Senators discuss Title IX
By MARY BERNARD news Writer
deputy Title i X coordinator
heather ryan presented updates about the University’s Title i X policy to the student senate on Wednesday.
The updated process expands the options students have when reporting sexual assault or harassment to the University. both the victim, or “complainant,” and the perpetrator, or “respondent,” have more autonomy in the new process.
ryan showed the senate the resources available on the notre dame Title i X website, including information on how to confidentially and non-confidentially report sexual violence, documents explaining the student reporting process and past student climate surveys showing the prevalence of sexual violence at notre dame.
“[Title i X] is about making
sure that students, faculty and staff have space on campus and can pursue academic inquiry, can pursue co-curricular activities and have a full experience at the institution,” ryan said.
The updated process, implemented in august of this year, gives complainants the choice to pursue administrative or alternative resolutions to cases. administrative resolutions will move more quickly than under the previous process. ryan said she hopes that resolutions will be given within 60 days of when the investigation begins in order to handle the issue efficiently and compassionately.
“even if someone might be dismissed from the University, we have a responsibility to care for them through this process,” ryan said. “but we also have a commitment to the safety and security of our campus, too.”
ryan also announced that she will be changing positions after
combined funding from the ocse and the office of student affairs.
“From the students, we are asking for a suggested donation of $5 a day to participate, but because we don’t want cost to be a factor in somebody participating, if a student can’t afford that, they don’t have to pay anything at all,” deLine said.
deLine said the idea for the stay-cation came to her last year when she saw last year when she saw students on campus over the course of the break.
“The dining hall was closed, so not only were they stuck on campus, but they were stuck on campus without meals,” deLine said.
This finding troubled deLine,
prompting her interest in improving the experience for these students. she wanted them to feel like they were getting a vacation, even while still on campus.
“i decided i wanted to do something by offering the students who were here already an opportunity to get to get together, eat meals together and bond over their staying here,” deLine said. “i wanted it to be something to actually celebrate.”
registration for the stay-cation can be done via a Google form emailed to students. registration closes Thursday at 6 p.m.
Contact Sara Schlecht at sschlecht01@saintmarys.edu
fall break. starting then, she will be the director of the office of community standards.
Following ryan’s presentation, student body president rebecca blais, student body vice president sibonay shewit and student government chief of staff Prathm Juneja discussed the report they will present to the board of Trustees regarding on-campus alcohol culture.
a lthough the report is unfinished, blais, shewit and Juneja talked through the research, findings and recommendations. The research is largely based on a 400-page report by the mcdonald center for student Well-being (mcWell) detailing student drug and alcohol use.
“at notre dame, only 19.8 percent of students said that they hadn’t consumed alcohol in the past 30 days,” blais said. “ ... by extrapolation, that would say that we have a non-drinking population of about 20 percent.” blais said that much of the alcohol consumption culture surrounds residential life on-campus.
“notre dame actually has higher percentages of alcohol consumption both in bingedrinking and alcoholism than any of our peers, both academically and athletically,” blais said. “it is part of our culture … and it is something we should address.”
blais, shewit and Juneja also support the callisto program, currently in use at 15 other institutions, which will facilitate anonymous recording and reporting of sexual violence on campus.
“callisto is a system created by survivors, for survivors,” blais said. “it gains a lot of autonomy. The committee on sexual assault Prevention is testing callisto’s viability on campus. Pending a vote to move forward with callisto on oct. 27, blais hopes to gain support for the program from the board of Trustees.
Contact Mary Bernard at mbernar5@nd.edu
a fter the Gateway’s dedication ceremony, the choir will play several more concerts in beijing before traveling to c hengdu.
“The bells originated in c hina. it’s one of the oldest musical instruments we have, but c hinese people in general know nothing about what we know as a handbell choir today, with the smaller brass bells playing different tunes and intricate patterns,” schneider-Kirner said. “it will be something very unique to the people we’ll be playing for.”
i n addition to the cultural connection, the bells offer a means of avoiding the censorship of c hina’s atheist government, schneider-Kirner said.
“With the bells, it doesn’t involve lyrics. a s more of a sacred music group, i think we can translate better since c hina overall is a pretty atheistic country,” she added.
The handbell c hoir will, however, be able to participate in catholic services at south cathedral in beijing and Pinganqiao cathedral in c hengdu.
