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Dillon named Hall of the Year Dillon Hall wins award at the Hall Presidents Council leadership banquet

By KELLI SMITH Associate News Editor

The Hall Presidents Council (HPC) designated Dillon Hall the winner of HPC’s overall “Hall of the Year” award Tuesday during the Notre Dame Student Leadership Awards Banquet at Legends. Dunne Hall and Walsh Hall took home the Men’s and Women’s “Hall of the Year” awards, respectively.

Co-chairs of HPC seniors Brandon Ryan and Alyssa Lyon emphasized the strong cooperation between dorms that differentiated the competition this year.

“Halls are better when they all try to cooperate and do things together,” Ryan said.

“We really think it’s not so much about the competition

but more about how halls treated each other this year through their dorm presidents — it was a much better year than it has been in the past of inter-dorm cooperation.”

Though there was “tight competition” for all of the awards, Ryan said Dillon Hall did an incredible job at being a good candidate throughout the entire year.

“A big thing that we like to make sure is that ‘Hall of the Year’ leadership is really catering to everyone in the hall instead of just the easiest people who kind of get involved,” Ryan said. “And [Dillon] just did such a good and natural job of having so many events that were well attended and that hit so many see DILLON PAGE 5

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From left to right: Representatives from Dillon Hall, Walsh Hall and Dunne Hall accepted their awards at banquet Tuesday night.

SUB announces spring concert artist GoldLink

By NATALIE WEBER News Editor

The Student Union Board (SUB) announced Tuesday that the artist GoldLink will perform at Friday’s spring concert with MadeinTYO! as the opening act.

The SUB concert will return to the Stepan Center, after last semester’s concert featuring Quinn XCII was moved to Legend’s.

The fall concert was relocated to

accommodate for athletics, which was using the center at the time of the concert.

Junior and lead programmer of concerts Bethany Boggess said the return to the Stepan Center will allow more students to attend the show.

“The Fall Concert featuring Quinn XCII was held at Legends, which has a capacity of 629,” she said in an email. “The Spring Concert will be at Stepan Center,

and there are 2,000 tickets available. We reached capacity at Legends pretty quickly in the fall, so the larger venue will allow us to accommodate more students.”

According to the SUB website, GoldLink’s single “Crew” reached the 45th spot on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, and he was nominated for Best New Hip-Hop Artist at the iHeartRadio Music Awards.

By MARTHA REILLY News Writer

Fueled by the mindset that a Saint Mary’s education cultivates exceptional leaders equipped with the knowledge to pinpoint and respond to injustice, the College hosted a workshop addressing sexual harassment in the workplace in Stapleton Lounge on Tuesday.

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President Jan Cervelli announced a change to the Commencement stole policy Tuesday. The revised policy will begin with the 2018 Commencement, according to a press release.

Previously, the College allowed graduates to wear honors cords and medals at Commencement but did not allow stoles to be worn at the ceremony. Stoles, honors cords and medals were all allowed see STOLES PAGE 6

College hosts interreligious dialogue lecture

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SMC workshop reflects on sexual harassment Chair of the English department, Laura Haigwood, who moderated a panel discussion preceding the workshop, said the College aims to prepare students to encounter harsh social realities.

“This workshop is the brainchild of President Jan Cervelli, who wants to ensure all Belles have a toolkit for responding appropriately and effectively to

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sexual harassment, should it happen that you personally experience it,” Haigwood said.

Treating men and women with equal respect in professional spaces demonstrates respect for basic human dignity, special assistant to Cervelli, Kara Kelly, said.

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Professor Catherine Cornille spoke about the role gender plays in interfaith dialogue on Tuesday in Carroll Auditorium.

By JULIANNA McKENNA News Writer

Saint Mar y’s students are working together to create a new interfaith group on campus after recent interfaith discussions.

Sophomore A lay na Haff said the idea for the club was ignited after Interfaith Youth Core came to campus for a conference earlier this

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year. Haff discussed Better Together Day, a day that honors interfaith dialogue.

“Better Together Day is a national day of action headed by Interfaith Youth Core, a national nonprofit working towards an America where people of different faiths, world v iews and traditions can bridge div ides and find see TOGETHER PAGE 5

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Annual event fundraises for cancer research

By KARA MIECZNIKOWSKI News Writer

Notre Dame’s campus hosts an abundance of fundraisers over the course of the academic year — the Bald and the Beautiful may be one of the most well-known of these fundraisers. This annual, threeday event involves participants shaving their heads in solidarity with cancer patients, donating hair or getting colorful hair extensions in support of those with cancer.

Participants decide to donate or shave off their hair for various reasons — some have family members affected by cancer, have been donating hair all of their lives or simply feel compelled to support the cause.

Sophomore Sara Berumen said she decided to donate hair because her mother had breast cancer while she was in high school.

“I had always wanted to donate, but there was never a well-trusted organization in my city,” Berumen, who donated a foot of hair, said.

Sophomore Veronica Perez donated two feet of hair last year and additionally shaved her head for the fundraiser. She was inspired by other women on her Ultimate Frisbee team, who had done the same the year before.

“I had donated my hair several times before — to make wigs for cancer patients — but never shaved my head entirely,” Perez said.

However, many women that

decide to shave their heads are not met with full support in their communities or families, and Perez faced similar pushback when she made the decision to shave her head.

“In Guam, women really value their hair — it’s a huge part of beauty in Asian and Pacific Island culture,” she said. “My parents kept saying, ‘Your hair is so beautiful’ and ‘Are you sure you want to do this?’ up until the day I shaved my head. But I didn’t feel an attachment to my hair like they did.”

Despite some adversity, Perez said she does not regret her decision — and while many people consider shaving her head to be a bold move, she said she disagrees.

“I didn’t think it was that big of a

deal. My hair can be used for better things,” Perez said. “And I can grow it back, no problem.”

Perez raised around $1600 for the fundraiser last year. Money raised by the event are split between St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which is a national organization that funds pediatric cancer research, and the Pediatric Cancer wing of Beacon Children’s Hospital in South Bend.

The event raised over $20,000 last year, and is hoping to reach $25,000 in donations this year, Perez said.

“Personally, I don’t think donating my hair made a huge impact on the cancer fight — one foot of hair isn’t going to change the world,” Berumen said. “But on the whole, the event really does make a change because it raises

awareness, and money — not just hair — is donated as a result.”

Perez said participating in the event is well-worth it.

“Some people definitely look at you strangely when you have a shaved head, but I didn’t really care,” Perez said. “The people who shave their heads don’t care about other people’s opinions. Their whole mindset is into it.”

And now that she has short hair, Perez intends to keep it.

“The only reason I would ever grow my hair out again is because I’m too lazy to get haircuts every month,” Perez said. “Having short hair is really pretty convenient.”

Contact Kara Miecznikowski at kmieczni@nd.edu

Students participate in U.S. study abroad

By ABBY PIPER News Writer

The morning of the government shutdown, junior Megan Kamm arrived at the State Department to watch her colleagues file out of the office, announcing they were on furlough. She assumed she too would head home for the day, but as she was leaving, her director stopped her and said, “Megan, you’re not paid, — you’re staying to help out.” So, during the government shutdown, Kamm worked in an empty office with her director.

Across the country in Santa Clara, California, the CEO of Thryve told junior Jonathan Xu, the company has, “one bullet in the chamber” and everyday he needs to hustle and get things done. Everything Xu contributes to Thryve has a direct impact on both the customers and the early-stage company.

Kamm and Xu are two of the Notre Dame juniors who chose to spend their spring semesters

participating in the domestic Notre Dame programs in Washington and Silicon Valley, respectively.

The Notre Dame students at Menlo College in Palo Alto, California and UCDC in Washington D.C. have been balancing a full course load while also interning for various companies in their areas. The semester allows them to take their classroom knowledge and apply it to their particular industries.

Kamm, a political science major, now works in The Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues — a department dedicated “to include women and girls in U.S. diplomacy, partnerships, and programs,” according to the State Department website. Kamm’s eight hour work day is filled with meetings, briefings and emails. But, regardless of the exhausting hours, she says she energized by the experience as a whole.

“The experience overall has been incredibly rewarding,” Kamm said.

“Each day, I am part of a greater effort to promote the rights and

empowerment of women and girls around the world.”

Recently, Kamm says she has been working on her office’s upcoming event: The International Women of Courage Awards Ceremony. Kamm says the event will honor ten women from across the globe who have overcome great adversity to fight for gender equality and human rights in their countries.

“After months of reading and learning about their work, it was really humbling and inspiring to meet the women in person, and hear their stories,” Kamm said.

Xu, a computer science major, is immersing himself in a very different field — software engineering in Silicon Valley, the United States’ hub of innovation and design.

Specifically, Xu is spending the semester working for Thryve, a venture backed health and wellness startup.

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Notre Dame students participate in a semester of domestic study abroad in Washington D.C. or Silicon Valley.

successful, from helping out with design and marketing to customer service,” Xu said. “It’s a very small company so we are all always busy, but we also have fun.”

In addition to the team going out to lunch on Fridays, having a Wii in office and watching Netflix during lunch breaks, Xu loves the Thryve company culture.

“[It is] just regular people running a company out of an office the size of a closet, trying to make a product that delights our customers and improves their lives,” Xu said.

Xu also says that aside from his internship, the highlight of the program has been visiting the Facebook and Google offices.

“It’s nice to see a different workplace and way of life than all the consulting and banking opportunities Notre Dame students frequently emphasize,” Xu said of the visits.

When reflecting upon the program, Kamm and Xu both said the programs have been remarkable.

“If you’ve always wanted to work at a small startup and try to do something big, this [program] is a really good opportunity,” he said.

“The Bay Area is a wild wild place.

Everyone is talking about tech — on the trains people are coding.

Even a lot of the ads and highway billboards you probably won’t even understand if you don’t have some knowledge of computer science.”

“I knew I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to spend a semester in the nation’s capital, and live in such a fast-paced, vibrant city,” Kamm said of her experience. “ My colleagues do a great job at keeping focused on the big picture, and the major impact our work has on communities around the world.”

