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Sailing to victory Notre Dame gets ahead and stays ahead to win big in 92nd meeting with Navy

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Irish senior running back Dexter Williams dives for the end zone during Notre Dame’s 44-22 victory over Navy on Saturday at SDCCU Stadium in San Diego on Saturday. In only his fourth game this season, Williams rushed for 142 yards on 23 carries. The senior also scored three touchdowns in the game, all of which came in the first half.

Book proves he doesn’t need flash to succeed Elizabeth Greason Assistant Managing Editor

Tua Tagovailoa has f lash.

Johnny Manziel had f lash.

DeShaun Watson has f lash.

Ian Book is not a f lashy football player.

And yet, the Irish junior quarterback proved once again Saturday that you don’t need to consistently make plays that w ill end up on SportsCenter to w in games. You just need to w in games.

No. 3 Notre Dame (8-0) defeated Nav y w ithout much issue, mostly thanks to its impressive offensive efficiency. Despite a stumble on their first possession of the game, the Irish were able to bounce back quick ly and efficiently, as Book brushed off senior receiver Miles Boykin’s fumble from the see GREASON PAGE 3

By CHARLOTTE EDMONDS Associate Sports Editor

SAN DIEGO — Despite a fumble by senior receiver Miles Boykin on the opening play of the evening, No. 3 Notre Dame handled the adversit y in st yle w ith an efficient offensive display on a warm evening at SDCCU Stadium.

The debut of the Nav y triple option in the subsequent play set the tone for both teams — run the ball.

Both the Irish (8-0) and the Midshipmen (2-6, 1-3 A AC) turned to their feet in crunch time, w ith seven of the nine touchdow ns in the matchup coming from the running backs.

Nav y tried to capitalize on the opening mishap, but senior Zach Abey was stuffed on fourth dow n at Notre Dame’s 27-yard line to give the ball back to the Irish. Once the Notre Dame offense returned to the field, three-consecutive runs by senior running back Dexter Williams for a total of 46 yards and an 11-yard catch by junior

receiver Chase Clay pool brought the Irish inside the red zone. The veterans then decided to hand things over to Jafar Armstrong, making his first appearance for the Irish since Vanderbilt after being sidelined w ith a leg infection. The sophomore had three rushes on the drive, the third of which put the Irish on the board, in addition to his eight-yard catch. Ian Book would continue to look to Armstrong throughout the matchup for deep gains.

“As an offense, we knew we had a bad play,” the junior quarterback said on the fumble. “It’s about the next play. No point thinking about what happened when you have a whole game in front of you.”

In his first attempt stepping in for injured senior kicker Justin Yoon, sophomore Jonathan Doerer missed his first attempt at the extra point but returned immediately after to place the ball deep in Nav y territor y.

The Irish struck again to close out the first

quarter, this time turning Book, who was incredibly efficient against the Midshipmen defense. A 18yard pass to Clay pool followed by a 12-yard keeper

by Book brought the Irish to the midfield stripe. Book then delivered a five-yard pass to freshman receiver Kev in Austin, who scampered 33 yards before being brought dow n at the Nav y 12-yard line. Williams’ 12yard run put the Irish up by 12 and Doerer’s successful kick extended the lead to 13 going into the second quarter.

The second quarter continued along the same pattern, as the Irish essentially imposed their w ill on the Nav y offense. The Midshipmen struggled to make significant gains, only rushing for more than six yards before halftime on t wo occasions.

Junior safet y A lohi Gilman, a transfer from Nav y, recorded seven total tack les on the evening.

Gilman commented on see EFFICIENCY PAGE 3

Williams and Armstrong make statement in win

By CHARLOTTE EDMONDS Asociate Sports Editor

SAN DIEGO — In the first game for the Irish featuring both senior Dexter Williams and sophomore Jafar Armstrong, the combination was on full display in San Diego, show ing no signs of jet lag as they contributed four touchdow ns to lead the Irish to a 44-22 w in over the Midshipmen.

Williams, who was did not play for the first four games of the season for undisclosed reasons, made his return to Notre Dame Stadium in memorable fashion, running 45-yards straight into the end zone on his first carr y against Stanford, and hasn’t looked back since, averaging 123 yards and totaling four touchdow ns in three games of play. His return couldn’t have come at a better time for the Irish. Facing arguably see POWER DUO PAGE 2

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their toughest opponent at the time, Armstrong had just been announced as unavailable following a knee infection.

Junior quarterback Ian Book said having Williams in the backfield adds another dimension to the offense.

“You know when you give the ball to Dex, he’s going to do his job,” Book said. “That’s all you can do when you have a group of running backs like that. Having Dex, Jafar, honestly everybody in the running back room, it’s a key for our offense.”

However, this Williams looked different: equally as explosive, but more composed and strategic about his routes. Although he had his fair share of f lashy 20-plusyard rushes that allowed him to break into free space, all three of his touchdowns came within 12-yards and required an awareness of blocking and

gaps in the defense.

Irish head coach Brian Kelly described this evolution is part of Williams becoming a more well-rounded player.

“I think what’s starting to come clearer to us is that Dexter is clearly becoming that top back, if you will,” Kelly said. “But he’s becoming a complete back. He has not been that for us. He got the game ball because of his blocking tonight. He was outstanding. Picked up a blitz, took care of the blitz, came back around, picked up another player. Caught the ball coming out of the backfield.

That was not part of his identity as a back.”

Although the path to success hasn’t been the smoothest for Williams, his maturation has impressed many in the program.

“Just his dedication to wanting to be the best player he can be,” Kelly said. “Not worried about a million other things other than being the best version of Dexter

Williams. That’s hard to do sometimes when you’re at his stage of being a fifth-year player, not playing in the first four weeks … it’s fun to coach him right now.”

For Williams, his final season in the gold helmet means more than just building his NFL stock.

“I don’t really try to chase stats,” he said. “I try to go out and win each and every game with my brothers.

It doesn’t matter if I have 10 carries, 20 yards, 10 carries, 100-some yards. I really go out and try to lay it all on the line that night and really just keep moving and just keep on winning.”

While Williams might have surprised fans in his calculated decision making, Armstrong exhibited playmaking skills both with and without the ball, especially with his catches out of the backfield.

That knee infection ultimately required surgery, and Armstrong wasn’t even practicing until this past Monday.

Although he had an impressive quarter of the season, averaging over 60 rushing yards and 29 receiving yards, if his performance against Nav y on Saturday was indicative of the direction he’s headed, those first four games were just a tease of what he’s capable.

A fourth-quarter catch is all that’s needed to explain Armstrong’s effect.

With Nav y knocking on the door to make this game a competition, two consecutive runs by Armstrong brought up thirdand-10. With the offensive line providing ample time for Book to make a decision, he scrambled in the pocket before finding Armstrong, having snuck behind outside to make a 27-yard catch along the right sideline. This catch set up the 22-yard touchdown for senior receiver Miles Boykin that would put the Irish safely ahead of Nav y, with the score holding for the remainder of the game.

“On that play, I mean, I think it’s just a broken play,”

Book said. “The guys are working to try to get open for you. As a quarterback, to see Jafar sprinting down the field, there’s nothing better.

Happy he was working that hard. It was a big play in the game for us.”

Armstrong’s five catches for 64 yards led all receivers in the matchup and complimented Williams, scoring the first touchdown for the Irish.

“Jafar is coming back after a month off,” Kelly said. “He’s not there yet as the runner that we want him to be. But, boy, can he catch the football.

So they’re kind of identifying themselves as to who they are right now. But I think we’re going to get more out of Jafar as we continue to play.”

Even with efficient night

by Book and a great supporting performance by the Notre Dame receivers and tight ends, everything kept coming down to the dynamic duo in the backfield.

Contact Charlotte Edmonds at cedmond3@nd.edu

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Irish junior defensive lineman Julian Okwara brings down a blocker during No. 3 Notre Dame’s 44-22 victory over Navy at SDCCU Stadium on Saturday in San Diego. Okwara recorded five total tackles, including one sack and one tackle for a loss, during the victory. Notre Dame remains ranked No. 3 in the AP Poll after the victory.

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Williams rushes for a 9-yard touchdown to put nd up 20-0

Senior running back dexter williams

The Irish managed to gain an early advantage in San Diego on Saturday night, leading by two scores after the first quarter. Looking to make a statement with just over 12 minutes until halftime, the Irish offense marched down the field to Navy’s 9 yard line. With 7:07 to play in the half, senior running back Dexter Williams broke two tackles and dove for the pylon to make it a three score game.

Senior running back Dexter Williams rushed for 142 yards on 23 carries, averaging 6.2 yards per carry, during Notre Dame’s 44-22 win over Navy on Saturday night.

Williams scored three touchdowns in the victory and helped the Irish gain a four score lead heading into the locker room after the second quarter. On top of his performance on the ground, Williams had three receptions for 27 yards.

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Lyons Hall hosts 5K Mara Fox Run The annual memorial race, walk fundraises for study abroad scholarships

By NATALIE WEBER News Editor

Traveling to Spain with her parents, Mara Fox fell in love with Toledo. She hoped to study abroad there, and planned to pursue a minor in Spanish. She was enamored with the language and wanted to ser ve in Spanishspeaking communities.

But she never had the chance to realize her dreams.

In 1993, while walking back to campus, the then-freshman was hit and killed by a car. According to the South Bend Tribune, the driver “was still intoxicated at the time of his arrest,” though he was never convicted of drunk see RUN PAGE 4

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Students run as part of the annual Mara Fox 5k Run and 1 Mile Fun Walk. The event, in its 25th year, memorializes Mara Rose Fox, a Notre Dame student killed by a drunk driver in 1993.

University President Fr. John Jenkins released a statement Sunday offering his sympathies to those impacted by the Tree of Life Congregation shooting in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning.

