women in developing countries.

“Me To We works w ith craftswomen in developing countries,” senior Heather DiLallo said. “They partner w ith colleges and institutions to raise awareness while allow ing the women to have a w ider market in which to sell their products.

The money goes back to the communities, and we’ve chosen to support education for women in Tanzania.”

There are t wo reasons SMAACS has chosen to support the women of Tanzania, DiLallo said.

“One of our chemistr y majors who graduated [in 2016], Natalie Hartman, went to Tanzania and did research there,” DiLallo said. “And as we are a women’s college, we want to put an emphasis on education for women.”

Several other club officers agreed w ith DiLallo, and discussed their ow n unique experience as a STEM major at a women ’s college.

“Nowhere else has the focus on female scientists that Saint Mar y’s does,” Dvorak said. “It breaks up the

stereot y pe that chemistr y is a man’s field and takes away the stigma that many women face, which can kill their motivation to be a scientist.”

Junior and club historian Maggie Benjamin agrees.

“We also have such a communit y here,” Benjamin said. “You stay w ith the same communit y throughout your four years and it gets to the point that you know ever yone. Underclasswomen aren’t afraid to ask questions, and it’s really nice to have upperclasswomen who understand what they’re going through. It’s harder to have that kind of interaction at a bigger school.”

Mandell said.

Each FTT student completes two or three films a semester, so in any given year, there are around 150 projects. This year there are 11 short films in the festival — all produced last spring semester or the prev ious fall semester. Mandell has the final say of which films are included, but he also talks to other facult y members who teach production classes.

“If we have enough space, we tr y to get as many in

there. We’ve always had films that could have been show n, but we just run out of time,” he said. “Just like any film festival, you have to choose.”

The settings for the films, both fiction films and documentaries, range from Notre Dame’s campus to the greater South Bend area to other states. There is a filmmaking endow ment that allows students to travel for production and helps to pay for some production costs for

narrative films. Without the endow ment, Mandell said, students wouldn’t be able to make these films.

From suspense films to comedies to serious documentaries, the content matter of this year’s festival varies w idely.

Senior Beatt y Smith, who partnered w ith senior Grace Tour v ille to produce their entr y “Drift,” explained the plot of their film.

[Editor’s note: Grace Tour v ille is a former photographer for The Obser ver].

“It’s about a girl who runs out of gas on a desolate countr y road and she seeks help in a nearby farmhouse,” Smith said. “W hen she gets there, it’s seemingly abandoned, but it looks as if it’s just been left moments ago.

It’s a strange film — I w ill say that.

“I think our goal for the film was to create tension in the audience.”

Both Smith and Mandell said the audience’s reactions to the various films are essential to the film festival.

“You’re sitting in the theater, and your whole point in making the film is to move someone emotionally. You want them to laugh, cr y, be scared, learn something and to be in that space and watch it occur,” Mandell said. “It’s ver y ner ve racking, but that part of filmmaking you can’t get in class.”

Senior Zach Lawson’s film “Shelter Me” is meant to incite a different response from the audience.

Lawson’s film follows

one photographer, Nanette Martin, who professionally photographs shelter animals and homeless animals across the countr y, he said.

“She’s basically dedicated her life to doing this,” Lawson said. “W hat she’s doing is really compelling, and the fact that someone is w illing to risk that much to help helpless animals is important.”

A ll are inv ited to attend the film festival, discuss their thoughts on the films and place their vote for the Audience Choice Award. A fter each show ing, the audience can vote for their favorite film v ia text message. The w inner, or w inners, w ill be presented w ith the Audience Choice Award after the final showing Sunday.

“Most of the time when you’re making a film in class it’s like when you’re w riting a paper; usually the people that are watching it are just your classmates,” Mandell said.

“The feedback is completely different from someone watching your film in the mov ie theater.”

The 30th A nnual Student Film Festival commences Friday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. There are also Saturday and Sunday show ings at 3 and 7 p.m.

Tickets are $7 for public, $ 6 for facult y, staff and seniors and $4 for students. bigger school.”

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people, and kids especially, about other cultures and activ ities they do in a fun way is so important.”

The committee has been organizing fun events and activ ities that are meant to pertain to a large age and cultural range.

“It’s such a broad categor y we can collaborate w ith so many different kinds of people that you didn’t even

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convent, half apartment building,” she said.

Lew is’ court yard overlooking the lake was a place of quiet ref lection for the nuns liv ing there.

This focus on faith remains strong in Lew is Hall.

Rector Rachelle Simon said the dorm has a unique tradition of Lucenarium, a candlelit evening prayer for ref lecting on the Gospel.

Dorm v ice president and junior A manda Bono said Lew is is also unique because its size has no adverse impact on the sense of communit y.

“Even though we are a super big girls’ dorm, we’re close-knit like a small dorm would be. We’re really good at being welcoming and sharing life together,” she said.

Assistant rector (AR) Megan Ball echoed this point, say ing that Lew is’ larger size does not discourage, but rather builds communit y.

“Lew is is like liv ing in a big cit y — lots of people doing lots of different things. There’s something

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public.

“This guy — I don’t believe it — he walks up to me and he says, ‘Me and my manager were tr y ing to figure out what sport you play. W here are you at school? ’” he said. “I was like, ‘I play football, I go to Notre Dame, but what made you think I play sports? ’” Elliott said these judgements extend into the classroom, where his peers often underestimate student-athletes’ academic abilit y.

“I definitely think that

know ex isted,” Jacobs said.

To help represent many different cultures, they have enlisted the help of clubs such as the French club, Spanish club, German club and the Irish dance team.

The different countries w ill have tables run by committee and club members.

Each w ill have an activ it y and a food item pertaining to their countr y.

“Essentially what the little sibs w ill be able to do is they can go around w ith these passports we’re going to

give them and they can get stamps in different countries,” Fly nn said.

“For France we’re doing canvases and there’s going to be croissants,” Jacobs said. “For England, one of the things we’re doing is the kids are going to w rite a letter to the queen or the royal family.”

Before the fair, the committee has a cozy opening night planned.

“For Friday, we bought the rights to Coco, so yeah, we’ll show that mov ie and

Sodexo is catering popcorn and candy, that’s going to be the opening night activ it y,” Jacobs said.