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University to begin new program in Galway

By KARA MIECZNIKOWSKI News Writer

Notre Dame International is giving students a chance to be their own “Galway Girl,” or “Galway Guy” if you prefer, with a new study abroad program in Galway City, Ireland. The first cohort of Fighting Irish, nine students in total, will be on the west coast of the Emerald Isle this coming fall.

“You’re blazing this comet,” Lisa Caulfield, the director of the Notre Dame Global Center at Kylemore Abbey, said to the inaugural group of students. “You guys are on this first comet into Galway.”

The Galway program immerses students directly into Irish society and culture. As in Dublin, students will take classes in the heart of a scenic Irish city and live on-campus at an Irish institution, in this case the National University of Ireland — Galway (NUIG).

“The college itself is in the city of Galway and you’re basically on the Atlantic,” Caulfield said. “When we go up to Kylemore [Abbey], if you climb the mountain behind us, you’ll be looking over the Atlantic.”

NUIG also offers classes for students in the College of Science, who have historically had fewer options for study abroad due to the limited programs that offer science courses. Students are taking advantage, with members of this group majoring in neuroscience, biology and pre-health, among other things. But besides classes, Caulfield says Ireland itself will teach the students a lot.

“You’ll learn through the soles of your feet,” Caulfield said. “You’ll be immersed with the Irish culture and the landscape, and the two are really intertwined.”

Studying in Galway will present a unique opportunity to explore the vibrant green landscape

and culture of western Ireland.

Cultural excursions include a “famine walk” that follows the paths of those devastated by the Great Famine, visiting a sheep farm, hiking the Aran islands and “pony trekking” on the famous Connemara ponies.

“It’s these beautiful white ponies that dot the countryside,” Caulfield said. “They’re a social and economic contribution to that area that have been there for millennia.

That’s true immersion, because you’ll be riding a pony that’s been reared in Connemara.”

While the Galway study abroad program is new, the picturesque Kylemore Abbey Global Center, about 77 km outside of Galway City, has been a part of Notre Dame students‘ experiences in Ireland for the past few years. However, this will be the first time the castle will be close to a semester-long program.

“The University of Notre Dame decided to partner with these amazing women of the Benedictine order that run the beautiful Kylemore Abbey, and we have renovated 10,000 square feet of this castle space,” Caulfield said.

“The University is a part of this beautiful castle, and we’re really lucky that we have this anchor out west now.”

NDI’s Dublin Global Gateway — the famous blue-doored O’Connell House — already attracts around 50 students a semester to Ireland, but Galway has its own charm, and a castle, Caulfield said.

“It’s such a dramatic landscape.

It’s very different from Dublin.”

Caulfield says. “I feel like Galway is actually very different from any other city, and it’s been named the European Capital of Culture for 2020, so the whole of Europe has recognized Galway for being this very cultural city.”

After doing the Ireland Inside Track, where she got to see a little bit of western Ireland and Kylemore Abbey, sophomore Jenna Koenig decided to go back for a whole semester via the new Galway program.

“In Galway, it’s really easy to feel comfortable there. It feels more intimate.” Koenig said. “I wanted to study abroad somewhere I could get to know and somewhere I could be comfortable.”

Koenig and others will be initiating the new program next fall, leading the way for other Fighting Irish to enjoy and engage in the distinct western Irish culture.

“You’re actually making history for Notre Dame,” Caulfield said to the group. “In 20 years of offering a study abroad program in Dublin, you will be the first group out west.”

Contact Kara Miecznikowski at kmieczni@nd.edu

Innovation Park offers business acceleration

By ADRIANNA FAZIO News Writer

Notre Dame’s IDEA Center, located on the third floor of Innovation Park on Angela Boulevard, is home to a plethora of whiteboards and colorful markers, Google-esque decor and people with a passion for innovation. A resource for anyone affiliated with Notre Dame, the IDEA center is transforming the way students think about entrepreneurship.

The IDEA Center is one of the many offices in Innovation Park — a building and community dedicated to collaboration and business acceleration.

Beyond the IDEA Center, the other Innovation Park residents are growing companies that are committed to meeting needs in their respective markets.

Karen Slaggert, the director of student entrepreneurship, has been leading the efforts to expand opportunities for students within the IDEA Center and Innovation Park as a whole.

In the IDEA Center, Slaggert said there are countless resources for students in any stage of the thought development process — from the inception of an idea to launching a successful company.

The Center calls the process of surrounding students with resources part of the “commercialization pipeline.”

As with any business development process, funding is an essential resource in the Center’s business-acceleration model.

“We have one more pitch event this year and I think at that point we will have given away about $50,000 to our students to work on their ideas,” Slaggert said.

Slaggert said one of the most prominent opportunities to gain access to funding is the McCloskey Business Competition, a competition for Notre Dame students, faculty

and alumni.

Slaggert said that this year the competition will offer about $400,000 in cash and prizes: $256,000 of which is cash prizes, and the rest is in-kind offers — donated services from various alumni and companies.

“The prizes are great, but the real value of the McCloskey Competition is getting help and mentoring, judges who evaluate at different stages of the competition and give them feedback,” Slaggert said.

Slaggert emphasized the importance of networking and alumni relations, both of which are at the core of the IDEA center programing.

“The one thing about Notre Dame people is that they are always willing to help. They are always willing to give back,” Slaggert said.

The IDEA Center connections proved to be especially valuable for seniors Luke Maillie and Andrew Munch, Notre Dame students who have developed wearable technology to detect the damage level of UV rays at any given moment.

Slaggert said the members of the family behind Radio Flyer — the makers of the little red wagon — are Notre Dame alumni who heard of Maillie and Munch’s creation. Instantly, they said they would love to work with the product.

“One thing that resonates with students on this campus, we believe, is that even though you might say ‘I’m not an inventor, I’m not an entrepreneur,‘ it’s safe to say that most students on this campus want to make the world a better place. They want to bring about change, and entrepreneurship and innovation is the way to do that,” Slaggert said.

In order to increase exposure to the entrepreneurship process, Slaggert has also been heavily emphasizing internship

opportunities in Innovation Park as a whole.

“Just in the IDEA center, we have hired just about 60 [interns] since last summer,” she said. “I would love to double that by placing students with other startups in the building, connecting students to other students to work on their ideas.”

To this end, the IDEA Center is creating a database to connect

students with the internships they are interested in pursuing.

“We are going to have a platform so students who want internships can post their resumes and indicate which of those groups they would be willing to intern with,” Slaggert said. ” … Once they indicate what their preferences are, their resume will be available to everyone who is hiring.”

Overall, Slaggert stressed that

all students should look into IDEA Center and Innovation Park opportunities.

“I would want students to know that they have a place they can come where countless people will do anything they can to help them figure things out,” she said. “We can help. Just come check it out.”

Contact Adrianna Fazio at afazio1@nd.edu

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Tax program informs community members

By ABBY PIPER News Writer

April 17 may not mean much to most undergraduate students, but some of these students have taken it upon themselves to participate in tax season via the Vivian Harrington Gray Tax Assistance Program (TAP), which has helped local, lowincome South Bend and Mishawaka community members fill out their federal and state tax returns since 1972, when professor Ken Milani started the program.

Colleen Creighton, associate teaching professor of accountancy and the program coordinator for TAP, became a professor and joined TAP in 2016. Creighton said participating in TAP has been a “tremendous learning experience” for her and “enlightening” for the students who volunteer.

“It is very eye-opening for a lot of people, figuring out how privileged we may be,” she

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different types of people.”

Alongside building strong community through “a diverse and impressive regimen” with events such as monthly multi-cultural discussions, Lyon said Dillon’s commitment to the greater South Bend community was its most noteworthy accomplishment — particularly with its “Red Bag Day,” in which residents send bags of utilities to the homeless, and its partnership with Dismas House of South Bend, which provides support services for individuals returning from

said. “I had one student tell me that they were looking at a tax return for a family of four, and they made just a little bit more than they made over their summer internship.”

Steffen Timmer, TAP’s student program leader, said he originally joined TAP because of the additional credits one can earn from taking the class, as students need 150 credits for the Certified Public Accountant exam. Still, he said being a part of TAP during junior and senior years has been a rewarding experience.

“I like being able to talk to people and get to know them, help them with their problems and issues, even if it’s something as little as tax returns.”

Timmer said. “It can make a big difference for these people that the program serves, because the other options like H&R Block or firms like that might charge 200 bucks or something for doing a tax return, and when your income’s not that high, that can make a

big difference.”

In the community program, undergraduate juniors and seniors studying accounting can take TAP as a two-credit pass/ fail course after they have taken Federal Taxation. First they learn the tax filing process, then from Feb. 13 to April 14 they periodically work on location in the South Bend and Mishawaka area filing taxes.

“Initially I think it’s to get the practical experience, but I think they really enjoy providing help,” Creighton said. “And most people are just so anxious for the help … the idea that someone is there to help lessen that burden is very helpful and they’re all very, very grateful.”

Creighton said the “real live client” experience is an invaluable lesson that’s difficult to learn in the classroom.

Timmer said he found that working with real-life clients helped him apply classroom concepts to the real world situations.

“You actually work with

incarceration.

“In addition to catering to a variety of resident’s needs, [Dillon] also sought to reinvigorate the spirit of its hall’s government by encouraging open forum meetings and empowering all of its residents to be leaders within the community,” she said. “This dorm truly carries out the Notre Dame mission of building self less, well-rounded residents.”

Dillon Hall president junior Danny Crooks said what makes Dillon special is that residents feel welcome in any room and with “any guy of any grade.”

“Every guy in Dillon loves Dillon,” Crooks said. “And we

had great participation at all of our events and people really get into our dorm events so I think just the spirit throughout the dorm is why we won it.”

Sophomore Chris Lehman, Dillon Hall’s vice president, said the great inter-class relationships in Dillon contributed to building that spirit.

“We just really went into this year wanting to bring the entire dorm together so our goal was just to plan a bunch of events that catered to everyone in the dorm and we’re really happy that they recognized [that],” Crooks said.

As a dorm established in 2016 taking home its first ever ‘Hall of the Year’ award, Dunne Hall president junior Peter Seidner said HPC’s recognition highlights Dunne’s theme — “everything seems impossible until it’s ‘Dunne’” — and end goal of creating a culture.