“On behalf of the University of Notre Dame, I extend my deepest condolences to the families and friends of the shooting victims at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, and to their extended see SHOOTING PAGE 3

Saint Mary’s to observe Lecturer reflects on meritocracy Martin Luther King Jr. Day

By NICOLE SIMON News Writer

The Political Theory Program hosted its two-part biennial Niemeyer Lecture in Political Philosophy on Thursday and Friday in the McKenna Hall Auditorium.

Michael Sandel, a professor of government at Harvard University, presented the lecture, titled “Why the Populists have a Point: the Tyranny of Merit and the Future of Democracy.”

Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and co-sponsored

by NDVotes, the Niemeyer Lectures honor Gerhart Niemeyer, a former professor of political philosophy at Notre Dame, and are made possible by Notre Dame alumnus Raymond Biagini. The lecture consisted of two consecutive talks — Thursday, Sandel spoke about the present political climate, and Friday he offered various solutions for our future state of affairs.

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“[On Thursday] I tried to diagnose our current political moment,” Sandel said at the Friday lecture. “I tried to make sense of the populist uprising against the elites. Today, I would like to say only a little bit more by way of diagnosis and try, for the most part, to offer some concrete, practical illustrations of what an alternative to the purity of merit might look like.”

Sandel cited the British sociologist Michael Young, who coined the term meritocracy and claims that a meritocratic society widens the gap between classes by exaggerating both the superior’s superiority and the inferior’s inferiority.

“Young concluded his dystopian scenario by predicting that in the year 2034, the lesseducated classes would rise up in a populist revolt against the meritocratic elite,” Sandel said. “That revolt arrived 18 years ahead of schedule.”

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In an email to students Friday, Interim College President Nancy Nekvasil announced that Saint Mar y’s will obser ve Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 21 as an official campus holiday.

In obser vation of the national holiday, the College will close its offices and there will not be any classes.

This change has been made “to allow students, faculty and staff the opportunity to engage in Dr. King’s commitment to justice, peace and equality in their

communities,” Nekvasil said in the email.

In order to accommodate the change to the academic schedule, what would typically be a study day on Friday, May 3, will now act as a “Monday” class see MLK PAGE 3

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initiating a new program meant to facilitate political conversations on campus.

Editor’s note: Throughout the 2018 midterm election season, The Observer will sit down with various student organizations and professors to discuss political engagement and issues particularly pertinent to students.

In this sixth installment, the leader of “Converge” discusses

As campaign rhetoric across the nation continues to escalate in the lead-up to the 2018 midterm elections, some students at Notre Dame are seeking to build understanding across the aisle through “Converge,” a new program

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that matches up liberals and conservatives to facilitate a discussion about political beliefs.

Junior Steven Higgins, who is leading the program at Notre Dame, explained that Converge is more focused on the belief-forming process than specific beliefs see CONVERGE PAGE 3

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SMC-DM throws party to support hospital

By MIA MARROQUIN News Writer

Saint Mary’s College Dance Marathon (SMC-DM) kicked off Halloween festivities Sunday by hosting a party for families of children being treated at Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis.

SMC-DM hosts an annual 12hour event every year known as “Dance Marathon,” which is held to raise funds for Riley Children’s Hospital. Students, faculty, staff and community members are encouraged to stand on their feet for 12 hours in honor of the kids at Riley Hospital. The day features

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Synagogue in Pittsburgh, and to their extended family among the Jewish students, faculty and staff here at Notre Dame and in South Bend,” he said in the statement.

The shooting took place when a man shot and killed 11 people and injured six more at a synagogue, according to the Pittsburgh

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themselves.

“People take a political test, where it’s asking these questions based on, [for example], ‘Are you pro-choice? What do you think about gun rights?’ And we are able to take that information and put them on a liberal-toconservative scale,” Higgins said.

“Then we take the most conservative, most liberal and people on either side of the spectrum, and we match them up for some conversation. This is based on their availability, of course, but then they sit down and talk more so about the fundamentals of their beliefs, how they came to possess the beliefs that they do then say, what’s their opinion on health [care] policy. It’s less so of a debate and more of a genuine conversation about how they developed the beliefs that they have.”

In order to create a list of matches, Higgins said all responses to the survey were put into a spreadsheet. Respondents were ranked on a scale of one to five, with one representing the most liberal and five representing the most conservative. More conservative individuals were paired with more moderate liberals, and vice versa.

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schedule. Faculty are allowed to hold classes until 2 p.m. on this day, according to the

entertainment, food, dancing and performances.

The next annual Saint Mary’s Dance Marathon will take place March 30 at the Angela Athletic and Wellness Complex, according to the event website. Throughout the year, SMC-DM hosts many fundraising events in anticipation of the day, including a 5K, Riley Week and the Halloween Party.

An event several weeks in the making, the Halloween Party had Twister, “Mummy wrap” races and pumpkin painting. The Riley Family Outreach Committee took responsibility for reaching out to Riley families, setting up and planning out the day’s

activities.

“It is a great opportunity to meet the kids that we are fundraising for at Riley, and have fun doing it,” senior Madeleine Corcoran, executive for the Riley Family Outreach Committee said.

Families, kids and Dance Marathon members spent a few hours sharing in community and fellowship while raising money for the hospital. SMC-DM raised $125,425.48 for Riley Children’s Hospital this year, according to SMC-DM’s website. Since its creation, SMC-DM has raised $1,110,708.44, the website said.

“I love the Riley families, it is always great to connect with them

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The Anti-Defamation League said in a statement that the shooting is believed to be the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in United States history.

In his statement, Jenkins condemned anti-Semitism and pledged solidarity with victims.

“A mass shooting again bloodies the American landscape, but now with the venal ingredient of anti-Semitism as a motive,” he said. “On this, the Sabbath

for our Catholic university, intercessions were offered today at Mass in the Basilica and at students’ resident chapels on behalf of the Tree of Life departed and their surviving loved ones.

“In the days ahead, Notre Dame will look for ways to mourn in solidarity with our friends and to address the venomous hatred directed at them because of their faith and identity.”

perfect split between ideologies in terms of responses, Higgins said.

“It’s very ironic,” he said. “We had a perfect amount of matches on the liberal and conservative side. That’s just bizarre to me.

When we cut it and threw both sides into two columns and I was like, ‘Oh, there’s perfect amount!’ … I think that’s really telling about the people who wanted to come out and take this quiz. Overall, it was very evenly split. We were looking at the aggregate data from the questions on the one-tofive scale, and it was almost universally kind of even across the board.”

Converge has been run twice at the University of Virginia, and once at another school in Kansas, Higgins said. Notre Dame’s Converge session will be the largest conducted so far, with 154 people participating. It is being run in coordination with all major political organizations on campus, including student government, BridgeND, College Democrats, College Republicans and Young Americans for Freedom.

BridgeND ran a pilot of Converge at a recent meeting, and this past Thursday there was a kickoff event where the president of College Democrats and College Republicans simulated a conversation. Fifty people, or about a third of the total respondents,

attended this event, which shows “the energy and excitement” about Converge, Higgins said.

Higgins also noted the program will be taking place late in the election cycle, when both parties start deploying more negative advertisements in an attempt to fire up their bases. He said he hopes Converge is able to demonstrate large-scale agreements, in addition to building understanding.

“This is a very important time to have these conversations to try not to fall into this overwhelming partisanship,” he said. “I’m hoping it’s going to go really well.

When we were looking at how partisan everybody was, there were not very overwhelming partisan differences. There were definitely partisan differences and people pretty far on the scales, but they were still more moderate than I was expecting, at least.

The extremes were not as large as I was thinking. It seems that there’s a lot of people who have more moderate views on certain issues. … That gives me hope in the fact that when they’re sitting down and having these conversations, there might be something they agree on. Having that initial agreement … makes it a little bit easier.”

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Final exams will not start until after 1 p.m. on Monday, May 6, to allow students to study and make up for the time lost on the former study day, according to the

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“I’d like to thank the faculty, staff and students who have worked to provide an opportunity that allows us to honor Dr. King and celebrate his legacy,” Nekvasil said.

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and see them,” Corcoran said.

The event had a high turnout rate from both students and families, Corcoran said, a success she attributes to its location.

“Last year we held the party at the zoo, but moved back on campus this year,” she said.

First-year Maddie Eckrich said she decided to join Dance Marathon and help with the Halloween Party because of her personal connections to Riley Children’s Hospital.

“The best part of my day was getting to meet the kids and learn their stories and, most importantly, help kids feel like kids again,” Eckrich said. “There is nothing

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contributors to this revolt has to do with the role of higher education in society.

“One of the deepest political divides in American politics today is between those who have and those who lack college degrees,” Sandel said.

“These days, discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation is widely condemned, and one could almost say that the only remaining respectable prejudice is what might be called credentialism.”

This divide perpetuates a “tyranny of merit” for the educated, Sandel said, and a “politics of humiliation” for the uneducated. This is because higher education in the United States is not only a means of advancement, but also a symbol of social esteem. The value of admittance into a top-tier school, then, results in a grossly competitive environment of Advanced Placement classes, extracurricular leadership and hours of volunteer service, he said.

“The tyranny of merit oppresses not only the losers, but also the winners,” Sandel said. “It creates such a high-pressure adolescent experience for mainly upper-middle-class kids that though they win the competitive race, they arrive injured in certain important psychic ways.”

To solve this problem, Sandel proposed the college admissions process be turned into a lottery in which every qualified applicant is placed into a pool from which the admitted students are randomly chosen.

“The reason for this is not primarily for the sake of fairness, but rather for the sake of alleviating the pressure of the kids who apply, and also for the sake of puncturing the hubris that inevitably follows that highly-pressurized experience,” Sandel said.

However, the problem

better than seeing the smiles on the kids’ faces.”