Follow ing the international fair in A ngela Athletic and Wellness Complex, there w ill be a full buffet in the center. The Irish dance team is also donating time that night not just to dancing at the event, but to teaching the kids how to dance.

“There’s kind of like t wo parts — there’s the international fair and

after wards we’re hav ing a dance part where we’re going to have the Irish dance team come in and teach how to dance,” Jacobs said.

On Sunday, there is a farewell tea part y in the making and there w ill be meal passes during the weekend for the kids.

Lil’ Sibs around the World w ill take place from March 1 to March 3.

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for ever yone to do,” Ball said. “We can foster a lot of indiv idual interests while still being part of a big communit y.”

Junior and hall president Marissa Brennan said that Lew is is a dorm steeped in fun student traditions, from its week-long spirit celebration to the famous Lew is House of Pancakes, know n colloquially as LHOP. “We have Crush Week ever y year, which is a week of celebrating Lew is women.

We go around serenading all of our dates for a dance on Saturday,” she said.

“For LHOP, ever y f loor makes a different breakfast food, and all the proceeds go to a local food bank. That’s something that everyone’s involved it. It’s a great way to bond.”

This year, LHOP raised $5,500 in one night for charity. Over 1,100 people came through the building. In fact, because of this year’s massive success, Brennan discussed another idea in the works.

“On April 12, there will be an LHOP 2.0 with desserts instead: cookies, brownies, much, much more. We’re hoping to get dorms more engaged,” she said.

For O’Connor, the best part of being a member of hall staff is community.

“Because we are one of the largest, there’s 8 RAs and two ARs and a rector. It can seem intimidating, but the friendship and the fellowship we develop

within the staff is so genuine and fun,” O’Connor said. “It’s translated very well to the residents of the building.”

The mascot that made such an impact on those two freshmen was unofficially started by a student in the 1980s who

called all of her Lewis friends “chickens.”

The name stuck, and over 30 years later, the ladies of Lew is are still proud to be called chicks.

you do hear those — ‘Oh the cur ve’s going to be great, I heard the cur ve is good,’ and it’s kind of like, ‘W hy is the cur ve going to be good? ’” he said.

“But I think it gives us a certain drive to kind of go and seek the help we have.”

Elliott does not define himself as a football player, but rather as someone who strives for success in all areas of his life, he added.

“Yes, it is because of football that I got here, but now that I’m here, I want to excel in ever y thing I do,” he said.

“And so, once I got here, it was important to me to work as hard as possible — not just in football, but academically

as well.”

Kareem called on the Notre Dame communit y to be more empathetic towards student-athletes and mindful of the pressures their work puts on them.

“At times it feels like the student body kind of goes against you, but when we’re good, ever ybody’s crazy — just keep it consistent,” he said.

A Gates Millennium scholar and a student manager for the Notre Dame athletics department, Goodall said he actively works to combat assumptions made about African-American students.

“Just me constantly being involved on campus and

letting them know that black men are more than just what we can contribute physically, I think I’ve been doing a great job at that,” he said.

Elliott said that encouraging conversation bet ween student-athletes and nonathletes w ill help combat these stereot y pes.

“I think the biggest thing on just on both sides is just being there to talk to one another,” Elliot said. “ … Just because you never know if someone really might want to get to know you as a person.”

Being inclusive towards students-athletes is another way to bridge the div ide, Goodall said.

“One of the things that I’ve tried to stay consistent in doing these four years is not assuming that the athletes don’t have time to come to stuff,” he said. “… Don’t be afraid to inv ite them to things, don’t be afraid to talk to them.”

Goodall also noted that the stereot y pe of sports is just surface-level. “[There’s] more to us than just football,” Goodall said.

“We have so much more to offer besides that if you take the time to get to know us,” Kareem echoed.

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The benefits of increased enrollment Charlotte Edmonds Associate Sports Editor

As the anxiety of study abroad decisions set in for the sophomore class this past weekend, I was reminded of the crippling stress I experienced my senior year of high school, awaiting various packages that would determine my future.

College admissions: a hell I wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemy. Perhaps, I simply didn’t handle the uncertainty well, but having talked to countless high school and college classmates, it seemed as though the end of our high school years — a time meant to be spent checking off our bucket lists and making countless memories — was too often spent poring over college admissions statistics and focusing on packing in as many impressive accomplishments as possible into a few tabs on the Common App. To make a long story short, obviously things worked out. However, having completed three semesters here at Notre Dame and being bombarded with countless reminders of the school’s mission to be a “force for good in the world,” I’m often left wondering if that mission could extend well before students even enroll here.

Notre Dame has the unique opportunity, as an institution deeply rooted in its identity as both an elite research and Catholic voice in education, to reject higher education’s trend of rising tuition and plummeting acceptance rates.

Every year over 15,000 students receive small letters in the mail informing them that they will not be admitted to Notre Dame and for many, crushing their dreams in the process. Obviously, selectivity is important to ensuring the quality and commitment of the admitted students and the exclusivity of the application process effectively helps create and intimate campus community.

However, of those thousands of rejected students, many of them are extremely qualified and would make great contributions to the Notre Dame community.

Increasing the number of accepted students by even 1,000 would maintain the acceptance rate in the low 20s. More importantly though, if Notre Dame believes in the value and success of their mission in educating a generation of holistic leaders, shouldn’t acceptance rates fall secondary to the opportunity to maximize that effect?

Although increasing the undergraduate acceptance rate would likely require the construction of more dorms and potentially affect the intimacy of the campus experience, it would solve several logistical issues and enhance the community and environment on campus.

Like many schools of similar prestige, Notre Dame finds itself at the center of a debate between tradition and progress. Although not fundamentally antithetical to each other, the honoring of tradition through preferential treatment to legacy students can serve as an obstacle to the mission to diversify the school community when the alumni pool is largely homogenous. This is not to suggest that tradition isn’t valuable. Tradition is one of the defining characteristics and greatest draws to Notre Dame. It’s one of the reasons Notre Dame alumni are considered some of the best in the country and in the spirit of full disclosure, I am a beneficiary of this preferential selection, being a legacy student myself. However, expanding the current class size would allow more room to still educate a similar number of legacy students while also increasing the number of minorities or students of marginalized groups. While we’re on the topic, this could increase the number of legacy admissions even if it resulting in a lower acceptance rate for legacy students.