“We had the awesome opportunity of being able to start events that had never been done before compared to other dorms,” Seidner said.

“But talking to [other dorms], getting what worked for them and creating, as our dorm, our own ideas and create a platform is really what our administration did.”

By inaugurating Dunne’s signature events — the 3k relay race “Dunne Funne Run” and the “Dunne Dance Film Festival” — as well as hosting what Seidner said was the largest retreat on campus in 10 years, Dunne Hall vice presidents juniors Brendan Watts and Wynn Root said Dunne had a goal of establishing itself on the campus map.

“I think it was really important for us being a new dorm

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clients, so when you start working you have some experience of how to communicate with people and help them out,” Timmer said. “Sitting in your accounting classes you’re not getting a lot of actual interaction with people like who you’re going to be working for in the future.”

This year, the community TAP program made the shift to electronic filing. Not only did this increase efficiency, but it also benefits the clients, who get their refunds anywhere from four to six weeks sooner.

“Particularly for the community that we’re dealing with, this tax refund has a tremendous impact, so the ability to shorten that and get them their money much faster has been met with a great deal of enthusiasm,” Creighton said.

Besides the community program, TAP also includes an international program where students in Mendoza’s Master of Science in Accountancy program help international

students, scholars and faculty with their taxes.

“Most Americans have difficulty understanding their taxes, then you get somebody who’s only here for a short period of time,” Creighton. “So the International Program helps them with any US filing requirements.”

Last year, the community program did 834 returns and 1,885 returns total combined with the international program’s returns. This year, Creighton said the program is on track to fill out at least as many returns as they did last year.

“Tax returns, it’s nothing extremely challenging for us as accounting students at Notre Dame, but it’s stuff people are confused about,” Timmer said.

“People don’t know tax laws, like an accounting major would, so it’s good to use what we know to help people with that.”

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The halls awarded at the banquet prioritized their communities by encouraging event participation and hall spirit.

that we cement ourselves on the campus and I thought this was a great way to do it,” Root said. “We had a lot of signature events that won us the award so I’m really happy about it.”

Walsh Hall president senior Katie Santanello and vice president junior Erin Embrey said winning Women’s Hall of the Year wasn’t as much of a priority for Walsh going into the year.

“It’s all about making sure that everyone feels included and making sure everyone really feels that they’re involved and I think that that’s goal of Hall President’s Council programming is that we get everyone involved,” Embrey said.

As a dorm that moved into a newly-renovated building this year, Santanello said Walsh focused on inclusion as well as improving mental, physical and emotional well-being.

“Another one of our goals was re-establishing those old traditions from the old

building and then making some new ones because it’s not exactly the same,” Embrey said. “I think we had a unique opportunity to get the sophomores and freshmen who never really lived in the building involved but I think that was just part of our overall thoughts.”

As a whole, Lyon said HPC was impressed by all dorms this year but the three dorms that won were especially creative with their events.

“These three dorms really listened to what their residents wanted, thought outside the box [and] were consistent throughout the year,” she said. “There were no times of not a lot of events or not really developed events, they were just in total really consistent throughout the whole year in making sure their community is strong and that people weren’t feeling left out of it.”

Contact Kelli Smith at ksmith67@nd.edu

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in our culture, galvanized by the courageous #MeToo movement to address an issue that has, for too long, been willfully ignored — no more,” Kelly said. “Courageous women with much to lose, and many who have lost much for their resistance to this kind of abuse, have awakened us. We owe it to them, and to all who are part of our College, to root out this problem once and for all and to entrench the workplace quality that we all value.”

Kelly said the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reports that 75 percent of female employees have experienced sexual harassment.

“That’s a staggering figure that should give all of us pause,” Kelly said. “For too many women, it rings all too true. Perhaps even more telling about the workplace culture in our country, the EEOC also reports that 90 percent of those who have experienced harassment never take formal action.

It’s time to change such a chilling climate.”

Navigating instances of sexual harassment can be difficult when the term itself is prone to varying interpretations, Saint Mary’s Title IX coordinator, Kris Urschel, said.

“The formal definition is

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common values to build a shared life together,” Haff said.

The goal of Better Together Day is to raise awareness about religious diversity and dialogue across college campuses, professor Anita Houck of the Saint Mary’s Religious Studies Department said.

“It is an annual day where they invite people to sign up online and bring awareness to the fact that it’s better to have conversations with people who are different from you,” she said. “We want to learn from each other and grow from interaction with

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MadeinTYO! is known for his music video, accompanying his song “Uber Everywhere,” which garnered more than 57 million views, according to the SUB website.

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at the Baccalaureate Mass and Honors Convocation, however.

The previous policy only allowed exceptions recommended

one thing, and we keep that … front and center at all times,” Urschel said. “I think it does warrant a little bit more conversation in terms of ‘What does that truly mean?’ and ‘What does that possibly look like in the workplace?’”

Sexual harassment can prevent employees from fulfilling their assigned tasks and from producing the best quality of work, as they may struggle to feel accepted and valued as a working professional, Urschel said. “[Sexual harassment] … interferes with what we refer to as creating an intimidating or hostile work environment,” she said.

Professor of history Jamie Wagman said up to 30 percent of college-aged women and up to 70 percent of women in the workplace have been sexually harassed, and their experiences can result in negative self-perceptions, denial of employment opportunities and threats to their physical safety.

“Some states have enforced state and local-level legal protections against sexual harassment targeted at LGBTQ people, but currently 30 states have no protection,” Wagman said. “Also, transgender people are especially prone to job discrimination and sexual harassment, and they have little to no recourse.”

The field of critical race feminism may serve as a helpful

lens through which to view this issue, for it emphasizes the intersectionality of various forces at play, Wagman said.

“Racialized sexual harassment calls upon sexual stereotypes of minority women, and this harassment is present across a variety of institutions and is associated with great post-traumatic stress syndrome,” Wagman said. “As Anita Hill wrote in ‘Speaking Truth to Power,’ sexual harassment is underreported. Only three percent of instances culminate in formal complaints.”

Unwelcome or threatening behaviors disproportionately impact marginalized populations, such as women of color and individuals of a low socioeconomic class, Haigwood said.

“There’s already been lots of discussion in relation to the ‘Me Too’ movement about the situation of women in food services and hospitality services who are, for a number of reasons, more vulnerable and less able to speak out than women who are comparatively more privileged,” Haigwood said.

A work environment in which conditions of employment depend on sexual favors, physical acts or verbal requests for or innuendos to such acts perpetrates sexual harassment, Wagman said. “[Sexual harassment] can be verbal or physical,” she said.

“It also can be non-verbal.

Sexual harassment can occur in the workplace or in a learning environment, [such as in] a school or university. It can happen in many different scenarios, including after-hours conversations, exchanges in the hallways, non-office settings of employers or peers.”

S-O-S Coordinator at the Family Justice Center of St. Joseph County Amelia Thomas said individuals who have experienced unwanted sexual comments or advances have the agency to decide that they were sexually harassed.

“It doesn’t matter if someone means it in a joking manner,” Thomas said. “It’s up to victim to decide what is or is not okay. … Be cognizant of the fact that

[sexual harassment] is not based on the person’s intent.”

One major misconception surrounding sexual harassment involves the affected populations, Thomas said.

“Harassment does not always have to be directed at a specific individual,” she said.

“It can be something when you’re looking at groups, whether that’s gender or race or LGBTQ. … You can still make a report even if you’re not the direct victim. If you’re witnessing [behavior] that is offensive to you … you can still make a report, and that is considered sexual harassment.”

other people. Better Together day brings attention to this, especially by getting college age students to talk about these topics.”

Religious dialogue is an important aspect of community development, Houck said.

“Obviously the most immediate benefit is for us to engage with other interesting people and to get insights about ourselves for those of us that are religious or spiritual or just wanting to develop our own world views,” she said. “We learn so much by talking to people who see the world differently.”

She also said engaging in these types of conversations not only advances our religious

understanding, but our cultural understanding as well.

“We do this by acknowledging commonalities and differences, which allows us to see others as human beings,” Houck said. “It affects our politics, it affects our decisions about who we are going to vote for, what policies we support, the kinds of jokes we are going to make and so forth. It teaches us a lot about ourselves.

By learning from other people about how they see the world it clarifies to us about what is really important for us.”

Saint Mary’s honored Better Together Day with a lecture

by Boston College professor Catherine Cornille on “Women and Interreligious Dialogue.”

Cornille argued that women play an integral role in religious dialogue.

“Women often are the ones taking initiative to reach out to other religious traditions and because of this are able to break down barriers and are much more open and generous to recognizing truth in other religious traditions,” Cornille said.

This is formative in the mission of Saint Mary’s Better Together club, as they plan to appeal to the entire campus community, Haff said.

“Our goal for this club is to incorporate our community in working together to make everyone feel included,appreciated and understood,” she said. “We

need to be inclusive and understanding of those who are different than us.”

Haff said she believes religious dialogue is an important aspect of communication in general.

“Research has shown that when someone gets to know a person different from them, their attitudes towards that entire group also grows more positive,” she said. “By learning about other faiths and building relationships with people of different world views, we can break barriers, overcome biases and build bridges.”

campus SUB aimed to make the event more inclusive, Boggess said.

“We were incredibly intentional in our selection of the artists for this year’s concert,” she said. “Last semester, a member of the student body prompted SUB Concerts to evaluate its track record of inclusivity and representation. Not only were we able to contract artists with diverse backgrounds and

sounds, but we were able to offer tickets for only $5 to hopefully allow more students to attend.”

Leading up to the announcement, SUB used a Spotify playlist to keep students guessing about which artist would perform at the show.

“The best part of planning the concert was planning and maintaining the Spotify playlist as a means to announce the artists,”

Boggess said. “We started with 30 artists on a Spotify playlist called ‘Who’s Coming to Stepan?’ and gradually removed artists until only GoldLink and [MadeinTYO!] remained. It definitely built up a lot of anticipation and kept students interested and talking about the concert before it was announced.”

Boggess said she encourages all hip-hop fans to attend the event.