Amy Newcomb, a mother of a Riley patient, shared how much the event resonated with her and her family.

“It means a lot to see a network of individuals come together to honor kids that have been through so much and supporting a good cause,” Newcomb said. “It is moving to see how many people are here to support Riley Children’s Hospital, in an effort to keep research and funding alive to help the kid.”

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of meritocracy is not one isolated to colleges and universities.

“My objection is about the pervasiveness of meritocratic attitudes and practices,” he said. “My concern is to keep merit in its place, so to speak. The morally corrosive attitudes that meritocracy generates arise when meritocratic assumptions spread beyond discrete context of employment and college admissions.”

Sandel explained how this pervasiveness of merit leads to an inevitable separation of the upper and middle classes.

“Increasingly, the affluent secede from public places and services, leaving them [to those] who can’t afford anything else,” Sandel said.

“Increasingly, we find that those who are affluent and those who are of modest means live and work and shop and play different places. And this has the effect of evacuating public spaces of people from different economic backgrounds and creating fewer and fewer class-mixing institutions.”

With fewer multi-class interactions, public discourse becomes less frequent and meaningful, which contributes to a more polarized political discourse, he said.

Sandel said a possible solution could be improving public facilities and services so that poor and rich alike want to use them. He recognizes, however, that improving the state of our political affairs is a much broader and challenging endeavor.

“To reinvigorate democratic politics, we need to find our way to a morally more robust public discourse,” he said. “One that honors pluralism by engaging with our moral disagreements rather than avoiding them, one that takes seriously the corrosive effect of meritocratic strategy on the social bonds that constitute our common life.”

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driving.

To honor Fox, who was a resident in Lyons Hall, former Lyons rector Sister Kathleen Beatty started a walk in Fox’s name. In the 25 years since Fox’s death, the event has grown into a campus-wide race to raise funds for a study abroad scholarship in Fox’s name. And on Saturday, Lyons Hall hosted the last official Annual Mara Fox 5K Run and 1 Mile Fun Walk.

“We had the first real official campus-wide Mara Fox Fun Run for two reasons — not just for the scholarship, but also to raise awareness about drinking and driving,” Beatty said.

“So we had a lot of the campus dorms came and supported it and came out. We had people from the community.”

More than 150 people attended this year’s race, sophomore Caroline Cooper, one of the race’s organizers, said. The scholarship funded by the race has grown to $300,000 and benefitted 51 students studying abroad in Toledo.

“I think [the race] is important because it helps raise money for the Mara Fox scholarship which allows students to study abroad in Toledo, Spain, which was one of Mara’s dreams,” Cooper said. “Students — since the year she died — have been able to go and live out part of Mara’s dream, so we definitely feel very lucky that Mara’s watching over us in Lyons, too.”

Senior Matthew Heeder is one such scholarship recipient.

He said he participated in the race Saturday to support the scholarship that helped him achieve his goal of traveling to Spain.

“Really, I wouldn’t be able to go without that [scholarship],” he said. “So [it’s] just unreal to come out here and give back in some tiny part of that and meet the family and thank them in person.”

Of the race participants Saturday, freshman Michael Lee was the top male finisher and freshman Brianna Carlson was the top female finisher.

Terry McCarthy, Fox’s stepfather, also participated in the race this year, a tradition he has kept up since the race was founded.

“It has been the main motivator for me to keep running all these years,” he said Saturday.

“I will be running the 5k today at 83, for the 24th time, and this year I’ve run 20 races so far. And the thing that has sustained me has been this wonderful devotion that we still have for Mara.”

Teresa McCarthy, Fox’s mother, was also in attendance at the race. She said she remembers Fox for her spirit and love of the University.

“She was our youngest daughter — youngest of three girls — and time comes, she was a military brat and had been moved around all her life, so when she came to Notre

Dame, she knew it was going to be for a full four years and she loved it,” she said. “She loved her roommates, loved her studies.”

Cooper also said in an email that Saturday’s run is not “necessarily the last run,” though Lyons Hall is looking into other possible fundraisers in honor of Mara.

“The fate of the run and future fundraising events for Mara are still in flux at this time but there will still be events for Mara in the future,” Cooper said.

Terry McCarthy said the University has promised to keep the scholarship fund going.

“Now the family of Mara Rose Fox is completely assured that the scholarship will continue in perpetuity and that makes us feel just wonderful,” he said. “But we will continue to come back to Notre Dame for special occasions — either with the international studies or with Lyons Hall. We are eternally grateful to the fact

NATALIE WEBER | The Observer

Students race to finish the 25th-annual Mara Fox 5K Race, hosted by Lyons Hall, on Saturday. The campuswide event has helped the scholarship in Fox’s honor grow to $300,000 and has funded 51 students so far.

that Lyons Hall, 25 years, has made this their signature event and brought all of these people together in memory of Mara Rose.”

Beatty said she hopes the race leaves a lasting legacy that

encourages people to take their decisions seriously.

“It’s good that people keep learning and take responsibility and make better decisions in life,” she said. “That’s I think the goal for all of us as human

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beings is constantly growing and greater awareness of what we’re supposed to be doing in our lives.”

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By MATTHEW KELLENBERG Scene Writer

When Gregory Alan Isakov isn’t tending to his threeacre farm, the singer-songwriter spends his time touring across the globe and recording music in his converted studio-barn. “Evening Machines,” born from these studio-barn sessions, tackles Isakov’s curious lifestyle with impressive clarity and depth. Isakov has long thrived at illustrating setting. Here, the musician too strives for new heights of introspection — and succeeds. It is Isakov’s best work yet.

The album opens with “Berth,” which Isakov describes as “an immigration song, about landing in this country and throughout time.” Isakov is himself an American immigrant; he and his family left South Africa during the apartheid when Isakov was 7 years old. Reflecting upon his journey, Isakov sings, “New York lady, holding in her heavy hand / sacred lantern, guiding dawn.” The line is poetic, personal and, unmistakably, political. This is not just one man’s immigration story; it’s a people’s history of a perpetually controversial topic.

Next on the record, “San Luis” explores the nuances of the farmer-musician lifestyle. San Luis is not one place, but two: the San Luis Valley in Colorado, where Isakov lives, and San Luis Obispo, a California city the musician visited on tour. This dichotomy is a prevalent theme in “Evening Machines” — is Isakov a farmer, a musician or “somewhere in between?”

“Evening Machines” escalates, if only briefly, on

By CHARLIE KENNEY Scene Writer

“First Man” opens with turning gears, flickering lights, static radio and heavy breathing. The face of a man flashes in and out of frame. His countenance is akin to the feeling of the scene — confused, dynamic, cramped.

Suddenly, the commotion seems to sort itself out. The lights are on more than they are off. His heartbeat decreases. The scene begins to gain a sense of continuity, a discernible storyline. It becomes a scenario with certain stakes rather than an arbitrary cacophony of light and noise.

As it settles, we see Neil Armstrong, not in a glimmering space suit, not in a gargantuan space shuttle; but in a helmet reminiscent of a fishbowl and an aircraft fit to trade bullets in World War I. If one can determine anything from the scene, it’s that he is in no way on his way to the moon.

This opening scene, despite its seeming ambiguity, sets the tone for the rest of the film.

“First Man” is not a film about the glamour of the NASA program and Neil Armstrong’s romanticized odyssey to the moon. It’s a slow-moving film that documents the arduous, mathematical and, at times, deadly process to get someone on the moon.

The first scene isn’t pretty or simple. It’s a depiction of Armstrong testing the X-15 rocket plane to see how high it can elevate while still retaining necessary levels of oxygen. During this test, Armstrong inadvertently launches his plane out of the atmosphere, where he no longer has control, and almost ends up perishing because of it. The scene immediately grounds any ideas that audiences

“Southern Star.” Clocking in at just 2 minutes and 19 seconds, the album’s third track provides a glimpse — one chorus worth — of Isakov’s energetic impulses. Clearly, the singer does not want to make a full-fledged pop song, at least not yet.

On the album’s seventh track, Isakov abandons this reservation. “Caves” uses the same sort of imperative songwriting, swelling instrumentals and reverberating hook as any decent Mumford and Sons single. But Isakov brings authenticity to his work. When Isakov sings “This town closes down at the same time,” one knows this town is his own, not one glimpsed through the window of a tour bus.

Furthermore, the singer’s solemn vocals keep “Caves” from escalating into rural romanticism.

Next on the track list, “Chemicals” is a song of subtle trappings. The warm hum of the cassette recorder. The piano notes hidden behind guitar strums. The minimalist lyrics — “Coffee burns, the stomach churns / chemicals and caffeine.” But “Chemicals” is not a song that treads lightly.

Written about Isakov’s struggles with anxiety, “Chemicals” contains some of the album’s most intimate lines (“Was it just chemicals in my head?”) and most stirring vocals.

Gregory Alan Isakov backtracks on “Dark, Dark, Dark,” which sounds better fitted to a Lumineers record than “Evening Machines.” Lyrically, “Dark, Dark, Dark” aligns with the “Evening” aspect of “Evening Machines.” Behind these lyrics, synthesizers and background vocals also contribute to the album’s gloomy aura. Yet the kick drum/tambourine instrumentation makes “Dark, Dark, Dark” sound more like The Lumineers’ “Sleep on the Floor” than an

Isakov original.

Finally, Isakov tones things down for the album’s last three tracks: “Too Far Away,” “Where You Gonna Go,” “Wings in All Black.” The three songs reacquaint listeners with the aesthetic core of the record: dark ambiance, brooding lyricism, deliberate instrumentation. None are the most ambitious or striking songs on “Evening Machines.” Yet there is something to be said for the album’s felicitous closing thought: “I’ve been down, down, down, down … but now I’m here.”