There’s no denying that despite the administration’s efforts, diversity remains an issue here on campus. And I don’t just mean racial diversity, although that is an issue. According to a 2017 New York Times article, Notre Dame ranked 13th in terms of schools with the largest enrollment disparity between students from the top one percent and students from the bottom 60 percent. Additionally, Notre Dame continues to try to attract students from a broad range of backgrounds but still struggles to shed its image as a primarily white, upper-class, Catholic community.

Finally, the exclusivity of the Mendoza College of Business with required direct admittance and transfer applications is largely due to concerns over maintaining other majors enrollment numbers. A larger student body would better enable those smaller majors to thrive without the same competition.

The rate at which campus is expanding in term of buildings and the rising pressure to accommodate both tradition and diversity make the present the perfect time to increase enrollment. If we as a community believe in the integrity of the school’s mission and the quality of education each member receives and contributes to while acknowledging the large number of qualified students that never have the chance to experience Notre Dame, then we won’t be threatened by the murmurs of competition and exclusivity on the basis of prestige.

Contact Charlotte Edmonds at cedmond3@nd.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Party like it’s 1922 To all members of the tri-campus communit y, The Notre Dame Sophomore Class Council w ill be hosting its annual Great Gatsby dance on Saturday, Jan. 26 from 10 p.m. - 1 a.m. in the Dahnke Ballroom of the Duncan Student Center.

We are proud to announce that in addition to prov iding those in attendance w ith a DJ, free food and a lively atmosphere, we have done what prev ious class councils have thought impossible.

Not only w ill those in attendance have the wonderful opportunit y to feast on cocktail shrimp, Chickfil-A, vegetable platters, chocolate strawberries and plent y of other snacks; not only w ill they be graced w ith the presence of the one and the only DJ DuLac; not only w ill students be able to enjoy a great, 1920s-themed time w ith their peers in the swank y Dahnke Ballroom.

But instead, Fr. Pete McCormick, director of Campus Ministr y at Notre Dame, has agreed to bartend during the event! Fr. Pete w ill be

hand-making ser v ing non-alcoholic “mocktails,” which w ill be made-toorder throughout the night.

A ll students who attend the Universit y of Notre Dame, Saint Mar y’s College and Holy Cross College are inv ited. Students w ill be required to show a valid Notre Dame, Saint Mar y’s or Holy Cross ID. The event is free to attend. Doors close at 10 :30 p.m. sharp.

For additional information about the dance, please contact Sophomore Class president Samuel Cannova scannova@nd.edu, special projects committee co-chair, Michael Dunn mdunn8 @nd.edu or the other special projects committee co-chair, Michael Dugan mdugan1@nd.edu [Editor’s Note: Michael Dugan ser ves as Systems Administrator for The Obser ver].

We look for ward to seeing you there !

Michael Dunn Sophomore Class Council, special projects committee co-chair Jan. 24

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Mural decision demonstrates power of advocacy On Monday, Notre Dame kicked off its fourthannual “Walk the Walk” week. According to the University, this week, starting the night before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is meant to make members of the Notre Dame community “consider how we — both individually and collectively — might take an active role in making Notre Dame even more welcoming and inclusive.”

One of the ways in which Notre Dame students have been taking this active role in shaping the world has been through consistent advocacy over the decades, from marches on Main Building in the 1960s to protest the Vietnam War to students this past weekend who attended the Women’s March and the March for Life in Washington.

But one call to action deserves special recognition this week. For more than 20 years, groups of motivated students have challenged the University’s decision to continue displaying Luis Gregori’s murals of Christopher Columbus in the Main Building.

Their work has finally paid off. On Sunday, University President Fr. John Jenkins announced that the murals would be covered up by “woven material consistent with the decor of the space.” In addition to covering up the murals, the University will “create a permanent display for high-quality, high-resolution images of the murals in a campus setting to be determined,” he said.

The Observer Editorial Board understands that this course of action is, by nature, controversial.

Such is the nature of activism, and the proposed solution has left some — on both sides of the political aisle — feeling discontent. Nevertheless, we applaud the work of the generations of Notre Dame students who have taken to heart the impetus to build community through action; to “Walk the Walk.”

Gregori’s murals, painted in the late 1880s on the walls of the Main Building, have long offended members of the Notre Dame community, especially those with Native American heritage, as Gregori depicts the Native Americans in the paintings in a historically inaccurate manner that takes away from the human dignity of Native American peoples. As a result, student groups have been advocating for the removal of the murals since as early as 1995.

According to an Oct. 31 article published that year in The Observer, members of the Native American Student Association at Notre Dame (NASA-ND) called on the University to remove the murals “because they show Native Americans as members of a culture inferior to that of Western Europeans.” This advocacy continued throughout the fall of 1995 and into the spring of 1996, when the University decided to add a pamphlet that placed the paintings in their historical context, addressed the problematic names of some of the murals and promised to exhibit more diverse artwork on campus.

However, many members of NASA-ND and other

members of our community felt this to be an incomplete measure and have continued to push for the removal of these murals ever since. On Nov. 29, 2017, NASA-ND held a “Native American Representation Town Hall,” and in March 2018 the student senate passed a resolution urging the administration to remove the murals. Most recently, in December 2017, members of the Michiana chapter of the Rising Tide activism — not associated with the University in any way — unfurled a banner in Hesburgh Library, proclaiming, “This is Potawatomi land! F--- the KKKolumbus murals.”

These students and activists have displayed a consistent commitment to ensuring Native Americans have a stake in telling their own story and aren’t defined by narratives outside of their control. The legacy of their activism truly embodies Dr. King’s assertion that, “The time is always ripe to do right.”

We thank these groups for their inspiring example — recent movements at Notre Dame to advocate for topics ranging from defending Title IX to implementing a campus-wide internet filter have shown that students of many different beliefs are not afraid to stand up for their values. And, as the Columbus decision proves, a commitment to dialogue and advocacy does have tangible results.