“Tickets are on sale now in the LaFortune Box Office for only $5 until 11 p.m. on Thursday night,” she said. “On Friday, you can buy tickets at the door of the show for $10. If you like hip-hop at all, you should give these artists a shot — you won’t be disappointed.”

by an academic department with approval from the President. This revision will allow for approved stoles to be worn at graduation, according to the release.

Several members of the class of 2018 requested a change to the policy.

“I was moved by thoughtful letters from members of the class of 2018 saying that stoles represent the community they’ve found during their years at Saint Mary’s,” President Jan Cervelli said in the release. “They have shown themselves to be Women of Action in this

effort, as well as in their involvement with the groups that have meant so much to them as students. Symbols of those experiences deserve to be worn during Commencement.”

The Office of Student Affairs will be responsible for approving graduation stoles if a student

desires to wear a stole that is not on the list of approved stoles.

According to the release, organizations with approved stoles are the education department, multiethnic clubs and organizations, Notre Dame band and STEM programs.

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Chair of the English Department Laura Haigwood discusses sexual harassment and its impact on marginalized communities.

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Bursting the ND bubble Cristina Interiano News Writer

A few days ago as I was coming back into town on the South Shore Line, I met one of the most entertaining Uber drivers I have ridden with. For the first half of the ride he went on and on about his childhood memories growing up with sixteen other siblings. He told us about all the mischief they partook in together and how their dominant mother could perfectly control the whole household. After some humorous stories, he began to ask about my roommate and I and if we studied at Notre Dame. “It’s good my brother’s not here, because he would not have liked you.” Because he had been talking in a comic tone the whole ride, I at first thought he was joking, but nevertheless asked him what he meant. He explained how one of his oldest brothers was a child before the civil rights movement and that, for a long time, Notre Dame practiced segregation against people of color, like many peer institutions. While this might not have been the experience of all people of color in relation to the University, this discrimination caused his initial hostile feelings towards Notre Dame. However, the difference is that even though segregation is not active on campus, people at Notre Dame do not take advantage of the University’s potential and resources to make an impact in the local community where most of us do not realize there is a lot of need.

I wanted to defend myself and the University, but realized he was right, we have so much potential to make a difference in our surrounding impoverished communities and even though there are some initiatives, there are not nearly as many people and resources invested as is necessary. I realized I am part of the problem, as I have done community service here, but honestly not as much as I could. I know as students, many of us do not exactly have much time to spare or we feel like there are just not enough hours in the day. However, there are many projects that require only a few hours a week or do not necessarily have to be every week. In one of my classes, “God and the Good Life,” one of our assignments is to identify a philosophical issue that can be addressed on campus and act on it — this is one of the biggest issues we found. It is not only that the students do not go out of their way to do community service, but also that the University does not make it accessible and easy enough for students running on tight schedules to search for opportunities. Therefore, it is important for both the University and its students to change the way in which they address this issue. In my group, we are moving to make it easier for students to be aware of current opportunities and create new initiatives. In conclusion, as Notre Dame students we not only have the obligation to excel academically and provide a good example in our internships and careers, but also to fight to create positive impact everywhere we go and during our time here to the communities that surround us and step out of the comfortable bubble Notre Dame provides.

Contact Cristina Interiano at cinteria@nd.edu The views expressed in this inside column are those of the author and not necessarily of The Observer.

Top 10 rules as an RA Davis Gonsalves Highest-Ranking Column According to Me

You are reading a column from one of the six new RAs for next year in Dunne Hall, and the only one who is currently abroad. Due to my current location on another continent, I won’t have face to face repercussions from Fr. Matt by writing this.

The RA position, as we know, carries a great weight of importance in every hall. They are responsible for keeping safety within their section, planning programming and generally establishing a sense of well-being for their residents. Although no one likes rules, they are an unfortunate reality that allows for a hall to grow and have the freedom to choose the good. There are certain rules universalized across dorms that I will simply not touch on.

Instead, the following top 10 rules are ones that I have independently developed for my future section so that we can become the best community possible. Here we go: 1. Tear all the walls down to help build community.

Build bridges, not walls. Actually, take away walls altogether, what have they ever done for us?

When I think of walls, I think of crude posters hung on them, lack of vision and out of date analog clocks hung. Any of you who have seen HGTV knows that the first step in home renovation is to knock down the walls in between the kitchen and living room for a more “open concept.” Well, I’m going to take this to the extreme and take away all the walls so that residents will have to interact.

Structural integrity be damned, this will do well to build community.

2. Everyone has to know everyone else’s name, hometown, shoe size and blood type.

Honestly the first three I’m iffy on whether they’re necessary but blood type is vital. I think part of the reason I was chosen for the RA position is because I’m O- and can donate to everyone. But, what if you see a fellow Sentinel bleeding out and you don’t know if you can blood-let into them? All I’m saying is it’s a precarious situation we want to avoid in my section.

3. Celebrate parietals with fireworks going off.

This idea comes from the Gannon and Moran presidential ticket which I am a huge fan of. We have all been in the situation where a member of the opposite sex is overstaying their welcome, what better way to signal to them they must leave?

Blowing up a small part of our campus every night is the answer. Bonus is the celebration of coming closer to your section with only the boys leftover.

4. Door always open, including while sleeping.

Similar to the walls principle, we don’t want any barriers to community, whether abstract or physical. No walls will probably render doors useless but I’m not taking chances. At this rate, we’ll have a beautiful South Bend breeze constantly entering our section. Another way to help community.

5. Section Flare Guns.

Picture this: you’re a freshman at a football game and you’ve lost your friends. We’ve all been in this scary situation not knowing many people. How do you find them quickly? Simple fix right here. What if you’re at an off-campus party as a first year and

you forget the way back? Shoot your shot and either me or another section mate will be there. Leave no one behind.

6. Decorations in the section have to be free-trade.

Should go without saying but I’m not putting up any streamers, wrapping paper, etc. that have been made in sweatshops. People forget that this happens, my section will not.

7. No boring social gatherings, only real home-wreckers.

B.Y.O.S (bring your own sledge). If we are going to destroy walls and doors, we need some motivation. If you don’t want to party I completely respect that. If you do though, you better be a good host and pass out the tools as long as they aren’t of the power variety. Ya, maybe social gatherings bring trouble in a few instances, but if we’re going to have them regardless, why not ball out?

8. Those written up must give a PowerPoint presentation on what they’ve done.

Every RA I know says writing people up is an unfortunate reality that must be done. No one relishes that aspect of the role, but if they are going to misbehave then I want full-on Mendoza-esque presentation with animations. That means if the write-up is as a group, you all smile at the one presenting, suits will be worn and there is no actual learning.

This way there won’t be secrets in our section, only lightly attempted justifications for one’s actions.

9. Residents must follow the quasi-caste system I will establish.

I really don’t want to play favorites in the dorm based on who I already know. To remedy this, I will randomly assign numbers to residents through a number generator. Higher numbers are treated better, lower numbers treated worse. It’s a simple way to avoid favoritism by randomly placing people into certain classes of respect and privilege.

Hopefully no Stanford prison experiment kind of thing happens as a result but that’s a risk I’m willing to run.

10. “Closer” and “Mr. Brightside” must start and end every social gathering, respectively.

I may be an RA in Dunne specifically, but I’m an RA for Notre Dame overall. That means I represent the campus as a whole and have to respect all Notre Dame traditions. I want my residents to ask me for anything, but if that means the aux, they better look elsewhere. There are only two Notre Dame approved songs and I will simply mandate them.

Parietals, rules on alcohol and noise volume will all be important in my section, but this list will be my section’s Ten Commandments. I hope my residents will come closer because of these, and if they are ever in trouble my door is always open. Mainly because I won’t have a door. Or walls. Basically I’m one flare shot away at all times.

Davis loves to rank people, places, things, ideas and sometimes even verbs. His current junior year places third among years, his neuroscience major places seventh, and his theology major ranks third among all majors. Contact him at dgonsalv@nd.edu to be placed first in his heart.

The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily of The Observer.

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We, not me, are ND Vaishali Nayak Diversity Council

Notre Dame is proud to share that 81 percent of the freshman class of 2017 self-identified as Catholic. Our non-Catholic students gain knowledge of the Catholic faith through the required theolog y courses and campus life, which is permeated w ith the faith. Yet, when I consider issues on campus about which people feel strongly, and in particular, the approach to discussing diversit y and inclusion, I am given pause. Students speak ver y passionately of their political beliefs, but even more passionately criticize those w ith whom they disagree. This passion was ev ident in the recent student government election, and more so in the runoff election.

One criticism that stood out to me was made by an ardent campaigner. The student gave numerous reasons not to vote for the other ticket.

A lthough many of the arguments were fair, the student ended by adding that the opposition intended to support DACA students w ithout promoting or condemning a particular political v iew point, and that this was not possible because DACA is a hotly-contested political issue.

After the election, another student commented

that minorit y student groups must come together to challenge and work against student government officials to improve the campus culture, while noting that a student government official has been affiliated w ith the College Republicans.

W hile DACA is at the forefront of the current political debate, why must we approach it this way?

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has stated that DACA is a humanitarian issue, and a concern of the Church under Catholic Social Teaching. Notre Dame’s mission statement includes creating “a sense of human solidarit y and concern for the common good that w ill bear fruit as learning becomes ser v ice to justice.”

At this universit y, we should take issues that concern our fellow students and all of humanit y out of a political context, and approach them under what binds the Universit y together — the Catholic faith. Encouraging students to work against each other, v ilif y ing students for their political affiliation and perpetuating negative perceptions of student groups, based on past leadership, create div isiveness and stagnation.

Each new academic year is an opportunit y for students to improve the campus culture. We can make Notre Dame better by bringing together people of differing v iews. W hile this is easier said than done, the way to bring people together

is through what unites all of us — this Universit y and the Catholic faith upon which it was founded. The current campus culture focuses on issues related to politics, pitting Democrats versus Republicans or conser vatives versus liberals.

This mentalit y instills and reinforces w ithin students an “us versus them” perspective, w ith no common ground acknowledged. But what does this mean for efforts to make the Notre Dame communit y a home for all students? If students continue to perpetuate the belief that groups of dissenting political, religious, socioeconomic or any other div ision cannot and w ill not work together, then each student w ill only ever have “MY Notre Dame,” unique to one’s ow n experience, and we w ill never have “OUR Notre Dame,” the shared experience of all graduates of Our Lady’s Universit y.