“This is a pretty groundbreaking trip because we’re also doing things within the catholic c hurch,” schneiderKirner said. “a bout a year ago, a Fr. matthew, the rector of south cathedral in beijing, came to meet with [University president] Fr. John [Jenkins] as a way to open up doors for collaboration. he’ll be saying a mass with us and then we’ll be doing a concert at the cathedral for a hundred seminarians.”
The handbell c hoir will play several more concerts in and near beijing over the next few days: three at an international school, one in collaboration with a c hinese instrument orchestra at Peking University and one on the Great Wall.
“We’re just stuffing bells in our backpacks and bringing
portable music stands,” schneider-Kirner said. “apparently it’s nothing we can ask permission for; we’re just going to do it and see what happens.”
a fter a few days in beijing, the choir will fly to c hengdu, where they will play two more concerts in collaboration with szechuan University.
“We’ll combine with different groups: There’s a c hinese instrument orchestra, a 25-member erhu orchestra, a 50-member choir and a symphony orchestra from the school,” schneider-Kirner said. “some of these pieces we’re doing together; in order to bridge the gap, i’ve arranged a bunch of traditional c hinese music pieces that i think will work well on the bells, just so we’re not bringing completely unfamiliar music.”
a bout one third of the music the choir will play on the trip is traditional c hinese music, while the other two thirds are drawn from their usual repertoire, schneider-Kirner said. The choir will finish their tour playing at a mass and concert at Pinganqiao cathedral in c hengdu and sharing a dinner with the parents of a former choir member. schneiderKirner explained that the purpose of the trip is to convey a message of welcome from notre dame to the students at the various universities they will perform at and to bridge the cultural gap.
“We thought it would be a great opportunity … to do things within the catholic church, which is pretty phenomenal. i don’t know if any other notre dame groups, particularly religiously affiliated, have ever done anything in c hina. it’s definitely groundbreaking in that way,” schneider-Kirner said. “Primarily, it’s a great opportunity to promote peace and understanding and building bridges with our sisters and brothers in a sia.”
Contact Ciara Hopkinson at chopkin1@nd.edu
student senate
tutors is to facilitate a conversation.
“ n ormally students will slide the prompt across the table and we’ll just slide it right back,” she said. “We basically just encourage the student to talk about their paper and read it out loud. There’s not many quiet moments. a lot of people are nervous when they come in because students are so used to listening to a professor tell them what they need to change. b ut it’s really beautiful, the ideas we can come up with by talking.”
The Writing c enter features tutors from all disciplines and majors. Junior a nna b yrnes has an e nglish literature major and secondary education minor. a s a Writing c enter tutor, she said she feels her background in teaching helps her better communicate with
a rt center
program during the school year and a summer art camp.
The center has hosted events about major historical events or themes. Their signature program, titled “The Global e xperience,” focused a year of programming on 1963, when m artin Luther King spoke at n otre d ame.
“ i t provides education programming that people don’t normally get,” r ucker said. “You get exposure to a lot of different types of groups. a lot of times what we do is we end up connecting over food because it’s a natural way for people to connect and learn about art and culture within different groups.”
o ther events include a d ay of the d ead celebration and a ceremony of a frican marriage traditions where people from a frican countries share their traditions. r ucker encourages everyone to come to these events. s he said all people can find connections with art.
“For example, there are so many things that are similar between art and science that we take for granted,” she said. “The process to solve scientific process is similar to the design process. They’re not competing.”
r ucker said she believes the center can enact social change.
“ i t [the center] is as great of a peacebuilding tool as anything else that we have,” she said. “The more that you get to know people … it helps you to understand them better and find common ground.”
Contact Selena Ponio at sponio@nd.edu
students.
“Part of being a teacher is the ability to sit down with a students and go through their thoughts with them and help them build on their strengths,” she said.
b remyer said the tutors represent the audience that most academic writing is geared towards.
“ most writing is geared towards not necessarily a general audience but an informed, college-educated audience,” he said. “ s o the women who work in the Writing c enter are women who constitute a perfect audience for almost all of the writing assignments we have. We are the audience that most of the writing we do in college is geared towards.”
b remyer recalled his experience with writing centers and how they changed his perception of the writing process.
“When i started going to writing centers as a student,
it was a revelation,” he said. “ i understood that the process isn’t really about having someone read my paper and fix it — the process is to get me going, to get me to start the project itself and not wait until very late in the process. i f i start earlier, that project will be more successful than if i waited until the night before. The best tutorials take place earlier in the writing process, and the least successful, from our point of view, take place the night before or the day of.”
melei said her most common tips for students writing a paper are planning, discussion and passion.