Furthermore, we call on the University to make sure to authentically listen to its students, the ones who carry in their hearts the University’s mission of promoting human dignity. Only then will we ensure that the years of advocacy and hard work do not go to waste.

Chaperones caused Covington Catholic chaos Gary J. Caruso Capitol Comments

Certainly the spectacle following the annual March for Life on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial was an unparalleled learning experience for the Covington Catholic High School students from Kentucky. Most assuredly the vitriolic slurs and insults bellowed by the Black Hebrew Israelite protestors were nothing like any their chaperones had ever heard hurled within their community south of Cincinnati. But undeniably, the adult chaperones failed to control their students by keeping them at the top of the first flight of stairs or moving them further away.

More importantly, the teacher chaperone who permitted the students to excite themselves by chanting their own cheers did not act like a teacher, adult or chaperone.

To be clear, the Covington Catholic students are minors. School administrators, and by extension the traveling on-site chaperones are delegated a proxy from the diocese to supervise those children. That proxy demands that chaperones must always stand up to be the best of who we are — as Catholics who profess to respect the dignity of the disrespectful and as Americans who protect the rights of even the despicable.

On Sunday, the Covington Catholic Diocese announced that it has commissioned a third party to investigate the matter. Creating a timeline with audio will be an easy task. The investigators will be hard pressed to counter the optics of 16-year-old Nick Sandmann wearing a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat, blocking the path while other students opened a lane and sneering nose-tonose across from American Indian elder Nathan Phillips.

When one wears a MAGA hat, one announces ownership of the owner, including just four days prior the nasty, insulting tweets using “Pocahontas” as a slur, or a recording bragging how he grabbed women, paying hush money to silence extramarital affairs with “models” and embracing a checkered history of “embellishing” the truth. The MAGA administration offers little that is consistent with the Church’s social mission other than the lip service of

being anti-abortion.

Easily the investigation will review the plethora of recordings available on social media. This columnist has watched nearly five hours of troubling video from more than a dozen sources. AOL News collated several videos together for easy reference where the most instructive seems to come from the Washington Post, entitled, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”

At 1:20, the Black Hebrew Israelites leader calls a woman “a blue-eyed demon.” Her friend quickly steps between the two and pushes the female away. That interceptive movement away from conflict is exactly what Covington Catholic adults should have done with their students rather than allow at 1:54, the bare-chested student to lead reprisal chants before about 40 bystanders at the base of the steps. A prior sequence at 1:24 shows the students initially walking away while the Israelite leader calls them “crackers.”

At 3:09, other students allowed Phillips a path while only Sandmann stood his ground and sneered at Phillips.

At 3:20, the video angle clearly shows the chanting students who had given Phillips a path now located behind and off to the left of Sandmann’s standoff. At 4:00, parent chaperone Jim Wilson explains during his CBS interview that he could only influence eight to 10 boys who knew him to move away from the Black Hebrew Israelites. Yet none of the more than five hours reviewed ever shows any adult at the forefront of the activities to stop the barechested Tarzan cheerleader who controlled the students’ attention. The adults simply needed to wave their arms above their heads. Ultimately, the inability of students to recognize their own chaperones rests as a failure with Covington Catholic administrators.

For his part, Sandmann has released a statement through a public relations firm acknowledging that students parted as Phillips waded through the crowd. Yet in other interviews, Sandmann contends he had a right to stand his ground. Sandmann further explains during a NBC interview at 4:52 that Phillips did not attempt to walk around him to climb the steps, although other students had stepped aside. He also noted others had provoked his

classmates “into a peaceful response of school spirit.”

The YouTube posting entitled, “CHIEF EPHRAIM & THE PULL UP BOYS PT2 FACE OFF WITH ESAU,” exposes chaperone failures on the ground, as well as the teaching inadequacies at Covington Catholic. At 13:40, a student wearing a gray Bengals hooded sweatshirt and a Bengals ear-flapped fury hat callously shouts, “It’s not rape if you enjoy it.”

If at 14:05, the bearded man with the ski tag on his zipper was a chaperone, he allowed his charges within three feet of the insult-spewing Black Hebrew Israelites.

A rewind to the earlier 9:20 mark shows that the students previously were jeering but standing slightly further back at six feet away. During the nine-minute timeframe, the Israelite leader asks when the students will shoot up another school, another church or another synagogue, then proclaims pointing to the students: “This is what terrorism looks like because you shoot up schools; our people don’t.”

Adults should have corralled students an hour earlier and moved them to the top of the Lincoln Memorial steps.

It is not until the 20:35 mark of part two, nearly an hour after the first Israelite leader’s slurs, that the students yell their departing words as they run en masse to their busses.

Bystanders like Florida attorney Jessica Travis said, “The kids really went into a mob mentality, honestly,” adding that she did not see any chaperones in control. She heard one student tell the Hebrew Israelites to “drink the Trump water.”

Regardless of the reprehensible insults hurled at the Covington Catholic students, adults should have turned the other cheek and moved the group away. No excuses will suffice.

Gary J. Caruso, Notre Dame ‘73 American Studies major, serves in the Department of Homeland Security and was a legislative and public affairs director at the U.S. House of Representatives and in President Clinton’s administration. His column appears every other Friday. Contact him on Twitter: @GaryJCaruso or e-mail: GaryJCaruso@alumni.nd.edu

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Slow down and stick to what’s most important to you. If you scatter your energy, you will end up running in circles. Look at your personal and professional relationships and consider who you have time for. Clear your slate of excess debris, and set your sights on what you want to accomplish. Your numbers are 4, 15, 23, 28, 30, 33, 45.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Personal gains look promising. Expand your interests and skills, but don’t buy in to someone else’s scheme. Spend time looking and being your best and concentrating on advancing your ideas and plans. Romantic spending should not be wasted on someone with ulterior motives.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t let your personal life disrupt your business affairs. Stick to what needs to be accomplished, and don’t stop until you’ve reached your goal. How you handle your responsibilities will make a difference in the way your colleagues and superiors view you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Use your knowledge and expertise to help bring about positive change. Refuse to let someone trying to use you for something throw you off guard. Choose your friends and your lover carefully. Emotional deception is evident.

CANCER ( June 21-July 22): Make some changes at home that will allow you to pursue a creative hobby or entertain more. Set a high standard, and live by your rules. Personal gains look promising if you lead instead of follow.