There is a common thread in folk music that a fresh start begins on the open road. Gregory Alan Isakov holds the opposite. For him, there is no comfort in escapism. Rather, solace can only be cultivated from one’s home soil. Thoughtful, poetic, sincere, “Evening Machines” makes a convincing case for that sentiment.

coming into the film might have had about the space program being a quick, straightforward response to the Soviets.

The entire film is merely a series of these tests that Armstrong or his colleagues partake in to ensure that a landing on the moon is feasible. It’s Armstrong nearly dying in an X-15 test run, his colleagues not coming back after a T-38 crash and the Apollo 1 crew being pressurecooked in their cabin due to an electrical malfunction. “First Man” paints putting someone on the moon as a series of trials and errors in which Armstrong was one of the few men who managed to escape error.

This is not to say that “First Man” is simply using Armstrong as a vehicle through which director Damien Chazelle can talk about space flight. As the title of “First Man” suggests, it is a film that is intimately about Neil Armstrong himself, and how he traverses these various trials and errors.

After his flight to the moon, Neil Armstrong became a public figure notorious for avoiding the gaze of the public and of the media. And, in the film, through his soft-spoken, emotional, reserved portrayal of Armstrong, Ryan Gosling characterizes a man who no doubt would avoid the media if stardom ever came to him.

Gosling isn’t a macho, outspoken Armstrong who desperately wishes to go to the moon and stick it to the Soviets. He’s a man whose job happens to require him to go to the moon, who has a hard time telling his kids that he might not make it back and who struggles much more with the death of his daughter than he does with any dramatic change in elevation.

With this deep development of Armstrong and focus on the fickle nature of NASA programs, the film

is an outward antonym of prior films on the subject.

“Interstellar,” “Gravity,” “The Martian,” “Moon” and “Apollo 13” are all focused on the wonderment of space, the stakes of their missions and the trials that face its characters when they are in space. “First Man,” on the other hand, focuses on the here and the now — on human emotion and Earthly occurrences.

“First Man,” however, does not only differ from films in its respective space genre. It also is a film that is radically different from the rest of director Damien Chazelle’s filmography.

Chazelle’s previous three feature films, “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,” “Whiplash” and the brieflyBest-Picture-winning “La La Land,” all revolve around music — particularly that of now-Oscar-winner Justin Hurwitz. Whereas “First Man,” despite two phenomenal tracks from Hurwitz, is a gross departure from that trend.

This departure from film grounded in music and the subsequent success of “First Man” is perhaps Chazelle’s greatest accomplishment. He proves that he isn’t some 33-year-old whiz kid who happens to know how to film people singing and dancing. He knows how to work a camera in silence and understands how to structure a compelling plot when it isn’t dressed up with show tunes.

“First Man” is a film that brings a breath of fresh air to both to Chazelle’s filmography and films focused on the cosmos. It’s a film fit to bridge the gap between the blockbusters of the summer and those which will be soon vying for their sport at the award shows.

Contact Matthew Kellenberg at mkellenb@nd.edu

“Evening Machines” Gregory Alan Isakov Label: Suitcase Town Music Tracks: “Berth,” “Caves,” “Chemicals” If you like: Blind Pilot, Iron & Wine, Matthew and the Atlas

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Ranking Spotify playlists Claire Rafford News Writer

Any Spotify user has been there. Sick of listening to the same four songs on repeat, we venture over to the “Browse” tab to select a new playlist with a catchy name and artsy cover photo. These mixes can seem like a blessing in the face of a musical rut. Still, with so many options, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of tunes that we have at our fingertips. So, because of both procrastination and desperation to think of a column topic, I followed approximately 35 playlists created by Spotify and attempted to rank the most memorable.

7. “Teen Party” Barely relevant enough to be ranked, “Teen Party” earns its No. 7 spot due to the fact that I want a space to rant about it. The myriad of problems with this playlist begin with the fact that Ross Lynch, one of the least significant names in pop music, is the featured artist, and the issues just grow from there. The songs are trite and overplayed, and despite the fact that it claims to be a “Halloweenthemed” playlist, Bobby Pickett’s “Monster Mash” does not make a single appearance. In my book, that is unforgivable.

6. “Chillin’ on a Dirt Road” Country isn’t my favorite genre, but this collection happens to include every single country song that I’ve ever liked, such as catchy, sound-of-summer hits from Sam Hunt, Thomas Rhett and Zac Brown Band. Points are deducted, however, because Mason Ramsey (Walmart yodeling kid) is on here. Enough said.

5. “This is: ‘Hamilton’” In my research for this column, I followed approximately 15 of my favorite artists who have “This Is” playlists, and “This is: ‘Hamilton’” came out on top. Not only does it include the acclaimed hip-hop soundtrack of the musical, but also the “Hamilton Mixtape” and some of Lin Manuel Miranda’s best “Hamildrops.”

Aptly named, the playlist includes the show’s album, as well as the remixes inspired by the original art, demonstrating what “Hamilton” truly is and means to modern culture.

4. “This is: Aretha Franklin” Fine, I take back my earlier comment. Aretha’s best is too good not to include. I don’t really have much to say about this one except that it’s almost as perfect as Aretha herself. A combination of her most iconic songs, most notably “Respect” and “Think,” and more obscure ones, like her cover of “Let it Be” by The Beatles, it is a feminist power mix for the ages.

3. “Songs to Sing in the Car” Perhaps the most precisely titled playlist on this list, “Songs to Sing in the Car” evokes the carefree, upbeat feeling of driving with music blasting on the radio. In addition to classic feel-good tunes, the playlist includes a myriad of songs about driving, such as “Life is a Highway,” “Take Me Home, Country Roads” and “Drive My Car.” Spotify was dedicated to the theme here, and I appreciate it.

2. “All Out ’60s” Similar to the “This Is” series, Spotify created “All Out” playlists for every decade since the 1950s. I listened to all of them, and I am pleased to report that the bright beats of 1960s hits came out on top. This compilation includes the best of the era, with classics from The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and more. I hardly skipped any songs while listening, which is a testament to the quality of the music.

1. “Have a Great Day!” There was no chance that this playlist wouldn’t be ranked No. 1 when I started this venture. Though mostly throwbacks from the likes of ABBA, Paul Simon and more, this mix also includes some more recent upbeat tunes from Andy Grammer, fun. and others. If you start your day with this playlist, you’re practically guaranteed to indeed have a great day.

Contact Claire Rafford at crafford@nd.edu The views expressed in this Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

How was your fall break?

Joe Nolan Inversions

This is a proposal for stationing people experiencing homelessness in South Bend outside our campus dining halls as a method for a more holistic educational experience at Notre Dame. The homeless people would stand at the doors of North and South Dining Halls, holding signs like they do at street corners, begging for money like they will in the real world. In my imagination, this will be a paid position, as the students will not actually be meant to give money to these people. Rather, their installment in front of buildings (which, I argue, claim to isolate intellectual activity from the reality of the human body) is needed to compensate for the intellectual bias that warps character formation at Notre Dame.

The problem with the university dining hall is representative of the problem with universities in general.

The structure of a university espouses, as its premise, a dualism between the life of the world and the life of the mind. All meals are covered in advance. Housing is systematized. The commute is negligible. Employees do our chores and our shopping so that no practical exigency can be said to distract us from our goal: exploring our intellectual interests and capacities. All worldly problems are solved to isolate and exercise the intellect.

This format, although necessary for the development of the mind in a chaotic world, tends toward a mind-world dualism that is problematic for Catholics. The practice of going to a university to think about life and how to solve social problems (if that may be considered Notre Dame’s offer) fosters the illusion that the truth of life and social problems is primarily found through maintaining an academic distance from these objects of reflection.

To the contrary, Notre Dame certainly believes that social problems, if they are studied in the classroom, must also be encountered.

The current solution mitigates the idealist tendency with “experiences” that puncture the exclusively cerebral fabric of a four-year experience. For example, students spend Fall Break serving the poor communities of Appalachia, or a summer at an ISSLP. The efficiency of this

system is commendable.

Students get to experience poverty and international affairs in the flesh, while simultaneously bolstering resumes (we should not be skeptical of this simply because a resume is involved, for ND’s mission is not just to form leaders, but also to send them to high places to make a great difference). Further, in my experience, Notre Dame masterfully integrates these experiences back into the clean and safe academic environment by requiring reflection papers and followup classes. In this way, the experience is grafted into the intellectual sphere.

However, this system is not perfect. Its format, too, plays into the mind-world dualism.

The “experience” still happens “out there,” off-campus.

And it is neatly scheduled when school is not in session, in the gaps of the academic year. Again, I do not contest the logic of this — it is a practical necessity. I merely want to suggest that, in the same way that the current compensatory measures fail to break into the territory of Notre Dame’s physical campus, fail to upset the autarky of the registrar’s calendar, perhaps Appalachia and ISSLP fail to meaningfully pierce the ideal frame from which Notre Dame students view the world.

What is this ideal frame?

It is a view of the world that abstracts the moral life away from its quotidian reality.

The field of good and evil is apotheosized into some grand arena, where only slick career-engineering can gain access. Thus, seniors may say things like “I want to go to law school to change public policy” or “I want to give two years to ACE before I go to grad school,” but never “I want to study law because I love the law;” never “I want to do ACE because it will be good for my soul.” Good is ordinarily seen as something “out there.” It may be achieved or not achieved, but it certainly never pierces into the person. On the other hand, for a St. Thomas More or a Theodore Hesburgh, greatness was more a function of their daily heroism than a cerebral calculation of the good, their noteworthy cerebrums notwithstanding.

To what extent are we training a sort of Catholic schizophrenia? We imbibe narratives of personal fulfillment through doing the good, but the campus organizes “doing the good” somewhere beyond the mind,

beyond the self. If the form of learning has any pedagogical relevance, there must be effective measures against an American solipsism that chases its own tail. To paint this cultural habit with Catholic colors by delusively calling one’s tail “the good,” is not quite sufficient.