“a lways make an outline, or at least jot down ideas for starting your paper,” she said. “Talk about your writing, and be passionate about it. a lot of times when we do academic writing, we’re doing it just for the grade. b ut the best papers i see are the ones where the
student is integrating their ideas. Write what you want to write.”
b remyer said students often react negatively to their own writing.
“a lot of students come in and say, ‘i ’m not a good writer and i never will be,’” he said.
“ i think what they’re saying is, ‘i ’m not a good writer or i ’ve been told i ’m not a good writer.’ it’s fear-based, and we’re trying to truly undermine those concerns. We try to let people know that you should come in with a mess, yet smile. ... e veryone’s writing starts out really messy.”
b remyer said the high quality of the Writing c enter tutors has greatly increased demand.
“We’re moving to a larger space,” he said. “We’ve had consistent demand over the last four years. The number of students has been consistently going up, and it’s because the women do incredible jobs
as tutors. The caliber of women who work there are the best and the brightest.”
b yrnes said her job is to help a student write a better paper, but also become a better writer herself.
“ it’s about the person who comes in,” she said. “They come to us with their paper, but really it’s about the person behind that paper and who they are as a writer. o ur job is to help them become a stronger writer.”
b remyer said the Writing c enter helps students become more successful as students.
“o ur philosophy is we are not concerned about the paper that brings to the student to the Writing c enter,” he said. “We are concerned about helping the person who came to the Writing c enter become a more successful person.”
Contact Gina Twardosz at gtwardosz01@saintmarys.edu
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By Charlie Kenney scene Writer
The sexual assault and rape allegations that have come out against harvey Weinstein are egregious and inexcusable. no two ways around it.
The number of victims is too great, the elements of the stories from the different women are too similar and the nature of the assaults is too disgusting and too criminal to excuse in any way. Yes, mr. Weinstein may not be convicted yet, and he may have unequivocally denied, “any allegations of non-consensual sex,” but by no means is he innocent until proven guilty. Audiotapes, confessions from former employees and multiple investigative articles prove mr. Weinstein’s guilt — a jury doesn’t have to.
mr. Weinstein has stepped in line behind numerous other powerful men in hollywood who have been accused, and in some cases convicted, of harassment, assault, rape and other sexually-based offenses. roman Polanski, casey Affleck, Woody Allen, bill cosby, donald Trump, charlie sheen and others have all been confronted by allegations that they definitively or allegedly used their status to sexually assault and manipulate women. The entertainment industry is an industry that has an incredibly apparent issue with sexual assault and one that needs to be directly addressed instead of being brushed under the carpet yet again. headlines with names of old men, young women and sexual assault can’t be allowed to continue to bombard our newspapers.
All of the men who have preceded mr. Weinstein in these crimes have not only had their reputations damaged
by their actions, but also their art. Woody Allen’s timeless comedies have been boycotted by numerous groups, women’s groups have attempted to shut down award shows over their involvement with roman Polanski and casey Affleck received a barrage of hatred during his illustrious award season campaign for “manchester by the sea.” People have chosen to abandon classic and critically acclaimed films in exchange for solidarity with the victims of their stars and for personal belief. They are often right in doing so.
With, Weinstein, however, the case is slightly different. Weinstein is not a director, an actor or a cinematographer; he is a producer. he buys the rights to films, selects the casts, handpicks the directors and essentially makes sure the movie gets made. he has been tremendously involved in movies for nearly the past 30 years, but to say that he makes films or that he is the creative force that brings them into being would be a bit of a stretch. This the problem. Political activists, cinephiles and women’s rights advocates everywhere already have and will condemn movies produced by mr. Weinstein’s two companies, miramax and The Weinstein company. It’s protocol in this type of situation: A man in hollywood gets accused of sexual assault and his movies get condemned, losing their luster. If you boycott movies produced by miramax and The Weinstein company, however, you boycott all of the directors that envisioned those movies, all of the screenwriters that dreamt them up, all of the actors and actresses that brought them to life and every member of the postproduction team that put them on the screen. boycotting Weinstein movies is also boycotting the movies of harvey Weinstein’s alleged victims, such as Gwyneth Paltrow,
rosanna Arquette and Angelina Jolie; it is boycotting the films of Quentin Tarantino that empower females and minorities in an overly white-washed and male-centric hollywood; and it is boycotting the production companies of six oscar best picture winners including “shakespeare in Love,” “The King’s speech” and “no country for old men.” condemning the films of mr. Weinstein is condemning the beautiful work of hundreds of other people, who would and have denounced their former producer’s actions.