Walk away from unpredictable people.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Listen carefully and base your decisions on what you verify, not what someone tells you. Problems with an older relative will add to your responsibilities. Be kind, but don’t make unrealistic promises.

Romance will bring you closer to someone special.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Think before you respond. Someone is probably asking for too much or trying to push you in a direction that isn’t in your best interest. Let your instincts lead the way to avoid getting involved in someone’s trap.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don’t make too much noise or someone will complain. Moderation will be necessary if you want to avoid a stressful situation. Avoid indulgent individuals as well as playing mind games. Stick close to home and to those you trust.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Consider what you want and what you can afford before you sign up for something that could turn out to be a scam.

Abide by the rules and regulations when dealing with institutions and government agencies.

AQUARIUS ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s important not to reveal secrets if you want to keep things moving along smoothly. Sharing too much personal information will put you in an awkward position. Uncertainty and inconsistency will make it difficult to make a decision. Sit tight.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Emotional matters will escalate if you sit around and stew about what’s happened. Focus on giving back, doing something nice for someone or taking better care of your needs. Someone with greater life experience will offer a wise alternative.

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nBA | Warriors 126, Wizards 118

Blaming the refs doesn’t help Luke Brizzolara Sports Writer

This week, New Orleans Saints players and fans have represented a per vasive problem in sports: Blame the refs. After blow ing a 13-point lead in the NFC Championship game this past Sunday, the Saints lost in overtime to the Rams, but Sean Pay ton and the rest of the Saints communit y have placed blame for the loss almost exclusively on one missed pass-interference call in the fourth quarter.

Granted, the missed call came at a costly time and was easily verified as the w rong call (or lack thereof ) by watching a replay.

Furthermore, there would be no bigger supporter of allow ing penalties to be rev iewed and overturned by replay than me.

However, by refusing to relent in their constant blame of the referees, Saints coaches, players and fans have perfectly represented the entitled attitude that is proliferating in sports and hurting the game. The call was bad, but throughout the game the Saints blew numerous opportunities and by refusing to address their ow n failures, they are pretending to be the v ictims of the refs when they are simply v ictims of their ow n persistent poor play.

First things first, there is no guarantee that the pass would have been complete, and even if it had been, the Saints had already been held to two red-zone field goals earlier in the first half. Speaking of which, the Saints had two early redzone trips before the Rams even had a first dow n, and they settled for field goals on both of them.

The Saints offense throughout the game was struggling, including less than 50 total yards of rushing from A lv in Kamara and Ingram combined. The Saints’ defense was equally deficient, as they let a Todd

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Gurley-less Rams offense kill them w ith play action and allowed Los Angeles to score field goals on their last four drives of the game.

Sean Pay ton got in on the mediocrit y as well, as he decided to throw the ball in the red zone on first dow n inside the t wo-minute warning while the Rams had only two timeouts. Not only was it a questionable play call, but Drew Brees decided to throw it into the dirt and miss a relatively open Michael Thomas. Not only did the refs and Rams beat the Saints, but so did Sean Pay ton, Drew Brees and the clock.

After the missed passinterference call, the Saints defense still let the Rams drive 46 yards in under a minute-and-a-half to tie the game and send it into overtime. But hey, it was the refs. Was it the refs who got the ball first in overtime, threw an interception and then let the Rams drive dow n the field to hit a game-w inning field goal?

These refs need a raise.

Yet, w ith all the drama on the missed call, we are still overlooking the fact that w ith more training and better access to replay, sports games today are officiated much better than they ever had before, across all major sports leagues. Should the NFL and other leagues discuss the abilit y to rev iew penalties on replay? Sure.

But players, coaches and fans throughout sports need to stop constantly berating referees and start taking personal responsibilit y for their play.

Ever y 5-year-old in daycare knows that life isn’t fair and you should only focus on your actions. It’s what leaders do, and it’s time athletes, coaches and fans did the same.

Contact Luke Brizzolara at lbrizzol@nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

Curry, Durant too much for Washington Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Stephen Curry scored 38 points, local product Kevin Durant had 21 and the Golden State Warriors hammered the ball inside to beat the Washington Wizards 126-118 Thursday night for their season-high ninth consecutive victory.

The two-time defending NBA champions put up 70 points in the paint after shooting 1 of 6 from the outside in the first quarter.

Curry was at the forefront of Golden State’s drive-thepaint strategy as he made just two of his eight 3-point attempts and was 12 of 16 inside the arc.

Durant, from nearby Suitland, Maryland, was 9 of 18 from the f loor.

Center DeMarcus Cousins had 17 points in 24 minutes in his third game with the Warriors since missing almost a full year with a ruptured left Achilles tendon.

Cousins was a matchup nightmare in the post against Washington, which went with a small lineup for most of the night.

Trevor Ariza led the Wizards with a season-high 27 points and Bradley Beal had 22 points as their twogame winning streak came to an end.

After the Warriors led by 12 after three quarters, the Wizards went on an 11-2 run to get back into the game.

With Curry, Durant and Draymond Green on the bench, a 3-pointer by littleused Chasson Randle with 7:46 left cut Washington’s deficit to two at 108-106, and Sam Dekker missed a lay-in on the next possession that would have tied it.

Shaun Livingston hit two free throws the next time down the f loor for Golden State, and dunks by Alfonzo McKinnie and Kevon Looney pushed the lead back up to eight. The Warriors pulled

away when Curry re-entered the game.

Tip-ins Warriors: Curry surpassed 30 points for the 19th time this season. ... One game after tying an NBA record by making his first 10 3-point attempts, Klay Thompson was 1 of 4 on 3s. ... F Jonas Jerebko did not f ly with the team because his wife was due to give birth.

Wizards: G Tomas Satoransky tied a seasonhigh with 20 points. ... F Otto Porter Jr. came off the bench for the 10th consecutive game, was 0 of 7 on 3-point attempts and finished with seven points. ... Beal shot 1 of 9 on 3s.

Up next Warriors: Visit old nemesis Kyrie Irving and the Boston Celtics on Saturday.