The Center for Social Concerns is already fighting this battle, and that is a point of pride for many of us. But providing extracurricular experiences does not pierce the undifferentiated plane of an ideal campus life; it merely affirms the dualism inscribed there. One way to resist this dualist fallacy is to offer students controlled, planned encounters with homeless people within the school year, within the campus, within the intimacy and security of the academic experience. The goal is not to upset the peace of campus life. Again, peace is a necessary condition for intellectual exploration. The idea is simply to educate a responsible intellectual framework.

Rather than experiencing a back and forth between the realm of introspection and the realm of reality, a student, book in hand, before the presence of a homeless man on campus would probably encounter evil in a way that plunges deeper than “what can I do to help?”

This may seem an inhuman instrumentalization of the poor. I concede the instrumentalization bit: It would use people’s experiences of poverty as a pedagogical tool for the edification of Notre Dame students. But if paying South Bend’s homeless to be a prop for our education is inhuman, what is an ISSLP? What will Notre Dame students fall back on when their idealist mirage shatters? They will follow their training: take a step back, try to create some academic distance, analyze what went wrong and why and redirect action accordingly. Notably, the training is not: personal conversion, habits of virtue, a life of prayer, etc., with the hope that out of this hothouse of good, good may spring. Because you’re supposed to figure that out on your Fall Break.

Joe Nolan is a struggling writer. If you have an extra meal swipe, please contact him at jnolan6@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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JOMO: ‘Joy of missing out’ Fr. Joe Corpora Campus Ministry

I had never heard the word FOMO until about a year ago. In a conversation, someone said the word FOMO and I asked what that word meant. He explained, “Fear Of Missing Out.” My immediate response was, “I like JOMO,” which I defined as the “Joy Of Missing Out.” I don’t know how young people do it today. I admit to using my iPhone a lot, probably too much. I am guilty of looking at emails and text messages at all the wrong times: while driving a car, listening to a homily (not my own!), during dinner with other CSCs and lots of other inappropriate times and places. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa.

My saving grace, however, is that I am not on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or any of the vast array of anti-social media. I have renamed social media to anti-social media since so much of it is attacking and slamming other people. It is anything but social. I am so grateful that I don’t get all those constant news feeds.

One thing after another. I watch young people as they walk around campus, and they just keep scrolling to the next newsfeed, whatever it is. Somehow all the scanning, browsing, consuming must all run together. As they scroll down, the feed goes on and on. And when you get to the bottom, more is coming over the top. It’s endless. Dios mio.

Everyone seems to be deathly afraid of missing out on something — the latest party, the latest social gathering, the latest off-campus event. I ask students on a Friday afternoon what their plans are for Friday evening, and the response is often “TBD.” This is not because they haven’t heard about 10 things to go to. Rather, they don’t want to commit until they are sure that they have

examined all their options and are going to choose the best possible option because they all have FOMO. What if I go to this party in Dillon and there is a better party in Stanford? What if I go to this event in Flaherty and there’s a better one in McGlinn? And on and on.

In her testimony to Pope Francis and the members of the Synod on Young People, Faith and Vocational Discernment, Briana Santiago, a 27-year-old woman from San Antonio said, “We, young people of today, are in search, in search of the meaning of life, in search of work, in search of our path or vocation, in search of our identity. Young people dream of security, stability and personal fulfillment … of finding a place to which we feel we belong.”

She went on to explain that wounded by loneliness, family fragility and existential anxiety, we ask the Church to accompany us with “living witnesses, able to evangelize through their life.”

We acknowledge the usefulness of the “exchange of information, ideals, values and common interests,” which is possible for us through the Internet, but also how technology, used in an inhuman way, can create a misleading parallel reality that ignores human dignity.

I believe that almost all young people could have written what Briana said. Young people are truly in search of the meaning of life, in search of their path and vocation, in search of their identity. Young people are wounded by loneliness, anxiety and emptiness.

Without trivializing this, so much of it is born from FOMO. Because there is an irrational fear of missing out, young people go and go and go and rarely leave time to be alone, to be quiet, to be still, to be silent, to simply be.

I don’t know how young people keep up with themselves, especially if they have FOMO. Many years ago, I read the following quote on a bulletin board in the

kitchen of a Trappist Monastery: “People say that money is the root of all evil. This is not true. The root of all evil is our inability to be silent, to be still, to be quiet.”

Silence. Stillness. Quiet. Every great world religion prizes silence. In the Catholic tradition, we have Centering Prayer, which simply invites us to rest in the presence of God and, as the Psalm says, “Be still and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10) The Trappist monk Thomas Keating, OCSO, writes that practicing silence on a regular daily basis is like turning the radio from AM to FM. Our frequency changes, so to speak, and we learn to listen on a very different level.

If you don’t have to go to everything, to read every tweet, to respond to every Facebook post, to keep up with everything, then you will have time to rest, to be silent, to be still, to be quiet. You’ll be glad to miss out on certain events because this will provide you with the time necessary to be quiet and to be still, to rest in the presence of God. Thus, I invite the reader to think about going from FOMO to JOMO. JOMO will begin to allow for space and silence and quiet and stillness to enter our lives. And from this space you learn to listen more deeply to God. You learn to know in the depths of our being the inexhaustible, relentless love and mercy that God has for you. To not know this love and mercy and tenderness of God is the real FOMO. Join the JOMO revolution and make space to let yourself be loved and cherished by God. Fr. Joe Corpora, C.S.C., serves on the Campus Ministry Pastoral Care team and can be reached at jcorpora@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Why the porn filter won’t work Today I found out, to my shock, that I am not one of the “men of Notre Dame.” This is because I cannot, in good conscience, sign the petition to put a porn filter on Notre Dame’s Wi-Fi. The reason I won’t sign the petition is not because I am an advocate for “affront[s] to human rights,” as the men so eloquently frame pornography, but because I cannot bring myself to support a proposition that is so inadequate in addressing the issues presented, sexist in its approach to chivalry, and weakly supported by misrepresented research.

I’m not here to debate the morality of interacting with pornography, but instead, explain why the response that Students for Child-Oriented Policy (SCOP) is proposing does not tackle the issues they associate with pornography. SCOP has created a petition to install a filter on Notre Dame’s Wi-Fi network that censors the “top-25 pornographic websites” that has been signed by “1,000 [Notre Dame] students, faculty and staff.” There are thousands of websites with pornographic content on them, and porn is readily available on mainstream social-networking websites such as Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram. To argue, as SCOP does, that blocking 25 websites would “significantly erode [pornography’s] presence” on campus is ridiculous, and the logic producing this conclusion is not grounded in reality. This filter does not restrict viewing of pornography on cellular data, which will inevitably take place. By arguing that the censorship of porn will be seen as an “enduring message that pornography is destructive and exploitive,” SCOP seems to be implying that Notre Dame students view pornography with absolutely no knowledge of Christianity’s sweeping condemnation of the practice.

I’d proffer that ineffectual anti-porn propaganda is useless to a population that is already profoundly aware of Catholic disapproval.

The “men of Notre Dame” make a claim in their fourth paragraph, stating that, because the average age when one is first exposed to porn is between 9 and 11, “pornography is the new sex education.” This assertion

fascinates me, as the only sex education I ever received in my Michigan public middle school was abstinence; condoms, birth control and the way sex actually works were never mentioned. Twenty-seven states mandate stressing the importance of abstinence, but only 18 states require education on contraceptives. It’s no wonder that kids are educated about sex through pornography! This is the deeply unfortunate consequence of policies that keep people in the dark about sex.

The most egregious point, however, is that the appeal for a filter is based on SCOP’s desire “to eliminate sexual assault and sexual abuse on … campus.” I’m sorry, but this conclusion is irrational and hyperbolic. I understand, from the source that the “women of Notre Dame” provide, that there is a demonstrated positive correlation between sexual aggression and frequent pornography consumption, but, to be cliche, correlation is not causation. To say that pornography is the “root of [a] culture of perversion and degradation” rather than a direct product of such a culture ignores the indecencies that women have suffered throughout history in the absence of porn. Pornography may be an ugly reminder of our too-often impersonal and unequal society, but it is certainly not the cause of our culture’s ailments. It is not as if rape and sexual assault only came to exist in the modern era (in the presence of pornography); in this way, its absence on campus will not end sexual assault (once again I am compelled to mention the fact that this petition will not curb pornography consumption on campus by any means). If the consumption of pornography were really the main culprit in sexual violence, then I believe more universities would be having this conversation.

This campaign, started by the “men” and followed up by the “women,” was purposefully staged to reinforce stereotypes of male chivalry and the idea that men must rescue women from the dangers of the world (oftentimes, other men). Perpetuating the stereotype that men must save women, as SCOP is doing with this porn campaign, devalues the very real contributions women

can and do make toward their own agency in the world.

Why divide the letters based on gender, if not to preserve these traditional roles? The onus for change in our society should not be placed on some token action of chivalry, but should be based on comprehensive, collaborative reform. This division of the sexes, as demonstrated by these two letters, is dangerous and corrupts the message of equality to which SCOP appears to subscribe.

These letters are also littered with misrepresentation of facts. The “men” make a claim that “56 percent of divorce cases involve ‘one party having an obsessive interest in pornographic websites.’” Upon checking the source, I was directed to an informational synthesis on marripedia.org (run by the Marriage and Religion Research Institute). The claim had been taken from the transcribed 2005 senate testimony of Dr. Jill Manning.

The informal survey details a polling of 350 Chicagoarea marital lawyers at a conference, of which 62 percent said “the Internet had been a significant factor in divorces they had handled” in the previous year. Of that 62 percent, 56 percent said that the “obsessive” consumption of internet porn was a factor in the divorce cases they handled. With some simple math, we can calculate the actual percentage of cases involving porn, which is around 34 percent, rather than 56 percent. This adulteration of information is most certainly not SCOP’s fault, but it is worrisome that they blindly grabbed their information from such a biased source.