harvey Weinstein’s actions are unforgivable. change needs to occur in the entertainment industry, and this incident is just another reminder of that. diversity needs to increase in every sector, sexual assault needs to stop going unpunished and power needs to stop being used as a means of manipulation. Film is a beautiful art, one that should be free of the vices that seem to be embraced in so many other parts of America, but it isn’t — not yet at least. one way we can embrace the beauty that has been created in film and hopefully move forward, however, is by watching miramax and The Weinstein company’s films — watching them for everyone but their producer. The films show what beautiful things the hollywood system can produce, and can hopefully produce in the future without a producer like mr. Weinstein.
hate harvey Weinstein, hate him as much as you want, but watch the movies he was able to make happen and love them if you want to.
Contact Charlie Kenney at ckenney4@nd.edu
The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
By BRIAN BOYLEN scene Writer
For a band with barely any vocals, Godspeed You! black emperor has always been an unabashedly political group. From their occasional public statement to their sample choice in their music, the canadian group has embodied a far-left, anti-government and at times anarchic ideology from their very inception back in the 1990s. They have continued this trend with their latest release “Luciferian Towers,” from the very titles of the songs to the outspoken press release that came with the album. In the release the band demands “an end to foreign invasions, an end to borders, the total dismantling of the prison-industrial complex” among other desires. From what I can tell, this is the most overtly political the group has been with their music and ideology to date. This doesn’t come as a surprise, however, with dismay about the current situation of the world being more of a norm than a departure nowadays. despite the jaded feelings, however, the album is not defeatist in nature — there is anger, hope and joy in the place where despair would be expected.
The album opener, “Undoing a Luciferian Towers,” starts slow but builds into a sprawling and triumphant crescendo that can’t help but inspire. There is a palpable tension that bubbles throughout the song, fueled by a building ambience that is punctured by chaotic and discordant trumpets and flutes. This tension doesn’t break until six minutes into the
song when a triumphant guitar melody bursts through the disorder, closing the song with a sense of hope.
The next track, “bosses hang,” is split into three distinct parts. I mentioned the titles of the songs being overtly political, and the image conjured by this title is one of the things that makes that point abundantly clear. The first part of the song starts unhurried with nothing but a morose drone, before being built on with intermittent guitar strums and drums beats. This leads well into the second section of the song, which maintains the mood and rhythm by initiating a repeating pattern of notes that remains throughout the song. This repetition increases in speed and carries the track seamlessly into the final section, which is the most layered and enjoyable — fitting for a climax. It evokes strange feelings, attributing intangibles such as triumph and hope to the repeating sounds of drums, guitars and other instruments, but Godspeed You! black emperor is able to delicately cultivate these moods on both this track and throughout the remainder of the album.
After the resolution of “bosses hang,” the album shifts to a somewhat chaotic interlude in the form of “Fam/Famine,” before hitting listeners with another lofty composition in “Anthem for no state.” The song starts off peaceful before the mood darkens with a heavy, dominating, consistent bass riff in part two. The dark instrumentation continues until the final section of the song, where the album culminates in its anger. Aggressive drums and a foreboding guitar propel
the track forward in a focused rage. This wrath is finally tempered towards the end of the song, when the uplifting strings return to balance out the mood. The album ends on this note, filled with indignation, but with as sense of hope — to say that although things are dire, there is a chance to fight back. This connects back to the press release, where Godspeed You! black emperor claims there are, “more of us than them,” imploring for people to unite and take back what is theirs. Although this political context is integral in understanding why the album sounds the way it is, there is no need to completely identify with their ideology and flirt with anarchy to enjoy their music. At the end of the day good music is good music, and this album certainly fits that description.
Contact Brian Boylen at bboylen@nd.edu
“Luciferian Towers” Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Label: Constellation
Tracks: “Anthem for No State”
If you like: Mogwai, Silver Mt. Zion
Identity politics: a real problem
o ne of my biggest fears in today’s American society is the increasing prominence of identity politics. The 2016 election proved that politicians are drifting away from championing ideas and principles and instead moving towards pandering to group identities.
b oth d onald Trump and h illary c linton sliced the voting population into distinctive groups, and consequently appealed to such groups. Trump appealed to the white working class, while c linton appealed to minorities and the LG b T community. The candidates did not view the electorate as composed of individual voters, but rather composed of large groups, wherein the individual members of each group were not in any form dissimilar from the other members of the group. Principled ideas that could foster broad, cross-group coalitions were not offered. r ather, candidates treated voters as mindless automatons who would inevitably succumb to group think.
d onald Trump treated blue-collared white people as a monolithic tribe that could be won over simply be appealing to white identity. h illary c linton used the same strategy with minorities.
o bviously, Trump was successful in garnering more electoral votes than h illary. h owever, the true winner may have been identity politics. b oth campaigns utilized such a strategy, and I anticipate that future political campaigns will do the same.
