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Onward and upward Despite a slow start, No. 4 Notre Dame holds off Northwestern rally in road win

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Irish senior wide receiver Miles Boykin leaps up for a pass during the third quarter of Notre Dame’s 31-21 win over Northwestern at Ryan Field. Boykin subsequently hauled in the 20-yard touchdown from Irish junior quarterback Ian Book to put Notre Dame up 21-7. The senior leads all Irish receivers with 40 receptions for 624 yards and seven touchdowns.

There’s a lot to like about ND’s new ‘process’ Tobias Hoonhout Managing Editor

EVANSTON, Ill. — There were moments on Saturday night that brought back some good ole-fashioned deja vu.

After all, there’s some history involving a ranked Notre Dame, on the road, in November.

And it’s not all that good.

For all the early-season success in the Kelly era, it’s undeniable that there’s been a disturbing trend in how the Irish have handled the challenge of finishing out a season with a chance at football’s biggest prize.

With challenging situations and the added pressure to deliver, late-season road games under Kelly have often been marked by more Notre Dame mistakes than successes.

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By ELIZABETH GREASON Assistant Managing Editor

EVANSTON, Ill. — To get to 9-0, there will inevitably be some moments when fans hold their collective breath.

As the Irish attempted that feat Saturday against Northwestern, that statement held true, as the two teams went into halftime tied with one touchdown apiece. Then, after Notre Dame was able to create some breathing room in the second half, further miscues brought the Wildcats right back into the game.

But the most important play of the game came at the very end: the one that won it all.

The Wildcats (5-4, 5-1 Big Ten) had drawn the game in close, to within three points, and the Irish (9-0) needed to put points up and eat clock.

And they did exactly that.

Notre Dame started deep in its own territory, but junior quarterback Ian Book connected with junior wide receiver Chase Claypool for a gain of 21 yards to give the offense some space to breath.

A series of five-consecutive

rushes, including a run of 19 yards that senior running back Dexter Williams was able to tear off, marched the Irish across midfield. A false start, however — Notre Dame’s third of the night — backed them up.

The Irish offense shook off the penalty, as it had become accustomed to doing over the course of the evening, and Book connected with senior wide receiver Miles Boykin for a 15-yard gain.

Two back-to-back threeyard gains courtesy of Williams brought Notre Dame to the 23-yard line, causing the Wildcats to call a timeout. When the two teams lined up again, Book took off for a 23-yard touchdown.

“I just had one guy to read, and was able to get a nice pull read,” Book said. “[Sophomore tight end] Cole [Kmet] did a good job, he didn’t even have to block anybody, I don’t think, because we were pulling. It was a great feeling. … There’s no better feeling [than seeing open field].”

Book’s running touchdown marked the final points of the

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game on a drive that ate over four minutes of clock, leaving the Wildcats with just under three minutes in a two-possession game, giving the Irish the insurance points they needed to seal the win and preserve their undefeated status.

But, there’s a reason that touchdown mattered so much. The two teams had gone into halftime tied at seven, after Williams scored on a one-yard run on Notre Dame’s second offensive drive — Book fumbled a read option on its first drive — and Wildcats senior quarterback Clayton Thorson was pushed over the goal line to tie the game in the second quarter.

The Irish struggled to get anything going in the first half, as Book passed for just over 100 yards in the first two quarters and completed less than half of his passes, compared to the over-70 percent he had completed in each previous game as a starter. They also only gathered 55 yards on the ground, compared to the 63 Northwestern was

EVANSTON, Ill. — Sometimes, a player is just due for a big game.

That’s how it felt for Chase Claypool on Saturday night in Evanston, Ill. The British Columbia native had a somewhat of a breakout season in 2017, totaling over 400 receiving yards. However, Claypool had found himself slightly stagnant offensively this season, recording 30 to 50-yard games, grabbing a touchdown here and there. His previous high on the season was 61 yards against Pittsburgh.

But against the Wildcats, the wide receiver tallied 130 yards for the Irish, and while he didn’t pick up any touchdowns or make tons of flashy plays, the junior certainly earned the game ball head coach Brian Kelly presented to him after the game.

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able to accumulate.

But, as one fan joked on Twitter, it was as if Ian Book ate a Snickers at halftime and came out a new quarterback in the third quarter.

“In the second half, they needed to play much better football, especially offensively, we had too many penalties, the turnover, obviously, a bit uncharacteristic for us, relative to the kind of game that we played all year, this was a little bit outside of the rails for us, in terms of how we played this year, but they cleaned it up in the second half and played pretty good football,” Irish head coach Brian Kelly said after the game.

Notre Dame scored 17 unanswered points in the second half before Northwestern made a move.

A series of mid-range passes marched the Irish down the field. Book to Claypool for 13 yards; Book to Williams for 13 yards; Book to Claypool for

nine yards; false start, the second of the night; Williams for eight yards; Book to sophomore wide receiver Michael Young for 13 yards got the Irish to the 29-yard line of Northwestern.