Instead of creating ineffectual policies against pornography, our campus should focus on the real issues that create a market for pornography and a culture that promotes rape, sexual assault and the inferiority of women. By attacking pornography, SCOP runs the risk of treating the symptoms, while allowing the disease of misogyny to fester.

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Crossword | Will Shortz

Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Consider the personal changes you want to make. Someone’s enthusiasm will lead you to believe that help is being offered, but don’t be misled. You are the one who will be doing the work. Pace yourself and make reasonable plans to avoid falling short of your expectations. Common sense and the wherewithal to adapt to challenges will lead to victory. Your numbers are 5, 12, 22, 29, 33, 37, 43.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Go over what’s been said and done. Look to someone you trust to fill you in on particulars that may change a decision you want to make. Call in a favor or collect an old debt. Live up to your promises.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Time is on your side. Refuse to let anyone push you into something before you are ready. Set the pace that feels comfortable and savor every moment. Change that you initiate will far outweigh what others push on you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The changes others make will affect you. You may not be able to change someone’s mind, but you can protect your interests by keeping your distance and taking detailed notes as to your whereabouts and dealings. Honesty will be crucial.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): An emotional situation will draw your attention and help you work through some problems you face. Physical improvements will make you feel good and result in a compliment from someone special. A romantic evening will enhance your personal life.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Take time to think matters through before you proceed.

How you handle others will determine what transpires. If you don’t agree with someone, walk away without getting into a dispute. Do something physically challenging to ease stress.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t trust what you hear. Go to the source and get the facts firsthand. Once you know what you are up against, you’ll outshine anyone who wants to step on your toes. You’ll gain respect by doing what’s right.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Take a day trip or go someplace or do something that makes you happy or that you find entertaining. This will help your overall attitude. Don’t feel obligated to let someone control what happens in your life.

Do what’s best for yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A big heart and big plans will keep you busy.

Trying to help others while keeping up with your responsibilities will be challenging. Don’t let the little things or someone trying to start a fight get to you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Keep your emotions hidden when dealing with someone you cannot trust. You’ll be given a false impression by someone who wants something from you. A busy schedule will make it difficult for others to put demands on you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Make alterations at home that will improve your life and please the ones you love. Personal gain is apparent if you make an adjustment to the way you use what you know and the skills and services you have to offer.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Put your energy into something constructive. If you allow someone to make you angry, you’ll waste time that should be used to hone skills or develop something that will help you get ahead. Choose your battles wisely.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Keep looking forward. What’s behind you is over and done with; it can’t be changed, but what’s ahead can define who you are and what you can do moving forward. A joint venture will pay off and change your life forever.

Birthday Baby: You are benevolent, quick-witted and dynamic. You are innovative and proactive.

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Tiger Woods is successfully back Jack Jenkins Sports Writer

Tiger Woods has been one of the most prominent athletes in the 21st century, accomplishing things in golf that no other player had ever accomplished. He was on pace to not only beat Jack Nicklaus’ major record of 18, but destroy it. But out of nowhere in 2009, his sex scandal was released to the public, which hurt his personal life, and then the injuries started to pile up. In 2014, he started witnessing the back issues, and then before you know it, he went through four back surgeries in the span of three years, only playing in one tournament during the 2016 and 2017 seasons. Stuck on 14 majors and 79 career wins, it seemed as if Woods’ career might be coming to an end. Even Nick Faldo, a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, told reporters that Tiger had said at the 2017 Masters dinner, where he didn’t play, that he was done. “He said ‘I’m done, my back is done.’ He was in agony, he was in pain, the pain down his legs, there was nothing enjoyable.

He couldn’t move.”. However, in 2017, Tiger posted a video on social media of him pitching golf balls and captioned it, “Dr. gave me the ok to start pitching.” This immediately got the golfing world heated up for another Tiger comeback, but many knew that this would probably be his last comeback, and if Tiger re-injured his back, it would all be over.

The start of the 2018 season had a different buzz with the return of one of the best golfers of all time.

Fans were eager to see if there was still any magic left. Early on, Tiger continued to say he was just happy to be competing again.

But Tiger showed signs that he could still compete at the highest level, losing by one shot at the Valspar Championship in early March. The astonishing thing is the Valspar Championship on Sunday had a higher TV rating than the 2017 U.S. Open, which can only explain one thing: Tiger Woods is back in red on Sunday, with a chance to win. As fans and the golfing world desperately wanted to see Tiger Woods hoist another trophy for the first time in five years, Woods kept knocking on the doorstep, but couldn’t deliver. Having chances to win at the British Open and PGA Championship, Tiger was proving that he was right there and still one of the best golfers in the world.

While it was remarkable for him just to be competing at such a high level again after the four back surgeries and not being able to walk less than a year ago, a win would complete the comeback for real.

The Tour Championship is the last golf tournament of the 2018 season, which consists of the top30 players on tour for the season.

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Tiger went on to say that he was just proud that he made it to the Tour Championship — there isn’t a exemption for it, you have to earn your way there. Tiger went on to start his tournament with a 65 and 68, which put him right at the top of the leaderboard with a solid chance to win the tournament with a good weekend, and on Saturday that is exactly what he did. I remember watching his Saturday round at a bar with my friends, and it was one of the most incredible things I have ever seen.

He birdied six out of his first seven holes, including five in a row. The whole bar was going nuts, people screaming at the TV whenever he made a birdie. That is an effect that most golfers will never have on a fan base. Whether you were a fan of golf or not, people were rooting for Tiger, desperately wanting him to win after everything that he has been through and after everyone writing him off, saying his career was over. Tiger ended up shooting a 65 on Saturday and had a threeshot lead going into the final day.

The sporting world was set for a Tiger Woods victory on that Sunday in late September, and he delivered with a steady round of 71.

But the scene on the 18th fairway said it all. As Tiger walked up the 18th hole with a two-shot lead, the gallery stormed the course and followed Tiger all the way up to the green, as if it was his own personal army. As Tiger tapped in his par to secure his 80th victory on the PGA tour, his hands went in the air as the crowd erupted all over the golf course. You could see the emotion in his face as he hugged his caddie, trying to hold back tears and saying, “I can’t believe I’ve won the Tour Championship.”

What makes this comeback so improbable was that a year before his victory he wasn’t able to even get out of bed some days, his old age competing against a younger core of players and remaking a swing that would be compatible with his back. Even all the analysts and other spectators said you will never see anything great from Tiger again. Brandel Chamblee, a golf analyst, said he wouldn’t be able to compete against the young core players today. Tom Watson, eight-time major-winning player, said Woods would be nothing more than a ceremonial golfer. Even close friend Michael Jordan said he “Will not be great again.” These are only a few of the doubters. But Tiger proved them all wrong and completed one of the best comebacks in not only golf, but in all of sports, and will be looking to keep proving people wrong in 2019.

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Red Sox beat Dodgers in Los Angeles to take Series kids, that’s what it’s all about,” Price said. “This is why I came to Boston.”

Alex Cora’s team romped to a 17-2 start and a club-record 108 wins, then went 11-3 in the postseason, dispatching the 100-win New York Yankees and the 103-victory and defending champion Houston Astros in the playoffs. Cora became the first manager from Puerto Rico to win a title and just the fifth rookie manager overall.

Pearce, the Series MVP, hit a two-run homer on Clayton Kershaw’s sixth pitch. Solo homers by Mookie Betts in the sixth inning and J.D. Martinez in the seventh quieted the crowd, and Pearce added a solo drive off Pedro Baez in the eighth.

“We are a bunch of grinders,” Pearce said, “and this is exactly where we knew we were going to be.”

Pearce, a June acquisition from Toronto, had three homers and seven RBIs in the final t wo games of the Series.

After losing to Houston

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LOS ANGELES — Chris Sale’s final pitch for this Boston juggernaut triggered a celebration on the Dodger Stadium infield, among thousands of fans who made their way to California — and even outside Fenway Park back home.

The quest is complete. Yes, these 2018 Red Sox really are that great.

A team to remember from top to bottom. A season to savor from start to finish.

David Price proved his postseason mettle, Steve Pearce homered twice and Boston beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 on Sunday to finish off a one-sided World Series in five games.

A tormented franchise during decades of frustration and despair before ending an 86year championship drought in 2004, the Red Sox have become baseball’s team of the century with four titles in 15 seasons.

“Seeing all these grown men over there, just acting like

in Game 7 last year by the same 5-1 score, the Dodgers became the first team ousted on its home field in consecutive World Series since the New York Giants by the New York Yankees at the Polo Grounds in 1936 and ‘37.

Los Angeles is still looking for its first championship since 1988.

“Ran up against a ver y good ballclub. And just a little bit too much for us,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.

Boston won its ninth title, t y ing the Athletics for third-most behind the Yankees (27) and Cardinals (11). A ll that stood bet ween the Red Sox and a sweep was an 18-inning loss in Game 3, the longest World Series game ever. They trailed 4-0 in the seventh inning of Game 4 when ace Chris Sale rose from the dugout bench for a fier y, profane, motivational rant, and his teammates woke up in time to rally for a 9-6 w in. Boston never trailed in Game 5.

NBA | Warriors 120, nets 114

Curry leads Warriors past Nets to 120-114 win Associated Press

PHOENIX — Shorthanded Los Angeles gave LeBron James his first victory as a Laker with a 131-113 romp over the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night.

James f lirted with what would have been his 74th career triple-double, finishing with 19 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds before sitting out the fourth quarter.

Lance Stephenson had 23 points, eight rebounds and eight assists, JaVale McGee added 20 points, and Kyle Kuzma 17 for the Lakers.

They had seven players in double figures.