This is quite scary. We, as Americans, are increasingly becoming obsessed with our group identities. Politicians are taking advantage of this and often pinning groups against each other in the process. Identifying as a member of a group is certainly fine. h owever, obsessive and excessive tendencies towards group identity can quickly become a dangerous vice.
People should not denounce their group identities. h owever, people should also not allow group identity to cloud one’s own self-consciousness and belief in one’s own individual uniqueness. At the end of the day, a person is a unique individual. People should not let politicians feel entitled
to their vote simply because they are a member of a certain race or religion. s imilarly, people should not fall for demagoguery that emphasizes group pride at the expense of ideals and principles.
We need to start holding politicians accountable to providing real, substantive policies that are rooted in ideas. Identity politics can quickly turn a nation into a cluster of feuding tribes. We cannot let this happen, because doing so would entail severe internal strife.
Politics should be the practice of engaging with ideas and offering policies; it should not a pandering competition. I pray to God that politics soon return to the former, because the latter form of politics is not only free of substance, but also of any sense of virtue or moral responsibility.
Eddie is a junior majoring in economics and political science, with a minor in Constitutional Studies. He plans on attending law school after his time as an undergraduate at Notre Dame. He can be reached at edamstra@nd.edu
The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Kurdistan’s efforts towards independence
As Americans, we pride ourselves on being the purveyors of democracy. our entire foreign policy agenda of the twentieth century could be summarized by the word “democracy.” We strive to support our belief in liberty, stability and safety through democracy all across the world.
Last week, the Trump administration did just the opposite by rejecting the Kurdish referendum for independence. This decision is not only unethical, but also fails to recognize the countless positive effects an independent Kurdistan could grant to our own interests.
The Kurds are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without a nation to call their own. roughly 30 million Kurds live in the northwest region of the m iddle east, occupying territory in Iraq, Turkey, syria and Iran. They have their own language, race, security force and cultural identity. however, the redrawing of national boundaries by Western nations post-World War I left the Kurds scattered across a variety of states. For the last century, the Kurds have been fighting for unity with no success, all the while suffering under discriminatory structural and physical violence in their countries of residence.
After decades of struggle, there seemed to be hope for the Kurdish people this year. The Kurdish regional Government (K rG), the semi-autonomous government set up by Iraq to grant limited power to the ethnic group within the Iraqi border, held a non-binding referendum to gauge support for an independent Kurdistan. The result was an overwhelming yes, as nearly three million Kurds voted to form
an independent nation, which is 90 percent of the Kurdish population. If independence were pursued, it may spark a domino effect across the remaining Kurdish-occupied territory in surrounding nations, leading to mass calls for independence or emigration. Kurdistan could finally be born.
The Trump administration was swift in its rejection of the referendum. secretary of state rex Tillerson stated: “The vote and the results lack legitimacy and we continue to support a united, federal, democratic and prosperous Iraq.” This kind of rhetoric is very different from typical American support of self-determination.
President Trump likely finds the implications of an independent Kurdistan too dangerous to risk. Working towards independence now would distract energy and resources from the Kurdish fighting force, the Peshmerga, from battling the Islamic state (Is ). The United states has relied on the Peshmerga for decades as an ally in the m iddle east, a reliance that has only increased since the war on Is began. We have significantly increased supplies sent to the Peshmerga in recent years to aid them in our united effort against the terror group. They have been incredibly helpful in leading Is defeats in Iraq and syria and have reclaimed important ground. The move for independence would significantly destabilize the region and inhibit our ability to maintain our battle efforts.