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

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

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Where is the Notre Dame standard of excellence?

“Aspirational Peer.” That phrase hasn’t been used by other programs in reference to Notre Dame football for twenty-five years. And it hasn’t ever been used by other programs except in reference to Notre Dame men’s basketball teams during Digger Phelps’ heyday.

Despite these facts, both programs remain mired in mediocrity with no end in sight. The University has settled into, and is okay with, perpetual complacency for its premier athletic brands. While the following statements may once have been blasphemy to any knowledgeable Notre Dame fan, today they are the sad truths of the University’s “forced irrelevance”: Stanford football is Notre Dame’s aspirational peer (both are private schools focused on academics with undergraduate student populations between 7,000-9,000). Coach David Shaw has a .768 winning percentage since 2011 (including a 5-2 record against Notre Dame) compared to Coach Brian Kelly’s .585 winning percentage since 2010 (12 wins from 2012 and 9 wins from 2013 were vacated). Consider other coaches whose length of tenure matches or exceeds Brian Kelly: Nick Saban, Dabo Swinney, Gary Patterson and Ken Niumatalolo. Separately, consider coaches whose length of tenure does not exceed Brian Kelly — Urban Meyer and Jimbo Fisher. Brian Kelly may be Jack Swarbrick’s choice, but his program at ND has been mired in arrests, academic scandals and an inability to beat both superior and inferior competition; it shows no signs of being competitive with the likes of Stanford.

Villanova men’s basketball is Notre Dame’s aspirational peer (both are private Catholic schools focused on academics with undergraduate student populations between 7,000-9,000). Coach Jay Wright has a .716 winning percentage (including two national

championships since 2001) compared to Coach Mike Brey’s .667 winning percentage (no Final Four appearances, let alone championships). Consider other coaches whose length of tenure matches or exceeds Mike Brey: Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Boeheim and Tom Izzo. Separately, consider coaches whose length of tenure does not exceed Mike Brey: Roy Williams, Jay Wright and Bill Self. Mike Brey may be the nicest person in the world, but his program at ND plateaued years ago and shows no signs of being competitive with the likes of Villanova.

Recalling Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and envisioning Fr. Hesburgh armin-arm during a civil rights protest seems apropos at this time. As a diehard Notre Dame fan, I have a dream that the mismanagement of the University’s top two programs will finally end; I have a dream that decision-makers with the shrewdness to hire the next David Shaw and/or Jay Wright — on reasonable contracts with appropriate buy-outs — are finally put in place; I have a dream that Notre Dame football perennially finishes in the top 10 and wins championships again with a new “Ara” at the helm; I have a dream that Notre Dame men’s basketball perennially gets into the Sweet 16, regularly returns to the Final Four and captures its first of many championships with a Muffet McGraw-esque coach at the helm; I have a dream that the University and its faithful demand this level of excellence from its football and men’s basketball programs in the same way that excellence is demanded from other programs like women’s basketball, men’s hockey and fencing; I have a dream that these musings are NOT the dream of one exasperated alumnus/fan but ARE in fact the reality that will arrive presently.

“We shall overcome” and regain the proverbial “mountaintop,” but only if we join together and make clear to the University that we have had enough. It seems that perpetual complacency will continue ad infinitum—as it has for twenty-five years or more — unless a continuous, sustained effort is made to demonstrate that the current state of affairs is unacceptable. Turning campus into “Disney World” for gameday was never a priority on my wish list; being blown off the field by teams like Alabama, Ohio State and Miami was never a remote possibility with Ara roaming the sidelines; just making the NCAA tournament was never a goal that Muffet McGraw set or found acceptable for her basketball teams. Fr. Hesburgh said it best in a Sports Illustrated article addressing the dismissal of Coach Terry Brennan: “As long as we, like most American universities, are engaged in intercollegiate athletics, we will strive for excellence of performance in this area too, but never at the expense of the primary order of academic excellence ... There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose ... There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.” (Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., “The Facts of the Matter,” Sports Illustrated (January 19, 1959)).

Why has the Administration abandoned these principles — the Notre Dame standard of excellence — in football and men’s basketball?

Joseph P. Blaney class of 2003 April 4

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By CHARLES KENNEY Scene Writer

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was not a particularly endearing man. He oversaw mass genocides of minorities within the Soviet Union, engineered artificial famine against groups that opposed his rule, introduced a widelycontested program of forced collectivization and essentially brought the Cold War into being through his aggressive interactions.

His legacy is one of atrocity after atrocity without much happiness or room for laughter in between. However, there is one thing that Stalin did to benefit millions of people and likely induce some laughter — he died.

Armando Iannucci’s recently released film “The Death of Stalin” exploits this sole moment of humor from Stalin’s reign of terror in a way both deliberate and surprisingly humorous.

But the film doesn’t focus on the physical death of the leader for too long. But instead, it zeroes in on the much more serious implications of his death — who would succeed him.

This fight over succession dominates the film’s plot and the storyline gives way to most of the humor. Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi), Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale), Georgy Zhukov (Jason Isaacs) and Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor) are the main contenders in the succession, but the film also includes swathes of other Russians who are looking out for their interests to be protected in Russia.

The plot is as it appears to be — historically nuanced and a

By RYAN ISRAEL Scene Writer

Flatbush Zombies is an East-Coast rap team pushing genre limits. After amassing a cult following throughout New York City and on Soundcloud, the group’s three members — Meechy Darko, Zombie Juice and Erick Arc Elliott — released their official debut LP, “3001: A Laced Odyssey,” under their self-owned label Glorious Dead Recordings.

The debut album is a spaced out and trippy project that differs from Flatbush Zombies’ earlier work and constantly shifts from energetic highs to dark lows. But, on their latest release, “Vacation In Hell,” the trio further progresses, shying away from nothing while delivering a versatile hip-hop style that bends genres and hits hard.

The hard-hitting Flatbush Zombies style that emerged on their mixtape “BetterOffDead” appears early on “Vacation In Hell.” The first cut, “HELL-O,” drops the listener into the rap group’s booming world without a road map or compass.

Each member of the crew lands punches with their hard bars, yet none of them have the goal of being the strongest rapper on the track, but rather they seek to assist one another.

Also falling into the category of ‘bumping rap songs’ is their track “Headstone,” the first single released from “Vacation In Hell.” Produced by Erick Arc Elliott and featuring verses from each member, it overflows with references

bit erudite in its content. This, however, does not imply that a immense historical knowledge of the transitionary period of the mid 20th century Soviet Union is necessary to enjoy the film. Having knowledge of this period certainly enhances the comedy of the film, but it is by no means a prerequisite.

The film treats the audience, for the most part, as if they know nothing about the Soviet Union other than that Stalin wasn’t the nicest man. Each historical figure is given a proper introduction, the nuances and repercussions of the transition of power are explained and the state of the Soviet Union under Stalin is shown through a variety of means.

The film is an AP Russian History crash course — easy to understand but with immense amounts of detail.

The approachability of the film, however, is not what makes it great. Rather it is the film’s humor and how it is woven into a history which, on the outside, seems to be anything but a topic to evoke laughter.

The film’s humor isn’t cheap, and it is never at the expense of historical accuracy. Stalin still dies from a heart attack, Beria is still executed towards the end of the film and Malenkov still assumes power at the end of the film.

Instead, some of the details of the event are exaggerated and poked-fun at in at in a way that maintains their historical integrity. It’s an over-zealous funeral planner, Stalin’s guards being too nervous to go check on him after his heart attack and humorous banter between the characters. No large historical details are changed, and in an age of incredibly successful alternate history films like “Inglorious Bastards” and “The Interview,” that is a noble feat in and of itself.

Yet, not everything is strict to the book. The characters in the film speak English in non-Russian accents, which is crucial humor to function. Mocking-Russian accents work in some circumstances, but in the film that Lannucci crafts, English and American accents capture the script’s nuances.

“The Death of Stalin” is not a typical 2000s comedy. It doesn’t get its laughs with gags, crude humor, sexual tension or any other trope that has become a hallmark of a good, laugh-evoking comedy. It relies on attention to detail, clever historical exaggerations and stellar comedic acting — things that may not please every comedy-goer.

“The Death of Stalin,” is not a film that is out to please everyone. It’s a film for audiences that want to learn about the mid-century Soviet Union, that are willing to pay attention to detail for two hours straight and are willing to change their typical notion of what a comedy is.

It may be about a film about Joseph Stalin, but it’s a lot easier to like than he was.

to the group’s musical inspirations, almost as if it is a competition among the rappers to see who can drop the most references. It’s fun to try to catch each reference, as they allude to artists from Notorious B.I.G. and DMX to Eminem and Kanye West.

The most intriguing song from “Vacation In Hell,” however, is undoubtedly “Crown.” The track features rock band Portugal. The Man, who skyrocketed into popularity in 2017 with their hit “Feel It Still.” Flatbush Zombies cooked up a trippy remix of the song in 2017 and must have gained the attention of the band, who provide the breezy chorus on “Crown.” The tune is a testament to the group’s ability to bend genres — it’s a captivating fusion of alternative rock, hip-hop and pure psychedelia.

On “Trapped” and “YouAreMySunshine,” the trio attempts to master a conscious rap style that they have not previously flirted with. Both tracks feature poignant lyricism which tackles the troublesome issues the group has faced. On “Trapped,” Elliott and Darko reveal the mental illnesses that plague them both. Darko’s verse is one of the album’s darkest points as he rambles on about his struggles with suicidal thoughts and depression saying “I got a bad case of 4 A.M. regrets / You know, like when you can’t sleep, laying in your bed / Replaying all them things you wish you never did.”

In the same vein, “YouAreMySunshine” is a heartfelt message from Meechy Darko to A$AP Yams, the founder

of A$AP Mob and leader of the Beast Coast rap movement, who passed away in 2015. Darko goes solo and grieves the loss of his mentor. The track is dark and somber, a far cry from the album’s opening luminary bangers.