Wizards: Begin a threegame road trip Friday at the Orlando Magic.

nBA | Thunder 122, pelicans 116

Thunder top Pelicans, Westbrook scores 23 Associated Press

OK L A HOM A CIT Y — Russell Westbrook posted his NBA-leading 15t h t riple-double of t he season a nd t he Ok la homa Cit y Thunder beat t he injur ydepleted New Orlea ns Pelica ns 122-116 on Thursday night.

Westbrook f inished w it h 23 points, 17 rebounds a nd 16 assists for t he 119t h t riple-double of his ca reer.

The Thunder improved to 10-5 t his season when he gets one.

Pau l George had 23 points a nd 11 rebounds, a nd Steven Ada ms added 20 points a nd 13 rebounds for Ok la homa Cit y, which won its four t h st ra ight.

The Pelica ns were w it hout sta r center A nt hony

Dav is, who missed his t hird st ra ight ga me w it h a lef t index f inger spra in, a nd t he tea m a nnounced Thursday t hat Ni kola Mirot ic w i l l be out at least a week w it h a right ca lf st ra in.

Jr ue Holiday scored 22 points a nd Da rius Mi l ler matched a ca reer high w it h 21 for New Orlea ns, which has lost four of f ive.

Ok la homa Cit y led 6553 at ha lf t ime behind 18 points f rom Ada ms.

Westbrook secured his triple-double early in the third quarter, and the Thunder rolled to a 98-82 lead at the end of the period.

The Pelicans rallied, but never got closer than five in the final quarter.

Tip-ins Pelicans:

Starting

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E’Twaun Moore rested.

He has been dealing w ith nagging injuries lately. ...

C Jahlil Okafor scored 18 points in his sixth start of the season.

Thunder: G A lex Abrines sat out his 11th straight game for personal reasons.

He was active, but coach Billy Donovan said Abrines is not ready to play yet. ...

George was announced as an A ll-Star starter on Thursday. ... Mirotic, who averages 16.7 points and 8.3 rebounds per game, was injured Wednesday night against Detroit.

Up next Pelicans host the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday.

Thunder host the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday.

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— some of them are moving down and running a 200-meter.

Some of the field event people — we’ve got some long jumpers that run the 60-meters or the hurdles — but at this event they’re probably just picking one event to do as they get rested for next week but also just give themselves a chance to just do the one event and maybe a shine a little bit on that. The distance runners are going to take the weekend off, and get ready to do something big next week.”

The big event Sparks is referring to is Notre Dame’s Meyo Invitational, which will be held the following Friday and Saturday, Feb. 1 and 2, at Loftus Sports Center. The meet attracts some of the country’s premier talent, with its most famous event being the “Meyo Mile.” The Irish have their sights set on a big performance at home with the

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[that] Saturday night game I thought that some of the things that are the strength of our team — the culture — got drifted away from, whether it had been building up or it just showed up in the second and third periods of that game,” he said. “For me, we wear that seven for a reason; there are seven components to our culture, and when we start getting away from those things, then we have potential issues. We actually met on that after the Minnesota weekend, had a serious sit-down meeting about it, and the guys responded.

“I thought that this past weekend at Wisconsin, we were much more engaged and positive with each other, and we showed some bounce-back in both games, the first game especially when we fell behind after we had a 2-0 lead — we fell behind, we came back; we fell behind again, we came back and then we won the game. Having that pushback is part of that, you can’t just assume you’re going to win if you score the first goal or if you don’t score the first goal, it’s a 60-minute hockey game.

That’s something that we still need to be better at, is playing the full 60. We’re still not quite there yet, and I know that it will probably take a little more time.”

While Jackson attributed the recent struggles to team chemistry, part of the problem for Notre Dame has been injuries — the team has lost senior forward Joe Wegwerth for the season, and juniors Cal Burke and Cam Morrison remain out.

Despite the adversity, Jackson applauded the way his team stepped up to the task.

“It was huge. You’re kind of going against the odds, in a way, because you’re playing

Invitational on the horizon; as such, for Sparks and Notre Dame, the IU Relays serve as preparation and a chance for some stars to rest.

“This is a bit of a tune-up for us leading into next week’s Meyo Invitational, which is our biggest, most competitive home meet of the year,” Sparks said. “So we’re running some kids in some different events and resting [a lot of] distance kids — the majority of them will not compete this weekend — as we tune up and make sure we’re ready for the big one next week.”

The IU Relays are a two-day event that will begin at 5 p.m. on Friday with the 60-meter dash heptathlon event. Field events are set to start at 5:35 p.m. The meet continues on Saturday with the pentathlon 60-meter hurdles at 9 a.m., while field events begin a little later at 9:35 a.m. with the high jump portion of the pentathlon.

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Irish sophomore middle distance runner Brian Griffith competes in the Meyo Invitational on Feb. 3 at Loftus Sports Center. Most of the distance runners will rest this weekend to prepare for this year’s Meyo.

without three good scorers,” he said. “But we can’t dwell on that, we’ve got other guys that are stepping up and filling those roles, and they did that last weekend, and it will be no different until we start getting some of them back … this weekend certainly those guys are going to have to elevate again.”

One of the key contributors who stepped up was freshman Michael Graham, who had four goals in the two games against the Badgers (8-10-4, 4-4-4-1), good enough to see him win conference first star of the week. Jackson said it was good to see the young forward seize his opportunity to shine.

“He was a guy who we had really high expectations for, when we recruited him out of high school. He left after high school and played junior hockey and that’s when the injuries started, … I think it took him some time, it took him the first couple months to get acclimated, having not played a lot, and he started showing some positive signs,” he said. “We saw some of that potential when we played out at [NebraksaOmaha]. We’ve seen it here and there, but not consistently.

“Last weekend I think it was the circumstances, being thrust upon to play a real important role on one of your top lines and your top power play, and he grabbed a hold of it and ran with it, and that’s a great sign for us of the future with him.”

Against the Spartans (9-12-3, 5-7-2-2), one of Notre Dame’s most historic opponents — the teams first met in 1926 — the Irish have had the recent advantage, winning five of six Big Ten games over the last two years.

But this season, Michigan State boasts one of the top lines in all of college hockey, as junior Taro Hirose, sophomore Mitchell Lewandowski and junior Patrick Khodorenko have

scored 36 of the team’s 72 goals this year. Jackson said that Notre Dame will have to be on its toes — particularly between the pipes — to contain such a feared unit.