The Suns’ Devin Booker had 23 points, seven rebounds and seven assists but left the game in the third quarter with a strained left hamstring. Deandre Ayton, the No. 1 overall pick this year, had 22 points and 11 rebounds.

Los Angeles was without Rajon Rondo and Brandon

Ingram for their roles in an altercation with the Houston Rockets on Saturday night.

Wednesday night was the first of a three-game suspension for Rondo and a four-game suspension for Ingram.

But the Lakers didn’t miss them in this one, blowing it open with a 44-point second quarter.

Neither team led by more than six points in the first quarter and the Suns were down only 46-41 after Isaiah Canaan’s driving layup with 7:09 left in the half.

But Phoenix committed four turnovers in a 17-2 Los Angeles outburst that put the Lakers up 63-43 on Josh Hart’s running dunk with 3:51 left in the first half.

The Lakers led 76-54 at the break and Phoenix never got closer than 16 in the third quarter.

Tip-ins Lakers: James has five fewer triple-doubles than

Wilt Chamberlain. James has three triple doubles in his career against Phoenix. ... Los Angeles outscored Phoenix 44-24 in the second quarter. ... Stephenson scored 12 points in the first half on six of seven shooting. ... Lakers have won four straight in Phoenix after losing 11 in a row there. ... Like Ayton, current Lakers broadcaster and former player Mychal Thompson was born in the Bahamas and was the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA (by Portland).

Suns: Booker fell two points shy of becoming the first Suns player to score 25 points or more in the first four games of a season since Charlie Scott in 1972-73. ... Phoenix has lost its last three games by 28, 20 and 18 points. ... Ayton found himself defending James oneon-one twice in the second half. James missed a 3 the first time and drove for a layup, which rimmed out, on the second.

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The Irish put several shots on goal, but were unable to even the contest heading into the second period.

Duluth was quick to extend its lead, as the Bulldogs scored a little over two minutes into the second period.

Despite several power-play opportunities, the Irish failed to cut into the lead and headed into the locker room down two goals before the final frame. W hile a slap shot goal from senior defenseman Bobby Nardella gave the Irish a glimmer of hope in the third period, the Bulldogs cemented their victory when Jackson Cates scored a power play goal with just under nine minutes left to play.

Duluth won the final game of the series 3-1.

Irish head coach Jeff Jackson was disappointed in the two losses, but said he ultimately saw improvement in his squad over the weekend.

“Any time you lose two at home it’s disappointing, you know,” Jackson said. “I certainly respect the level of competition we were playing and making that statement.

But, you know, I think I’ve told you guys this before, this is going to be a work in progress. And I think, you know, there was probably a lot of false confidence coming out of the last weekend. You know, because last weekend,

the goaltending the second night for them [NebraskaOmaha] was not very good.

You know, I think even our confidence was a little higher than it should have been.”

Jackson said this “false confidence” might have also come from the team’s No. 1 ranking, while those rankings are always in f lux at the beginning of a season.

“Being ranked No. 1, I just kind of raise my eyebrows, you know, this time of the year. But Duluth is a great team,” he said. “They’re potentially the best team in the country, and they played that way for two-straight games. I thought we were better tonight [Saturday]. I thought we did a much better job with the puck. [On Friday night] we caused ourselves a lot of problems by turning the puck over. The score, [Friday night], it was not indicative of the game, in my opinion.

[Saturday night’s] score was probably a little more indicative — the power play could have made that game interesting for us, but they struggled tonight.”

Jackson was especially pleased with the performance of some of the younger guys on the squad, and he stressed the need for consistency moving forward.

“The freshman line did a really nice job tonight playing in a second-line goal,” he said. “You know, and the young defensemen are coming around, too. I think they

have their mistakes that they made, but so do our upperclassmen. So for the most part, you know, I think that my biggest concern will be depth scoring, and I knew that going into the season and I think we’re starting to see that a little bit now. The game against Providence was probably our best game as far as how we have to play, and I think [Saturday night] might have been our second-best game. I thought last weekend, regardless of the scores, I thought we played well at times, but we need to learn how to play at a high level consistently.”

After a discouraging series, Jackson said it is important the squad moves on and learns from a team like Minnesota-Duluth.

“You know, we’ve got to recover,” he said. “I think that you play these teams for a reason, and hopefully you learn from them. We could learn some interesting things from Duluth and the we way they play the game.

I’m hoping that guys are energized to come in and have a good week of practice. So this whole first half is going to be about one step at a time, the process. Our young guys I thought did pretty well tonight. Our older guys got frustrated a little bit, because they’re accustomed to having success.”

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Senior defenseman Bobby Nardella handles the puck and surveys the ice during Notre Dame’s 2-1 loss to Minnesota-Duluth on April 7.

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Irish senior Joe Wegwerth waits for the puck during Notre Dame’s 2-1 loss to Minnesota-Duluth on April 7 at the Excel Energy Center.

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Pitt (7-10-0,2-6-0) defender, but went just wide of the post.

In the second half, Notre Dame found another opportunity on goal in the 61st minute when an Irish counter led to a shot from inside the box by junior midfielder Jack Casey. The shot was blocked however, and the game remained tied heading into the final half hour.

With the clock winding down, the Irish finally broke the deadlock in the 85th minute. After winning a free kick in the latter third of the field, MacLeod kicked the ball into the box. His pass was met by a Pitt defender who headed it into the center of the box,

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which was in turn def lected off another Pitt defender and fell to Notre Dame senior forward Thomas Ueland.

Ueland took a first-touch shot that def lected off a defender and into the right side of the net, just past Pitt’s freshman goalkeeper Johan Penaranda.

With the goal, Ueland netted his sixth tally of the season — tied for the most on the team alongside fifth year defender Patrick Berneski — and his 14th career goal.

The late game-winner for the Irish came from a set piece, a situation Notre Dame has thrived in this year, with 13 of the team’s 27 goals coming from spot kicks.

Notre Dame will now head into the first round of the ACC Tournament, facing Clemson on Wednesday night at Alumni Stadium.

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Irish junior Senan Farrelly makes a play on the ball during Notre Dame’s 2-1 loss in overtime to Indiana University on Sept. 11 at Alumni Stadium. The overtime defeat marked Notre Dame’s first loss of the year.

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Irish junior midfielder Jack Casey winds up to kick the ball during Notre Dame’s 4-1 win over Xavier on Sept. 25 at Alumni Stadium.

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nd HOCKEY | UMD 3, ND 2; UMD 3, ND 1

ND drops two to Minnesota-Duluth at home

By CONNOR MULVENA Associate Sports Editor

In a rematch of last season’s national championship, this time on No. 1 Notre Dame’s home ice, the Irish fell t w ice to the Bulldogs of No. 3 Minnesota-Duluth in what was a notably physical series.

On Friday night, in Notre Dame’s home opener, the Irish (3-2-1) got off to a slow start, but so did the Bulldogs.

Neither squads managed to slot one in the first period, and the game moved into the second at 0-0. Then, roughly four minutes into the second period, Minnesota-Duluth (6-1-1) drew first blood. But Notre Dame was quick to respond, as junior defenseman and captain Andrew Peeke scored his first goal of the season on a power play.

Shortly after Peeke’s goal, sophomore for ward Colin Theisen put the Irish up one w ith his third goal of the season.

Despite holding a one-goal lead heading into the third, the Irish were unable to

hold off Duluth’s comeback efforts. A little more than 12 minutes into the final frame, Duluth tied the game, and the Bulldogs went on to claim the lead w ith 3:55 left to play in the game. Junior goaltender Cale Morris stopped 36 of 39 shots on the night, and the Irish went 1-3 on the power play during the loss.

The Irish hoped to turn things around on Saturday and head out of the series against last season’s national champion even. But on a night when Notre Dame was 0-6 on the power play, Duluth managed to sneak out of South Bend w ith a second v ictor y.

The Bulldogs were the first to get on the board in the second matchup, as sophomore for ward Kobe Roth slotted one from the right side w ith a little over 11 minutes to play in the first period. Later on in the first, the Irish had a genuine opportunit y to tie it up as a power play afforded them a 4-on-3 opportunit y. see HOCKEY PAGE 10

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Irish senior forward Dylan Malmquist handles the puck and surveys the ice during Notre Dame’s 2-1 loss to Minnesota-Duluth at the 2018 National Championship on April 7 at the Excel Energy Center.

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Irish cap ACC season with Squad struggles in final tourney victory over Panthers Observer Sports Staff

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No. 23 Notre Dame capped off its first regular season under head coach Chad Riley on Saturday w ith a 1-0 w in at Pitt. The Irish finish the season w ith a 9-5-2 record and a 4-3-1 record in ACC play, good enough to secure the No. 5 seed in the ACC tournament.

It was a quiet opening to the match, as the first 45 minutes generated only one shot on target from both teams. In the 21st minute, Pitt freshman defender Nyk Sessock sent in a cross that was stopped by junior Irish goalkeeper Duncan Turnbull before sophomore Pitt for ward Edward Kizza could connect and convert the chance.

The best first half opportunit y for the Irish came in the 24th minute when a low cross from senior for ward Sean MacLeod was almost def lected into the goal by a

Notre Dame finished 17th overall at the 2018 Landfall Tradition at the Country Club of Landfall in Wilmington, North Carolina on Sunday.

With tough conditions to deal with on the Dye Course of the Country Club of Landfall this weekend, seniors Isabella DiLisio and Emma Albrecht managed to bear down, each shooting a 77 in the last round. Their scores lead the team for Sunday. Junior Mia Ayer and sophomore Abby Heck shot 78 in that same round to help the Irish put up a fight as the tournament came to a close.

Heavy rain on Saturday resulted in the first round on Friday being concluded on Saturday morning, with the second round later in the afternoon. The Irish shot scores of 310 and 311, respectively, putting them in 18th place heading into the final round Sunday.