The two latter songs reveal an open and vulnerable side to the trio that is juxtaposed with the thug rapper persona portrayed on the album’s earlier tracks. Flatbush Zombies’ ability to pivot from a rough and tough style to an honest and genuine one on “Vacation In Hell” gives the album a sense of completeness. With 19 songs and a 76-minute runtime, the Flatbush trio’s sophomore album runs long, yet this extra time allows the group to experiment with a multitude of styles and produce a number of excellent tracks.

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“Vacation In Hell” Flatbush Zombies Label: Glorious Dead Recordings Tracks: “Hello,” “Crown,” “Ask Courtney” If you like: Joey Bada$$, Vince Staples

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: U-sing force won’t help you get your way this year. Lean on your expertise and knowledge to create what you want to see unfold.

How you handle others will be the key factor in how much you accomplish.

Don’t leave any detail incomplete or take impulsive action when dealing with superiors or your peers. Focus on what is feasible, not the impossible.

Your numbers are 4, 12, 20, 28, 36, 41, 44.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’ll be taken advantage of if you are too accommodating or willing to give or do more than the people you consider to be equals. Don’t take on responsibilities that don’t belong to you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Lend a helping hand only because you want to or feel you have something worthwhile to contribute. Don’t let anyone browbeat you into taking on responsibilities you don’t want. Make physical activity, health and personal growth your priorities.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A change at work or with the way you approach a project will make a positive difference to your direction or the outcome of what you are trying to accomplish. Don’t be afraid to ask for favors or to make suggestions.

CANCER ( June 21-July 22): Protect against ill health. Don’t take chances; avoid places where you are more likely to come in contact with germs.

Make important relationships a priority, and you will achieve greater understanding as well as personal stability.

LEO ( July 23-Aug. 22): Change may tempt you, but preparation will be necessary if you want things to unfold smoothly. Don’t let impulse cause you to take on too much or to overlook something important. Use your intelligence and be open to suggestions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Interact with people who have something to offer. Networking will give you a unique perspective on what’s available to you and how you should consider moving forward. Updating your image as well as your attitude will lead to favorable responses.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Emotional baggage coupled with excessive behavior is a recipe for disaster. Think matters through before making promises or taking action that will upset someone close to you. Problems with an older relative or domestic issues should be handled with compassion.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Situations will get blown out of proportion and indulgent tendencies will take over if you aren’t disciplined and willing to meet demands being made somewhere in the middle. Give and take will be the ticket to success and warding off discord.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Network and you will build alliances with your peers that will encourage greater progress. Mixing excellence with strength and courage is a good approach to getting what you want, but don’t take on too much. Set realistic expectations.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Emotional problems will develop if you don’t take care of matters that can influence how or where you live. Keeping up with what’s going on around you and the latest economic trends will help you make better choices.

AQUARIUS ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Question your current look and what you have done to keep up with the times. A thoughtful approach to updating your wardrobe or attitude will encourage good results. Use your intelligence along with your will to change.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): An emotional incident will arise if you let someone from your past come back into your life. Don’t forget what’s happened. You may be able to forgive, but forgetting will make it difficult to begin again. Embrace the future, not the past.

Birthday Baby: You are creative, protective and aggressive. You are investigative and strong-willed.

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Sometimes all you need is an away goal Tobias Hoonhout Managing Editor

As Tuesday’s Champions League results proved, sometimes all you need is an away goal.

Both underdogs in Tuesday’s quarterfinal rounds — Liverpool and Roma — were able to advance to the semifinals over powerhouses Manchester City and Barcelona, respectively, through the timely scoring of goals away from home.

After a scintillating 3-0 win at home in the first leg last week, Liverpool was able to slam the door on any sort of comeback for Manchester City with two goals in the second half of Tuesday’s second leg to push the aggregate score to 5-1. And in Rome, AS Roma scored three goals and held a clean sheet against Barcelona, advancing 4-4 on aggregate thanks to a first-leg away goal in a 4-1 defeat last week.

The concept of away goals in soccer is a unique one to the world of sports. It’s only applied in knockout situations such as the Champions League or other tournaments, which often divide the fixtures over a home and away tie for both teams, in a similar vein to how American sports use series in the playoffs. But imagine the Stanley Cup or World Series coming down to which team scored more over the entire series, with points away from home counting more in the case of a tiebreaker. It’s a concept that’s very foreign to us and may seem a little absurd.

But in soccer, it makes total sense.

Because it’s so difficult to score in soccer — it’s one of the few sports to have games end unequivocally in draws — the importance of defending is especially prevalent.

Jose Mourinho, the polarizing manager of Manchester United, has made the concept of “parking the bus” a credible phenomenon, throwing all 10 players behind the ball in front of the net in a total defensive effort, which makes the already difficult scoring that much harder.

Thus, in knockout competitions where there is extra time and ultimately a winner is decided, away goals serve as a buffer to help prevent teams from abusing homefield advantage and force the away teams to be more daring in trying to score.

In the LiverpoolManchester City and RomaBarcelona matches, we saw two very different outcomes.

Typically, the first leg is the more dangerous of the two matches for the home team, because while scoring is obviously important, the prospects of giving up an away goal can prove especially costly. At home in the first leg, Liverpool played a dream game with solid defense at the back and goal scoring from the front to finish with a picture-perfect 3-0 win. Meanwhile, Barcelona — who also played at home — dominated with four goals but gave up a singular away goal in a 4-1 win. Now, both had large advantages heading into the second leg, with an away goal practically guaranteeing the win. But sometimes, the ideal doesn’t work out. W hile Liverpool saw its home success spark a 2-1 win to go through comfortably to the semifinals, Barcelona struggled in a shocking 3-0 loss to crash out of the tournament, all thanks to that single goal conceded at home.

W hile goals don’t guarantee wins, the away-goals rule has proven a mainstay in soccer, and for good reason.

Without it, not only would soccer be forced to entertain the possibility of having oddnumbered legs for each fixture — a time consuming and costly adjustment — but the sport would also lose some of the magic of the game itself.

Just take a look at Barcelona and PSG from last year’s Champions League roundof-16 matchup. Although Barcelona was utterly dominated in the first leg, losing 4-0 in Paris, the second leg still mattered just as much for both teams. Barcelona pushed hard to score five goals — bound to be an entertaining match — while PSG pushed for a single away goal to put the match out of reach.

And even though Edison Cavani did score for PSG, it only pushed Barcelona harder, as the Catalan club scored a miraculous six goals to advance 6-5 on aggregate.

Even if you’re not a soccer fan, a 6-1 score line is a pretty eventful game. And we have away goals to thank for that.

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Junior attack Ryder Garnsey cradles the ball as he runs up against Duke senior midfield Sean Cerrone in Notre Dame’s loss in Arlotta Stadium on Saturday. The Irish take on Milwaukee on Wednesday.

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in program histor y. Notre Dame has not lost yet in the series, w ith six w ins in as many matchups. But despite the histor y of success against Marquette, the Irish will not be overlooking the Golden Eagles by any stretch.

“We don’t have any neutral opponents,” Irish head coach Kevin Corrigan said. “Marquette is a well coached team, and they are very disciplined. We aren’t going to do anything different against them.”

Although the Irish struggled offensively in their last game, their defense allows an average of 9.00 goals per game, ranking 18th in the country despite having faced four of the top11 scoring offenses in the country so far this season.

Notre Dame’s defense has held six of its nine opponents to fewer than 10 goals scored, and it held both Duke and No. 12 Virginia to

season-low scoring totals in its games against them.

“We’ve been consistent, but we are still growing and will get better,” Corrigan said of his team’s development. “During the game against Duke, we didn’t play well offensively, but we did defensively. ... We need a little more of an experienced offensive that displays together. We’re missing guys, pivotal guys in our game, and we can overcome that if we play together. The young guys have trouble with that, so we will throw in some more experienced players in future matches.”

With the injuries on the team, Corrigan said senior midfielder Pierre Byrne has rised to the occasion.

“He has played very well, and there’s a lot on his shoulders at the moment,” Corrigan said. “He is one of our main creators now since guys are hurt and on the bench. We’ll get more experience and relax a little, and we’ll continue to go up.”

In addition to the solid defense and players

stepping up due to injuries, several Irish leaders earned recognition recently when Inside Lacrosse unveiled its 2018 midseason A llAmerican list. Senior long stick midfielder John Sexton earned firstteam recognition, while sophomore midfielder Br yan Costabile earned second-team recognition.

Additionally, junior shortstick defensive midfielder Drew Schantz made the third team, and junior attack Brendan Gleason was listed amongst the honorable mentions.

Even though the list is out, Corrigan said he does not pay much attention to it, but instead focuses on the need to keep play ing and settling the team to work around the injuries.

That work w ill continue Wednesday night, when the Irish and Golden Eagles w ill battle it out at 7 p.m. at Valley Fields in Milwaukee.

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McGee leads the team in batting average (.416), hits (42), runs (23), extra-base hits (11), runs batted in (19), slugging percentage (.594) and onbase percentage (.508). She has also only struck out five times at the dish.

On the other side, the Irish pitchers are coming off perhaps their best weekend of

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the season. Freshman righthander Alexis Holloway pitched two complete games against the Orange over the weekend, allowing just one run in each game. She now sports a 1.99 earned-run average this season in 30 appearances and a 16-8 record.

Senior left-hander Katie Beriont also had her best game of the season, throwing her first complete-game shutout against Syracuse on Sunday while only needing

65 pitches to do so. She is now 10-4 on the season with a 2.40 earned-run average.

Offensively, one player the Irish hope will find more success at the plate than she has as of late is Cait Brooks. The junior, who has served as the team’s designated player for most of the season, played left field in both games this past Sunday and is mired in a 1-for-24 slump at the plate in her last nine games.

However, Irish head coach

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Senior pitcher Katie Beriont prepares to release a pitch during Notre Dame’s 6-1 victory over Eastern Michigan at Melissa Cook Stadium on March 27. Beriont is 10-4 on the season.

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Deanna Gumpf said she thinks Brooks, who has struck out just once and walked four times during that nine-game stretch, is just experiencing some bad luck at the plate despite good at-bats.