“We need to get on track at home. We need to be more consistent at home, we’ve been really good on the road this year, and we have to find that same level of focus and intensity at home that we have on the road,” he said. “We’ve had spots — I thought we played

well against Minnesota, especially the second night — but the big thing is that we have gotten really good goaltending on the road, and we need to make sure that’s the priority going into this weekend with Cale [Morris] and possibly [St. Cyr]. Like last weekend, Cale made some great saves when we really needed him to — he may have given up four goals the first night, but he made some really good saves in the process of that game.

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“We may not score five goals this weekend, Michigan State is playing really well right now: watching them on film, this is the best I’ve seen them.

They are playing with a lot of confidence, and that top line is scary good.”

The puck is set to drop at Compton Family Ice Arena on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 7 p.m.

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come for his team.

“If we could be in this situation at the under four minutes on Saturday, it would be awesome. I think our young guys are starting to feel like they belong and are getting a feel for this league,” Brey said. “It’s interesting w ith our young guys we’ve never head all three [Hubb, Goodw in, Laszewski] play well together … as I’ve mentioned w ith Goodw in and Laszewski, because they have the abilit y to put double figures on the board, they have to be aggressive, they have to maybe force a shot ever y now and then because we just need them to score for us.”

No. 3 Virginia (17-1, 5-1) comes in w ith an impressive season thus far, and following after them is a matchup against No. 2 Duke on Monday night. Brey knows his team w ill be a heav y underdog in both of these games, but he also notes that this presents the Irish a huge opportunit y to turn their fortunes around on the season.

“We haven’t gotten one of these in a while. W hen you get one like the one that is on the schedule for Saturday or Monday [Duke], then you can really change psychologically, and that is how karma really changes,” Brey

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game still had historical implications for the sport, with the Volunteers owning the series 21-7 and having only ever lost twice at home before to the Irish.

Despite Notre Dame trying to set the tone with an early bucket in the lane by graduate student forward Brianna Turner, the Volunteers managed to build a quick response to gain the lead and proceeded to hold onto it with a 7-0 run to close the opening quarter up 17-14.

The slow start for the nation’s top-ranked team continued when the Irish returned to the court for the second quarter, with Notre Dame unable to connect on shots and Tennessee reaching their largest lead of the night — eight — with over seven minutes left in the quarter. However, two backto-back layups by junior guard Jackie Young, followed by two Turner layups, gave the Irish their first lead since that opening possession. But the Volunteers proved they weren’t ones to roll over quite yet with a six-point run of their own.

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said. “We’ve seen it happen before, so that’s where you have nothing to lose. No one is giv ing you a chance in these next two, so let’s just let it rip and play.”

From a player perspective, junior guard T.J. Gibbs is excited for the opportunit y in front of his team and knows that it is important to continue to get in more experience and learn from it along the way against teams that present a formidable challenge. ”We have a lot more basketball to play. I’m excited for these next couple of opportunities that we have in a great stretch coming in here. It w ill be a fun ride,” Gibbs said. “This is just like any other game. They’re a great team and we’ve played plent y of good teams. I know we’re a good team and we just have a couple of errors that we need to kind of polish up before we go out there on Saturday, but I think this is a great opportunit y, a great chance for our young guys to get another experience, another game under our belt. I’m jumping and I’m excited. I can’t wait to see what Johnny [Mooney] is going to do out there and its just a fun opportunit y.”

Tip off is set for 1 p.m. at Purcell Pav ilion as the Irish prepare for their toughest stretch yet this season.

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Irish junior guard T.J. Gibbs probes the defense during Notre Dame’s 63-60 loss to Radford on Nov. 14 at Purcell Pavilion. Gibbs has started all 17 games and is averaging 14.2 points and 35.2 minutes this season.

growing and learning, and they’re not quitting,” Irish head coach Muffet McGraw said on the Volunteers.

As the half wound to a close, senior forward Jessica Shepard connected on a shot down low with seconds left to keep the Irish within three heading back into the locker room.

After 20 minutes of play, McGraw was especially displeased by the team’s rebounding efforts after having been bested by Tennessee 18-23 in the first half. She credited the Volunteer’s aggressiveness for their activity on the boards.

“We need to get the rebounds in order to run because we don’t get a lot of steals so we’ve got to get it off the backboard,” McGraw said.

“And normally [Shepard] and [Turner] are so good at it … we weren’t doing our job in the first half.”

McGraw pointed out that the Irish weren’t able to f low as they wanted to on offense, and needed to get back to what worked in order to generate a successful secondhalf offense.

“I thought offensively we just came out and were way out of rhythm,” McGraw said on the first half. “We were trying to get the ball into the post and we just settled

for jumpers, and once we started getting it into the post, I thought the high-low game was really effective.

In the second half, I thought we moved the ball a little bit better.”

Led by Young, the Irish took note of McGraw’s adjustments in the second half.

After having a respectable four-rebound, three-assist and eight-point first half, the junior broke out in the second half, contributing eight rebounds, eight points and seven assists — along with no turnovers — to record her first career triple double, and only the seventh alltime in program history, the first since former Irish guard Lindsay Allen recorded the feat versus Chattanooga on Dec. 27, 2016.

“She’s kind of the glue that keeps us together.” McGraw said on the junior. “She’s someone that we can count on to do absolutely everything. She can guard the other team’s best player, she’s going to be contending for leading rebounder, she’s going to lead the team in assists, she can score, she can get to the free throw line. We like the ball in her hand ... She’s not as f lashy as some of our other players, she doesn’t get as much credit as I think she deserves.”

In the third quarter, senior

guard Arike Ogunbowale put on an offensive show, tallying six points in the first three minutes to bring the Irish back within one. Shepard once again added two points in from the block, before Ogunbowale and classmate Marina Mabrey sunk two layups in transition. Mabrey had a relatively quiet night with only five points, but recorded four rebounds and four assists in her 29 minutes of play. With both teams going back-and-forth over the next few minutes, Notre Dame managed to separate with an 11-2 run to close the quarter. Of those 11 points, all but two of them were from the duo of Ogunbowale and Shepard.