A few plays later, the ball found itself safely in the back corner of the end zone in Boykin’s hands, giving the Irish a 14-7 lead.

“Just being able to see Miles get a little bit of separation like that, you know he’s going to go make the play, and it just worked out perfectly, and I know Miles is going to go make those plays,” Book said.

On their next possession, the Irish found themselves pinned deep in their own territory at the 2-yard line. That wasn’t an issue for Book, as on secondand-10 he launched a 31-yard deep ball to Claypool, giving the Irish plenty of room to work with.

The Irish went on the run to Williams for a gain of six, and then, after a no-gain play, Book went downfield to Claypool again for 14 yards, followed quickly by a 47-yard bomb to Young, to put the Irish up 21-7.

A 47-yard field goal courtesy of senior kicker Justin Yoon gave the Irish a 17-point lead.

A lead that would evaporate much more quickly than it appeared.

An illegal formation penalty on the kickoff moved the Wildcats up to the 30-yard line, and within three plays, they were on the Irish side of the field.

After the game, Irish junior cornerback Julian Love said the squad really only gave up one big pass play on the day. And that play resulted in the touchdown that allowed Northwestern to score for the first time since the second quarter, as Thorson connected with sophomore receiver Riley Lees to make the score 24-14.

With 8:56 left in the game and a still with a comfortable lead, the Irish were forced to punt.

That’s when things went wrong.

Redshirt-freshman Cameron Ruiz blocked the punt and recovered at the Notre Dame 17. And while it took them a few plays, the Wildcats found the end zone in

under two minutes, cutting the lead to just three points.

Notre Dame’s special teams unit has struggled over the course of the season and Kelly was displeased with the squad’s mistakes in the game.

“We just make some silly mistakes ... you can’t have a blocked punt,” he said. “We’ve got a guy that’s one of our best players in that position [in graduate student punter Tyler Newsome], so we just have to be better with attention to detail. We’re putting our best players on the field, and they’ve got to be better every single snap.”

Which is why that last Ian Book touchdown, that 23-yard run, mattered so much for Notre Dame.

“We certainly had held that play for an opportunity to end the game, it was an unbalanced situation, we got the numbers the way we wanted it, we could’ve handed it off if they didn’t kick the front, they kicked it, we got a good look, we brought the tight end back around, we felt like we would be able to pick up the first down,”

Kelly said of the play. “We were going to run the football in that situation regardless, but it was just something that we had held on to and executed well. … We had a pretty good film. It’s one of those plays where you’re holding [it], and that was the right time for us.”

The Wildcats had all the momentum working in their favor in the fourth quarter and seven minutes of clock to work with and the Irish undeniably needed to score. Had they not, that 9-0 record might not still be intact heading into Week 10.

But Claypool cautioned against the team getting ahead of itself at this point in the season.

“We’ve got to stay humble.

Last year around this time, the rankings came out and then Miami happened,” he said. “So I think that’s why were coming out to these games and keeping our focus right, because you never know who can beat you.

You’ve got to keep working on it.”

Contact Elizabeth Greason at egreason@nd.edu

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Irish junior wide receiver Chase Claypool shakes off a Northwestern defender during Notre Dame’s 31-21 win on Saturday night at Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois. Claypool led all Irish receivers with eight receptions for 130 yards, both season highs for the British Columbia native. Irish head coach Brian Kelly awarded the game ball to Claypool for his efforts.

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After Notre Dame had gone up 24-7 with 13:05 left in the fourth quarter, Northwestern came roaring back with two-straight touchdowns to cut the Irish lead to three points.

Needing a score, Ian Book and the offense delivered, going 10 plays for 89 yards and eating up 4:20 of precious clock. On third down from the Wildcats’ 23-yard line, the junior executed a perfect call to put the game out of reach with a quarterback keeper.

In a game where the Irish struggled to run the ball, particularly in the first half, Claypool had his biggest game of the season to help lead Notre Dame to its ninth win. The junior led the team with eight receptions for 130 yards, but perhaps most importantly, broke up what would have been an interception deep in Irish territory late in the second quarter that would have given the Wildcats a chance to score and receive the ball.

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Dormitories cope with bat problem ND, SMC students, faculty weigh in on presence of bats in residence halls, other campus buildings

By NATALIE WEBER and JORDAN COCKRUM News Editor and Saint Mary’s Editor

It was the Saturday night before Halloween when senior Kevin Hottinger, a Sorin resident assistant on duty, heard the screams.

He raced up to the third floor of the dorm, where he found the cause of the commotion — a bat.

After grabbing the designated “bat net” in his rector’s office, he captured the animal and put it in the dorm’s workout room until Sue Beth Laskowski, a Rose Pest Solutions technician, could come.

“Coincidentally, she was coming from a Halloween party,” Hottinger said. “Of course, she was dressed as a bat.”

Between Aug. 14 and Oct. 30, Notre Dame received 11 reports of

bats in residence halls, including Badin and Sorin, Kim Kolk, assistant director of space planning and logistics, said in an email.