Duke won the tournament, finishing with a final score of 879, which left the Blue Devils 15over par. South Carolina closed behind the Blue Devils, shooting

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Irish sophomore midfielder Aiden McFadden avoids a defender during Notre Dame’s 2-1 loss to Indiana on Sept. 11.

a final score of 881, which left them 17-over par. Arkansas finished just one stroke behind the Gamecocks of South Carolina, finishing the tournament with an 18-over par 882. Notre Dame finished with a final score of 931, which left the Irish 67-over par.

The Irish finished in front of only University of North Carolina Wilmington, who were one stroke behind the Notre Dame.

Individually for the Irish, Albrecht shot a 14-over par 230, the best score for the Irish this weekend. Heck shot a 17-over par 233, DiLisio and Ayer shot a 18-over par 234, and freshman Claire Albrecht shot a 39-over par 255. Emma Albrecht finished atop the leaderboard for the Irish, as she placed tied for 48th on the individual leaderboard.

Virginia Elena Carta of Duke finished atop the individual leaderboard with an even-par 216.

With the Landfall Tradition concluding the fall season, the Irish will be idle until Feb. 18, when they will head to Melbourne, Florida for the Moon Golf Invitational hosted by Louisville.

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the differences between his freshman year, when the Midshipmen beat the Irish and he made a career-high 12 tackles, and now.

“I’m just proud of my defense and my offense just as a team, being able to get this win,” he said. “I know we challenged each other before the game, just to stay together, to lay your heart on the line for your teammates. I have guys like Te’von [Coney], Dex, Ian, putting their hearts on the line. It’s really just about these guys here. This is what I’ll remember the most.”

Offensively, Notre Dame continued to march down the field behind the performances of the receiving unit of Claypool, seniors Chris Finke and [tight ends] Alizé Mack and sophomore Cole Kmet, before Book handed the ball back off to senior running back Dexter Williams for two more touchdowns.

Williams credited the offensive line with opening up the gaps to allow him to score.

“Well, today, just being out there with the offensive line, they were creating holes for me,” he said. “Also just being patient, just letting them set up the blocks, then I made the right cut, just really running hard for them because I know they’re going to block hard for me.”

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first drive and marched 73 yards down the field to score on the following drive.

Book’s style isn’t one that draws lots of attention, but it’s one that is remarkably effective. The California native passed for 330 yards and two touchdowns in his home state, picking up an additional 50 yards on the run.

There were no spin moves and no stiff arms as he dove to gain more yardage. There were no Hail Mary passes to add more points to the scoreboard as time expired, nor were there miraculous tosses made as Book barely evaded oncoming defenders.

And yet, his stats are admirable, comparable to the best of the best — granted, against a defense that has been struggling throughout the season. He finished the night sack-free, a combination of the efforts of the Irish offensive line and his agility and ability to think on his feet. Book is an example of a raw talent who has been groomed into an extremely skilled quarterback, courtesy of quarterbacks coach Tom Rees.

While people weren’t looking, Book has become one of the most dangerous quarterbacks in the country. He’s

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These two drives to put the Irish up 27-0 heading into the half. Three times in the second quarter, Book converted on fourth down, either by hitting a slot receiver or creating with his feet to get the extra downs to keep the play alive.

But the 27-point lead wouldn’t remain for long, as Navy came storming out of the tunnel to open the half with a 58-yard run by junior quarterback Malcolm Perry.

Abey eventually put the Midshipmen on the board following a one-yard rush to the end zone.

“Any time we play Navy, it is a chore for preparation,” head coach Brian Kelly said.

“They’re very difficult to prepare for because you’re dealing with the most efficient and effective operation relative to the triple option in all of football.”

A 30-yard field goal by Doerer gave the Irish a 23-point cushion, proving useful when Navy responded with another touchdown, this time flashing some of the arm of senior quarterback Garret Lewis, who completed a 34yard pass, the longest of the night for Lewis. Ultimately, Navy returned to Abey, who once again punched the ball in for one yard past the Irish defensive line to cut the Irish lead to 16.

With time winding down on the third quarter, the Irish added another score with a four-yard catch from Boykin, marking the first touchdown

probably not going to shred the secondary, but he’s going to march down the field in an effective enough way to give the offense a chance to score pretty reliably.

And then, of course, there are the moments when he wasn’t reliable. In the case of Saturday’s 44-22 victory over Nav y (2-6, 1-3 AAC), the only true moment in which Book tripped up, personally, was when he threw his lone interception of the game and only his fourth of the season on Notre Dame’s first offensive drive of the fourth quarter.

That turnover led to an 8-point play by the Midshipmen, as they were able to score in two plays and successfully attempt the two-point conversion.

But when Book stepped back on the field after throwing the pick, he showed why he is among the upper echelon of the current college quarterbacks: the mentally tough kind, the kind that might be able to really do something special given the opportunity (an opportunity that Book was handed midseason and has seized with both hands).

Book did what so many quarterbacks, including his predecessor under center at Notre Dame, struggled to do, and moved on from his

of the evening for Book.

Although he completed 27 of 33 passes for 330 yards, Book’s interception to open the fourth quarter — his fourth in nearly as many games — gave Navy a chance in a game that still had plenty of time remaining. The Midshipmen made the Irish pay, scoring two plays later and converting the two-point conversion to cut the lead to 37-22.

But Notre Dame responded with a eight-play, 75-yard drive that kept the Irish comfortably ahead. On third down, Book threw a 27-yard pass to Armstrong to keep the drive alive. Three plays later, a 22-yard toss to Boykin in the end zone gave the Irish the extra insurance they needed.

A Navy fumble and then an interception by junior safety Jalen Elliott on back-to-back drives guaranteed the 44-22 Notre Dame win to seal the win and the playoff hopes alive.

The significance of the 92nd meeting between the two programs was not lost on the players, as Book described the experience as an honor.

“Being able to play Navy is such an honor,” Book said.

“Obviously we have a tradition that goes way back. We have so much respect for that team. Defensively we knew they’re a good team. We had to prepare well.”

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mistake.

He once again marched the offense down the field, tearing apart the Nav y defense, one play at a time, and eight plays and 75 yards later, the Irish had secured their 44th and final point of the game.

When Book was asked postgame about his ability to brush off his mistakes (and those of his teammates, for that matter), he noted that it all comes down to confidence. Confidence in himself, in his fellow players, in the offensive schemes, in the coaches.

Essentially, Book has enabled himself to take down the most formidable opponents the Irish have faced this season, and allow him to move on when he makes mistakes.

So no, Notre Dame might not find itself replayed on everyone’s highlight reels for generations to come with Ian Book at the helm. But if Book can keep up the pace he has right now, that shouldn’t be a problem, because he doesn’t need all that razzle dazzle to bring home the win.

Contact Elizabeth Greason at egreason@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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13 7

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Notre Dame 6, navy 0

Jafar Armstrong 1-yard run (Doerer missed extra point)

9:38

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NOTRE DAME 13, navy 0

Dexter Williams 12-yard run (Doerer kick)

4:51

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NOTRE DAME 20, NAVY 0

Dexter Williams 9-yard run (Doerer kick)

7:07

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Notre dame 27, virginia tech 0

Dexter Williams 2-yard run (Doerer kick)

1:04

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NOTRE DAME 27, navy 7

Zach Abey 1-yard run (Moehrling kick)

12:56

remaining Drive: Four plays, 75 yards, 2:04 elapsed

NOTRE DAME 30, Navy 7 Doerer 30-yard field goal

8:41

remaining Drive: 11 plays, 61 yards, 4:15 elapsed

3

NOTRE DAME 30, navy 14

Zach Abey 1-yard run (Moehrling kick)

5:03

remaining Drive: Seven plays, 75 yards, 3:38 elapsed

4

NOTRE DAME 37, navy 14

Ian Book 4-yard pass to Miles Boykin (Doerer kick)

1:04

remaining Drive: 9 plays, 75 yards, 3:59 elapsed

NOTRE DAME 37, navy 22

Martin 33-yard run (Abey to Davis two pt. conversion)

12:42

remaining Drive: Two plays, 39 yards, 0:40 elapsed

NOTRE DAME 44, navy 22

Book 22-yard pass to Boykin (Doerer kick)

8:29

remaining Drive: Eight plays, 75 yards, 4:13 elapsed

statistics rushing yards 254 292

total yards 584 344

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The observer | monday, october 29, 2018 | ndsmcobserver.com

ANNA MASON | The Observer

Irish junior quarterback Ian Book drops back in the pocket and surveys the field during No. 3 Notre Dame’s 45-22 victory over Navy on Saturday at SDCCU Stadium in San Diego on Saturday. Book threw for 330 yards with two touchdowns and one interception during the victory. He was 27 for 33 passing and finished the game with a QBR of 95.7.

Taking care of business

Notre Dame got ahead early in San Diego, as senior running back Dexter Williams rushed for three touchdowns in the first half to help give the Irish a four score lead. In the second half, the Irish continued their success on offense, as senior wide receiver Miles Boykin tallied two touchdown receptions in the half as the Irish went on to win 44-22 over the Midshipmen.

ANNA MASON | The Observer

Irish graduate student Sam Mustipher gets ready to snap the ball dring No. 3 Notre Dame’s 44-22 victory over Navy on Saturday at SDCCU Stadium in San Diego The Irish remain at No. 3 in the AP poll.

ANNA MASON | The Observer

Irish senior running back Dexter Williams pushes a defender away during Notre Dame’s 44-22 victory over Navy on Saturday.

ANNA MASON | The Observer

Irish sophomore wide receiver Michael Young makes a reception during Notre Dame’s victory.

ANNA MASON | The Observer

Irish junior safety Alohi Gilman follows the ball carrier during Notre Dame’s victory over Navy.