“If you look at the quality of her at-bats, her quality at-bats were really good [Sunday],” Gumpf said Sunday. “So I wouldn’t even call it a slump because she’s putting [a] good bat on ball. It just isn’t happening for her. It happens, that’s the game. That’s softball.”

A lineup change the Irish made during Sunday’s doubleheader was removing senior shortstop Morgan Reed, who had been 0-for-9 in her previous three games and has 13 errors committed on the season, from the lineup for the day and playing sophomore Katie Marino — who usually plays second base — at short and moving junior Ali Wester from the outfield to second base. Gumpf said after Sunday’s doubleheader that she was very pleased with what she say from Marino and Wester defensively up the middle.

“I loved it. I thought they stepped up big time,” she said. “I thought they looked great.”

As far as whether or not that

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will be a more regular defensive alignment going forward, Gumpf said she is more than willing to play the hot hand, as she has plenty of confidence in Reed, Marino and Wester up the middle.

“It depends on how things are rolling for us,” Gumpf said Sunday. “It depends on how we’re handling things and how Morgan’s playing and how Katie’s playing and how Ali’s playing. So we’re very fortunate we’re able to do that.”

As far as preparing for the Ramblers, Gumpf said the game plan is simple. The Irish will look to take advantage of the doubleheader to continue to build on their recent momentum and prepare them for the upcoming weekend series with Duke.

“I like the fact that we’re playing two against Loyola, that’s going to really help us and prepare us for the weekend,” she said.

The Irish and Ramblers will square off for two games Wednesday at Melissa Cook Stadium. First pitch for game one is scheduled for 4 p.m., while first pitch for the second contest is tentatively scheduled for 6 p.m.

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Junior infielder Nick Podkul looks to tag Kent State redshirt senior Nick Kanavas in an Irish loss to the Golden Flashes on March 27.

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Senior outfielder Jake Singer waits for a pitch during Notre Dame’s loss to Kent State at Frank Eck Stadium on March 27. The Irish are 14-18 on the season.

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at the plate, while Jung and junior right fielder Eric Gilgenbach advanced to second and third, respectively.

The next batter, freshman catcher David LaManna, doubled to left center field, however, plating Gilgenbach and Jung to give the Irish a 3-0 lead after two frames.

The Irish then added to their lead in the top of the fourth, as Gilgenbach took first, drawing a walk on a full count. Jung then singled up the middle, putting runners at the corners. LaManna came through again for the Irish with a sacrifice f ly to right field to drive in Gilgenbach, but Jung was thrown out at second tr ying to advance on the throw home.

Cole Daily followed up the RBI with one of his own: The junior shortstop hit a solo shot to right field, giving the Irish a 5-0 lead.

Notre Dame’s lead only continued to grow, as LaManna walked to lead off the sixth inning. Senior center fielder Jake Johnson rode out an eight-pitch at-bat to also reach base via walk, moving LaManna into scoring position.

The Spartans (9-20, 3-5 Big Ten) pulled freshman southpaw Jesse Heikkinen, as he had already given up another run in the fifth and

the Irish had two on base with one out in the sixth, in favor of redshirt-sophomore right-hander Caleb Sleeman.

He immediately struck out junior second baseman Nick Podkul, but junior third baseman Matt Vierling doubled down the left field line, plating both Johnson and LaManna to give the Irish an 8-0 lead through six innings.

However, the Spartans staged a comeback in the next inning, as Irish starter and sophomore right-hander Zack Martin quickly found himself with two runners in scoring position and no outs, prompting Irish head coach Mik Aoki to turn to sophomore right-hander Anthony Holubecki.

The third pitch from Holubecki put a major dent in the Irish lead, however, as Spartans freshman catcher Adam Proctor sent it over the right field wall to make the score 8-3.

A single and an error on Hobulecki put runners on first and second with still no outs. Holubecki was able to force two consecutive outs without allowing the runners to advance, but the next batter — Spartans senior first baseman Zack McGuire — doubled down the left field line, driving in both base runners and bringing the score to 8-5.

The ver y next pitch by Holubecki cut the Irish lead to just one run, as Spartans redshirt-senior designated

hitter Chad Roskelly went deep to left field, driving in McGuire and making it an 8-7 game.

Michigan State’s seven-run inning came to an end, however, with another pop f ly after Holubecki was pulled for sophomore right-hander Andrew Belcik.

The Spartans were unable to tie the game in the next inning, as Belcik put them away in a 1-2-3 inning, and both the Irish and the Spartans went up and down in order in the ninth, allowing Notre Dame to successfully fend off the Michigan State comeback attempt.

The Irish now return home Wednesday for their second Big Ten game of the week to take on Northwestern.

The Wildcats (8-17, 1-8 Big Ten) bring with them senior catcher Jack Claeys, who has hit five home runs this season. Junior infielder Willie Bourbon leads the team with 18 runs driven in this season. Freshman outfielder David Dunn touts a .324 batting average, a .529 slugging percentage and a .410 onbase percentage, all leading marks for Northwestern.

The Wildcats’ top pitcher is freshman southpaw Quinn Lavelle, who touts a 2.75 earned-run average and a 3-3 record.

First pitch between the Irish and the Wildcats is scheduled for 6:05 p.m.

Wednesday at Frank Eck Stadium.

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ND Women’s golf | Bryan national collegiate Invite

Irish end regular season, look to NCAA tourney

By MIA BERRY Sports Writer

In their final regular-season tournament, the Irish placed 13th overall at the Bryan National Collegiate Invitational, which took place in Greensboro, North Carolina, over Friday and Saturday. The three-round event featured a strong field with six top-25 teams.

After the opening two rounds of the tournament Friday, the Irish were in ninth place in the 17-team field after shooting for a combined score of 599 to put themselves 23-over-par. In addition to a top-10 team placing, the Irish also had two golfers, junior Emma Albrecht and sophomore Mia Ayer, within the top 10 of the field. Ayers was tied for third place with a two-round, even-par 144, and Albrecht was tied for seventh place with a two-round, 1-over 145. Irish head coach Susan Holt said she was very pleased with the performances of Ayer and Albrecht.

“This was an event that had a lot of really highly ranked players, and Emma and Mia did well to place in the top 10 [through the first two rounds],” Holt said. “Emma has been solid all year, and it was great to see Mia have a breakout tournament.”

The top-10 placement for the Irish didn’t last too long, however. A third-round 325 dropped them four spots Saturday to 13th overall.

“The saturated course conditions from the start and rainy and cold temperatures played a big role in our third-round score,” Holt said. “The conditions were tough, and we just didn’t manage it well.”

At the conclusion of play, Albrecht would stand tied for 12th overall, while Ayers would finish tied for 21st. Albrecht shot a three-round 224 to finish 8-over-par, and Ayers shot a three-round total of 226 — including a final round 82 — to finish 10-over-par. Juniors Isabella DiLisio and Maddie Rose Hamilton would finish tied for 63rd and 78th overall, respectively. Freshman Abby Heck finished tied for 68th place to round out the Irish squad.

With the conclusion of the regular season, the Irish will now turn their attention to the ACC championship, which Holt said she and her team are expecting to be a strong test.

“We are looking forward to the ACC championship,“ Holt said. “It will challenge us to post three really good rounds to be in contention. As always, the championship will be a real test for us and be great preparation for the NCAA tournament.”

The Irish will resume competition April 21-23 in the ACC championship in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Contact Mia Berry at mberry1@nd.edu

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his point total ranked 13th.

He also led the Irish with five game-winning goals this season — including the winner with 5.7 seconds left on the clock in regulation during Notre Dame’s 4-3 Frozen Four victory over Michigan last Thursday — and ranked second in the country with 550 face-off wins. All of those statistics culminated in his first team all-Big Ten selection this

past season, as he helped lead the Irish to Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles during the program’s inaugural season in the conference.

Evans was also named the 2018 Senior CL ASS award winner for men’s ice hockey. According to the press release, the Senior CL ASS award is given annually to “a senior student-athlete who excels both on and off the ice, is classified as an NCA A Division I senior and has notable achievements in four areas of excellence:

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community, classroom, character and competition.”

The Toronto native finished his Notre Dame career with 41 goals and 97 assists for 138 points in 158 games played. His point total ranks 21st in program history, while his total number of assists places him in a tie for 13th in program history.

He also proved to be one of the program’s most durable players, closing out his Irish career by playing in 131 consecutive games; in fact, the forward only missed one game in his four seasons.

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Head coach Mike Brey surveys the court during Notre Dame’s loss to Penn State in the second round of the NIT in Purcell Pavilion on March 17. Brey’s new contract extends his previous contract until 2025.

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in the position through the 2024-2025 season.

The new deal will take effect July 1, 2018, and run through June 30, 2025. It extends his previous contract, which was set to expire in 2021-2022, by three seasons.

Brey signed that contract at the end of the 2011-2012 season.

“My goal has always been

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to be good enough to retire as the head coach at Notre Dame,” Brey said in a press release. “It sure looks like I might be able to pull that off with this extension. I am truly honored and humbled to be the head coach at the University of Notre Dame.

I want to sincerely thank [University President Fr. John Jenkins] and [director of athletics] Jack Swarbrick for their steadfast support and commitment to our program.

“I’m proud of what our

program has achieved in the past 18 years, and I could not be more excited about what the future holds.”

Brey was initially named head coach by the University on July 14, 2000. During his 18 seasons with the program, Brey has lead Notre Dame to an average of 22 wins per season, 12 NCA A tournament appearances, three trips to the Sweet 16 and back-toback Elite Eight appearances in 2015 — a season which included an ACC tournament championship — and 2016.

In 2011, Brey won the AP Coach of the Year award. He also has three Big East Coach of the Year awards on his resume, earning that honor in 2007, 2008 and 2011.

“Mike Brey has built one of the most consistently successful programs in the country,” Swarbrick said in the release. “And the foundation of that success is a winning culture that develops the members of his teams as both basketball players and young men. He is a perfect fit for Notre Dame, and we are excited to have him lead our program well into the future.”

If Brey finishes out the length of his new contract, he will have spent 25 years as Notre Dame’s head coach.

That would make him the longest-tenured coach in the program’s history, passing the likes of Digger Phelps and George Keogan, who each held the position for 20 years.