In the final 10-minute period, the youth and inexperience of Tennessee proved detrimental, as the Irish poured in eight unanswered points to stretch their lead to 17. The Volunteers managed to close the gap slightly, thanks in large part to four points by freshman Zaay Green. The guard was a force in the first two quarters, recording 15 points, five rebounds and four assists before halftime. However, she struggled down the stretch, with all four of her secondhalf points coming down the stretch when Notre Dame

had already established a sizable lead.

McGraw said her strateg y entering the game was to contain Green, allowing her the 3-point line but cutting off the lane, a game plan Notre Dame’s guards struggled to implement before the break.

With the clock winding down, another 8-0 run by the Irish gave them the necessary lead, despite a 10-4 run by the Volunteers with just over a minute remaining to conclude the game.

Ogunbowale finished with a game-high 28 points — her 13th 20-plus scoring performance of the season — and commented on the toughness of the game between two prestigious programs.

“Even though they’re young they’ve got a lot of athletes … they play hard and when people play hard they’re always going to score, always going to play well,” Ogunbowale said. “That definitely was a challenge for us.”

The Irish will proceed to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for the second of their threegame road tour, taking on the Tar Heels on Sunday as they near the midpoint of the ACC regular season.

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Squad prepares After rocky start, Irish top for No. 3 Virginia Volunteers for road victory

By ALEX BENDER Sports Writer

This Saturday, Notre Dame prepares for a tall task when No. 3 Virginia comes to Purcell Pav ilion for an afternoon matchup. The Irish could badly use a w in as they have lost their last three and five of their last six, the latest defeat coming at the hands of Georgia Tech.

This past Tuesday, Notre Dame (11-8, 1-5 ACC) traveled to At lanta for t heir contest against t he Yellow Jackets (11-8, 3-3), and despite a fairly evenlymatched game and a va liant effort in t he closing minutes of t he second ha lf, t he Irish ultimately fell 63-61. In t he f irst ha lf, t he stor y for Notre Dame was once again junior for ward John Mooney, who took less t han 20 minutes to accrue his ACC-leading 11t h double-double of t he season.

A lt hough Notre Dame had

been dow n by as many seven in t he f irst frame, it stormed back to ta ke a 30-28 lead into ha lf. In t he second ha lf, bot h teams went back and fort h exchanging t he lead for quite some time before Georgia Tech took over on a huge run to build as much as an 11-point lead w it h about f ive minutes to go. The Irish comeback fell just short as t hey failed to capita lize on a number of occasions once cutting t he game to a onepossession def icit. In addition to Mooney posting 22 points and 14 rebounds, freshman Nate Laszewsk i a lso had an impressive night, scoring a career-high 19 points.

Despite the close loss on Tuesday, Irish head coach Mike Brey was encouraged by his team’s effort dow n the stretch and says a similar situation on Saturday would be a sign of good things to see M BBALL PAGE 11

By CHARLOTTE EDMONDS Associate Sports Editor

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Irish senior guard Arike Ogunbowale steps back for a jumper during Notre Dame’s 89-71 loss to UConn on Dec. 2.

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In an evening with no shortage of talent, experience won out as No. 1 Notre Dame topped Tennessee on the road 77-62.

The matchup had a lot at stake for both teams. For the Volunteers (12-7, 1-5 SEC) — who entered the game on a five-game losing streak and were in desperate need of a turnaround — the historic program was hoping to earn a marquee win. Meanwhile, Notre Dame was looking to compete as it did last January, when Tennessee built a 23-point lead before the Irish (19-1, 6-0 ACC) mounted a comeback that ended with a 14-point win and arguably marked the turning point in their quest for the national championship. Although the Irish had won seven of the last eight matchups, Thursday’s see W BBALL PAGE 11

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Notre Dame looks to ND to send small extend win streak vs. MSU team to IU relays

By TOBIAS HOONHOUT

By JOE EVERETT

Managing Editor

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After dropping four of its first five games to start the second half of the season, No. 11 Notre Dame will look to continue a recent turnaround this coming weekend, as the Irish welcome conference rival Michigan State to South Bend. A sweep for Jeff Jackson’s team over the Spartans would push the Irish unbeaten run to four games as postseason play nears.

Notre Dame (13-8-2, 6-6-1-1 Big Ten) got back to its winning ways this past weekend in a road series against Wisconsin, which saw the teams play the second game of the series at the United Center in Chicago.

A win and an overtime tie gave the Irish four points and overturned a dip in form that plagued the second-half start, a turnaround Jackson credited to a realigned emphasis on program culture.

“We had to have a conversation after the Minnesota series,

After hosting the Blue and Gold Invitational last weekend, Notre Dame will travel to Bloomington, Indiana, to compete at the IU Relays at Gladstein Fieldhouse.

Following a comeback effort by junior Logan Kusky in the men’s weight throw, the men’s team tied ACC foe Louisville with a score of 126 points for first place at the Blue and Gold Invitational last weekend. On the other side of the meet, the women team’s earned 121 points, finishing second behind the Cardinals. Irish head coach Matt Sparks, in his first season leading the program after spending the previous four as an assistant coach, commented that the team drew a lot of positives from the five-team meet at Loftus Sports Center.

“That meet’s fun because it’s got a bit of a team atmosphere about it that we don’t really find until we get to the conference meet with it being a scored competition,” Sparks said. “Being

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Freshman forward Cam Burke lines up a pass in Notre Dame’s 3-0 victory over RPI on Dec. 1 at Compton Family Arena.

at home, I think there was an extra level of energy with the team as well, and so I saw a lot of kids step up into leadership and contributing roles that we don’t traditionally see maybe until later in the season. It also allowed so people who aren’t our top-end kids who score points at the conference meet to step up a little bit because they found a niche where they could contribute to the team’s success on the day. So, it was good energy across the board because everybody that competed that day saw a spot where they could contribute, and that was fun to see.”

The Irish will travel a smaller team to Bloomington, and Sparks commented that it will be a unique opportunity for individuals to either run in a different event or focus on a singular one, treating the weekend as a preparation for something bigger down the road.

“Some of the sprinters are moving down an event,” Sparks said. “The 400-meter runners see T&F PAGE 10