Though there are legitimate military concerns, more important is the fact that the rejection of Kurdish independence puts us in agreement with Iran, who has also rejected the referendum. Iran routinely subjugates and executes Kurdish dissidents within its borders as it works to dominate the m iddle east. Kurdish independence serves to cause major internal
strife between the large Kurdish population and the government. by supporting a free Kurdistan, the United states would help to destabilize Iran, breaking down their regional strongholds in the process. most importantly, our self-designated duty as the protectors of democracy ought to guide our foreign policy. The emphasis placed on self-determination in President Wilson’s Fourteen Points has served as a guide for our foreign policy for the last century. We have led the fight for democratization all over the world. In the case of Kurdistan, we are acting as hypocrites by rejecting their call for independence. As the world’s chief example of democracy, we have supported independence movements in every single continent on earth. not only that, but we also risk upsetting our only true and vital ally in the region, injuring our ability to fight Is. We cannot reject a fair and deserved desire of our ally to establish a nation of their own, merely because of the estimated military implications. The development of Kurdistan would likely bring about major shifts in the m iddle east. however, the Trump administration has wrongly concluded that this instability is such a threat to our interests and ought to override our duty to the Kurds. As the poster child for self-determination, we must respect the Kurdish desire for independence. Kurdish independence is long overdue; it’s time we step up and support them.
Senior Jordan Ryan, a Pittsburgher formerly of Lyons Hall, studies political science, peace studies and Constitutional Studies. She welcomes any inquiries, comments or political memes to jryan15@nd.edu
The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Jordan Ryan Words of Wisdome
Eddie Damstra dinner Table Talks
happy b irthday: c hoose your words wisely this year. Look at the big picture and you’ll find a way to outmaneuver anyone trying to use emotional tactics to push you in a different direction. you can draw strength from your experience and knowledge, and rely on your vast number of associates in order to reach whatever goal you set. your numbers are 5, 18, 20, 22, 31, 36, 44.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): If someone puts pressure on you to change, consider why and react with intelligence. o nly do what feels right and is in your best interest. A change at home will help stabilize your life and your personal or professional position.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): you’ll come up with a plan that will help someone or something you believe in. m ake your intentions clear and set your plans in motion. your actions will make a difference and give you the confidence you need to move forward.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Take a unique path when it comes to how you earn your living, or use your skills to increase your income. Personal problems will surface if you are not honest about the choices you want to make.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): e xpressing your feelings may get things out in the open, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it will lead to a good ending. c onsider the consequences of your actions before you are too open about what you want.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): d efine how you want to move forward personally or professionally. reuniting with someone you have worked with in the past will be inspiring and give you options you didn’t realize you had. keep things simple and affordable.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): you’ll learn from what’s transpired lately, so be ready to make your position clear. d on’t be afraid to ask for what you want and to negotiate on your own behalf. If someone is too demanding, walk away and go elsewhere.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): An opportunity may not be as good as anticipated. refuse to let your emotions get involved in an important decision you have to make. Look at the facts and use common sense and practical applications to reach your goals.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): c heck out an opportunity that interests you, but do so secretively. Gather all the facts and consider the possible outcomes before sharing that information with anyone who may be influenced by your decision. Preparation will lead to success.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): s omeone from a different background than you, or who has an alternative perspective, will help you find the common ground that will encourage forward motion instead of stagnation.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): s hare your emotions and consider how best to handle matters that have to do with a sibling or close friend. s etting up a workable agreement can help you both prosper. d irecting positive reinforcement to others will ensure that you succeed in return.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Take an unusual approach when dealing with children, personal finances and contracts you want to revisit. Thinking outside the box will give you the edge you need to outsmart anyone who may oppose you. A change will do you good.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Liven up your life. Attend events or volunteer to help an organization you believe in. your contributions will be wellreceived and put you in a good position for when you need something in return. romance is highlighted.
Birthday Baby: you are creative, unique and interesting. you are unpredictable and entertaining.
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chance to win head balls. The i rish have some size on their backline in 5’7” senior defender Ginny m cGowan and 5’8” junior defender r achel h eard. The battle for crosses in the i rish box will be a battle to watch with all that height on display.
The i rish hold an acc record of 3-2-1 at this point of the season with four games
left. a win against the h okies would go a long way towards the i rish securing home field advantage in the acc quarterfinals. The i rish are in a three-way tie for fifth in the conference, just two points behind third-place Florida s tate. The four top finishers in the acc get to host first round matchups, so the i rish will look to do all they can bring the first game to s outh b end.
a fter this game, the i rish
will have a trio of road matchups against Florida s tate, unc and m iami. i f the i rish can win two of those games (especially against Florida s tate, who they currently trail in the standings), they’ll be in a strong position to secure one of the byes.
The i rish will take on the h okies at a lumni s tadium in an acc matchup at 7 p.m. on s aturday. The senior team members will be honored before the game.