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Track | sun angel classic

Notre Dame enjoys strong infield weekend

By PETER BALTES Sports Writer

This past weekend, Notre Dame competed at A rizona State’s Sun Angel Classic in Tempe, Arizona. The Irish put forth many impressive performances over the course of the meet, especially on the infield.

One of the biggest stor ylines for the Irish this season has been the strong performance of graduate student pole vaulter Nathan Richartz. Richartz did not disappoint at the Sun Angel Classic, w inning the men’s pole vault after clearing 5.55 meters on his first attempt.

It was Richartz’s third w in of the year, as he has won the event in ever y meet he has competed in so far this season.

Irish jumps coach Jim Garnham said he has been ver y pleased w ith Richartz’s work so far.

“The biggest thing right now is just being consistent, and he’s [been] super consistent at this point in time,” Garnham said. “In the jumping events, you want to be consistent because at the end of the year, when you’re getting ready to jump at the national meet, the person w ith the most consistency w ill be in the running to w in. ... He works hard, he’s busted his butt. Ever y thing that he gets, he’s earned.”

Junior Matthew Birzer put together a ver y strong performance in the men’s high jump, earning fourth place overall in the event after clearing the bar at 2.10 meters. Senior Hunter Holton finished in 10th place, clearing the bar in 2.05 meters.

Freshman Antonio Villegas Jimenez finished eighth overall in the long jump, finishing w ith a distance of 6.86 meters.

Garnham said he is proud of how his squad has trained

so far in the outdoor season, noting that the training volume is about to gradually decrease as the postseason draws nearer.

“The group is good,” he said. “Since the end of the [indoor] conference meet, we’ve kind of gotten on them, and we’ve been training really hard and [with] lots of volume. Now, it’s the fun stuff; now, we’re starting to back off, we’re peaking and getting ready to go for postseason competition.”

Notre Dame athletes put together strong performances in several other field events.

On the men’s side, sophomore thrower Shae Watkins led the way in the discus throw, winning second place overall with a throw of 52.20 meters. Junior Daniel Hardiman earned ninth place in the event, throwing for a distance of 48.01 meters. Both athletes set new personal records with their throws, with Watkins’ throw ranking 10th in school history.

The Irish also picked up a pair of top-10 finishes in both the men’s and women’s hammer throw. Sophomore Logan Kusky finished ninth place with a distance of 58.04 meter. On the women’s side, sophomore Abbey Kapitan (48.84 meters) and freshman Rachel Tanczos (47.83 meters) finished in sixth and seventh place overall, respectively.

Tanczos went on to finish third overall in the shot put.

She threw for a distance of 14.79 meters, a new personal record.

The Irish were able to find some success on the track as well. Senior sprinter Jordan Shead earned third place and a personal best in the women’s 200-meter dash, finishing w ith a time of 24.35 seconds. Shead secured another top-ten finish in the 400-meter dash, crossing the line in 54.33 seconds to take

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Irish junior Matthew Birzer clears the bar during a high jump at the Meyo Invitational in Loftus Center on Feb. 3.

eighth place.

An Irish team of Shead, sophomore Summer Thorpe, senior A llison Bartoszew icz and sophomore Grace Cronin competed in the 4x400-meter relay, finishing in seventh place w ith a time of 3:42.83.

Notre Dame goes back into action again this weekend, this time traveling to the Louisv ille Inv itational in Kentuck y. Notre Dame’s jumps group has often found success there in the past, Garnham said. The Irish hope to perform well there this weekend and continue to build momentum as the postseason nears.

“Ty pically for the jumps group, Louisv ille has always been a really good place for us to jump,” Garnham said. “It just depends on the weather — right now it looks like it’s going to be raining on Saturday and on the cooler side. ... It’s a low-key meet, but it’s a great place to jump. ... It’s always been a good place, and I always look forward to going there.”

The t wo-day competition w ill begin Friday at 2 p.m..

Saturday’s events w ill begin at 11 a.m.

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Irish senior Jordan Shead sprints during the Meyo Invitational on Feb. 3. She ran a personal best and earned third at the Sun Angel Classic.

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Irish prep for last play before ACC tourney

By JACK CONCANNON Sports Writer

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Irish freshman Davis Chatfield putts the ball at Warren Golf Course on Oct. 8. Chatfield has stepped up as one of Notre Dame’s top players, and led the Irish in the K-State Bighorn Invitational last month.

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After almost a month away from competition, the Irish will be back and ready to compete at the Clemson Invitational from Friday through Sunday. The tournament will be held at The Cliffs at Keowee Falls Golf Course in Keowee Falls, South Carolina.

The last tournament the team played in was the K-State Bighorn Invitational on March 23 and March 24, where freshman Davis Chatfield led the way for the Irish. He played all three rounds at or below par, finishing tied for 14th place individually in a competitive field. Irish head coach John Handrigan said he has been very pleased with Chatfield’s

recent performance.

“He’s progressed a lot. He’s gone from playing well two out of three rounds to playing well every round. He’s done a really a good job making himself more consistent,” Handrigan said. “Being a freshman, he’s one of the top players now, which is really helping us out. He’s contributing every single week and every round.”

In addition to the recent surge from Chatfield, the Irish have also continued to receive consistent contributions from sophomore John Felitto and junior Miguel Delgado. The two of them both finished three strokes behind Chatfield and tied for 21st overall at the Bighorn Invitational, and they were also both top-40 individual finishers at the Schenkel Invitational on March 16-18.

Handrigan lauded his team’s depth at this point in the season and said he believes anyone can step up any week.

“We have several guys that are all playing well,” he said.

“I’m not looking at one guy individually. When we get things going and play well as a team, we can do some great things. Every week is different. Felitto played well at K-State, and so did [junior] Ben [Albin]. The week before, it was couple different guys.

Every week, different guys can chip in; and if someone’s down a little bit, other guys can help him out. I’m excited to see who is going to do it this week.”

The team now heads into the Clemson Invitational, its final tournament before next week’s ACC championship.

It’s the final tune-up before the biggest tournament of the season, where the Irish will look to manifest all the work they’ve put in into a good result, Handrigan said. When asked what his expectations are for the team at Clemson, Handrigan said he expects his team to improve.

“We’re just trying to get better as a team and individually.

We’re trying to get better every single week,” he said. “We have things that we work on as a team every day, and if we get better every day in those areas at Clemson, it’s going to prepare us well for the ACCs. Sometimes, we might play well as a team and finish fifth, and that’s okay if we’re still improving. We’re not playing our golf yet, but we’re moving in the right direction.”

The Irish will compete in the Clemson Invitational this Friday through Sunday in Keowee Falls, South Carolina.

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baseball | ND 8, MSU 7

men’s basketball

Irish fend off MSU comeback Observer Sports Staff

Notre Dame was able to stave off an attempted comeback by Michigan State as it headed to East Lansing, Michigan, to take on the Spartans in its first of two Big Ten matchups this week.

The Irish bats came alive in the second inning, when Notre Dame (14-18, 5-10 ACC) became the first of the t wo teams to get on the scoreboard.

With the bases loaded and no outs, sophomore first baseman Daniel Jung dropped a single into left field, driv ing in senior left fielder A lex Kerschner.

However, on the play, freshman designated hitter Niko Kavadas tried to score from second but was thrown out see BASEBALL PAGE 16

Brey signs through 2025 Observer Sports Staff

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Notre Dame sophomore right-hander Zack Martin fires a pitch during Notre Dame’s 4-1 loss to Kent State on March 27 at Frank Eck Stadium. The Irish take on the Wildcats on Wednesday at home.

This past season, Mike Brey won his 400th game patrolling the sideline as Notre Dame’s head coach, a mark that makes him the w inningest head coach in the men’s program’s histor y.

And the Universit y hopes he w ill be able add to that total for years to come, as it announced Tuesday that Brey signed a contract extension that w ill keep him see M BBALL PAGE 17

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hockey

Evans signs with Montreal in entry-level deal

Squad preps for Golden Eagles after home loss

By MEAGAN BENS Sports Writer

No. 15 Notre Dame will travel north and face Marquette on Wednesday for a midweek matchup against the Golden Eagles.

After never finding an offensive rhythm against No. 5 Duke and losing 8-2 at home, the Irish (5-4, 1-2 ACC) will travel to meet the Golden Eagles (5-4, 2-1 Big East) for the seventh time see M LAX PAGE 13

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Freshman attack Mikey Drake runs up the field during Notre Dame’s loss to Duke on Saturday at Arlotta Stadium.

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Senior forward and captain Jake Evans skates up the ice in Notre Dame’s win over Michigan in the Frozen Four on Thursday.

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Less than a week after helping to lead his team to an appearance in the national championship, Irish senior for ward and captain Jake Evans signed a twoyear, entr y-level deal w ith the Montreal Canadiens on Monday, the program announced in a press release Tuesday.

In the 2014 NHL Entr y Draft, Evans was a seventhround draft pick — selected 207th overall — by the Canadiens.

This past season, Evans led the Irish w ith career-best marks in assists (33) and points (46). His assist total was good for the fifth-best total in the countr y, while see HOCKEY PAGE 17

ND sets for doubleheader against Loyola–Chicago

By BEN PADANILAM Sports Editor

Coming off a sweep of ACC opponent Sy racuse, Notre Dame w ill look to continue its current momentum when it hosts Loyola-Chicago for a doubleheader Wednesday at Melissa Cook Stadium.

After a weekend in which they outscored the Orange (18-17, 4-10 ACC) by a margin of 13 runs and only

allowed t wo runs throughout the entire three-game sweep, the Irish (26-12, 10-4 ACC) w ill now welcome the Ramblers (16-16, 3-7 MVC) to campus for a mid-week doubleheader.

The Ramblers enter the pair of games hav ing won just one of their last five contests. They were most recently swept in a t wogame series w ith Illinois State this past weekend, as they were shutout in both

games. In fact, the Ramblers have struggled offensively as of late, hav ing only managed to score six runs in those five games.

One player who has continually found success at the plate for the Ramblers, however, is sophomore outfielder Shannon McGee. Amongst players to have started started a game for the Ramblers this season, see SOFTBALL PAGE 15