Sorin residents also keep an unofficial count of bats in their dorm, and totaled 21 bats between Aug. 17 and Oct. 30, sophomore Ben Walter said.

Saint Mary’s also has incidences of bats in their residence halls.

Seniors Annie Clare and Sarah Wehby had a bat in their room in Le Mans Hall during the first week of classes. After waking up at five in the morning, Clare said she felt a presence on her head.

“I touched my head, and [the bat] started like flying in my hair,” Clare said. “So I freaked out … I don’t know what I thought it was, see BATS PAGE 4

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Notre Dame’s Sorin Hall, among others, has experienced many bats in its dorm rooms. Sorin has already dealt with over 20 bats this year, an unofficial count, with Saint Mary’s hosting a number of bats as well.

Task forces aim to address Church sexual abuse crisis

By NATALIE WEBER News Editor

In response to the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis, Notre Dame is taking a twopronged approach.

University President Fr. John Jenkins announced in October the creation of two tasks forces focused on the crisis: a Campus Engagement Task Force and a Research and Scholarship Task Force. Listening sessions headed by the first task force begin Monday, with a total of seven sessions aimed at faculty, staff and students throughout the next two weeks.

“The University of Notre Dame has both an opportunity and an obligation to direct its thought, prayer and scholarly resources to helping the Church at this challenging moment,” Jenkins said in a statement to The Observer. “We are responding to this through the creation of two task forces that will address the issues at hand in different ways. In the end, we will assess the findings and provide tangible and productive suggestions for a way forward.

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“I am indebted to the leadership and members of both of the task forces as they take on this difficult work.”

Law professor Jennifer Mason McAward heads the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights and is serving as one of the co-chairs of the Campus Engagement Task Force. The committee will aim to bring the community together to gather ideas on how to address the current crisis, Mason McAward said.

“Notre Dame is a home to its students and an employer to its staff and faculty and so it’s also important to gather the community in a meaningful way and help people process their pain and also listen to their suggestions for how to move forward,” she said.

Fr. Gerry Olinger, vice president for mission engagement and church affairs, is serving as the other co-chair of the Campus Engagement Task Force. Following the campus listening sessions, the committee will use the comments to formulate recommendations for the University’s next steps forward, Olinger said.

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“We really want to encourage people to participate,” he said. “I think it’s really going to strengthen the work of our task force to have a broad representation of our campus community involved. It’s really going to strengthen the final product we’re able to produce.”

While part of the engagement task force’s mission is to help the community discuss and heal from the crisis, its purpose is not only pastoral, Mason McAward said.

“Pastoral care is one aspect of what we’re doing but thinking about other ways in which the University can seek prevention are certainly within our purview and things that we’d really like to hear about,” she said.

Ann Tenbrunsel, the David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics, said she sees a strong connection between the Campus Engagement Task Force and the Research and Scholarship Task Force, which she is co-chairing.

“I think the first step is listening, understanding,” she said.

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Professor predicts political changes

By TOM NAATZ Associate News Editor

Editor’s note: Throughout the 2018 midterm election season, The Observer will sit down with various student organizations and professors to discuss political engagement and issues particularly pertinent to students. In this seventh installment, the chair of the political science department discusses potential local impacts of midterm elections.

Millions of Americans will head to the polls to elect members of Congress, governors and numerous other state and local officials on Tuesday. While the implications of this vote will affect the entire nation, they will have some key impacts on college students and Notre Dame, Political Science department chair David Campbell said.

Campbell said he believes the elections will result in a series of important changes in the nation’s politics, predicting the Democratic Party will retake the majority in the House of

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Representatives.

“The short-term answer is I think the [so-called] ‘Blue Wave’ is real,” Campbell said. “Now whether that’s enough for the Democrats to take the Senate is unlikely. It does seem pretty likely they will take the House, and if they don’t it’s going to rest on a few quirky districts. So, we’re likely to see a surge of Democrats heading to Washington. That’s the short-term effect and would not be surprising — midterm elections usually lead to a loss of seats for the president’s party.”

However, Campbell said the election is indicative of an increase in political interest amongst young Americans. This effect, he believes, is more significant for the long-term.

“But I think there’s actually something more significant happening, which will matter for the long-term — we are seeing a surge of political interest and activity among Democrats that we’ve not seen in a very long time,“ Campbell said. “Especially see OUTCOMES PAGE 3

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Dr. Joshua John Diehl of the LOGAN Center, a Center for Social Concerns resource that focuses on supporting people with disabilities, visited Spes Unica Hall at Saint Mary’s on Friday for the first of several colloquiums about autism-related topics this year. The event was sponsored by the Saint Mary’s Master of Autism Studies program.

Diehl discussed the impact an autism diagnosis for one child can have on families of the child — especially for siblings. As evidence, Diehl cited his own experiences with his brother, Shane, and his research from working with siblings at the LOGAN Center.

“A lot of the previous research [is] on how having an autistic sibling can lead to behavioral issues,” Diehl said.

“It’s all clinical. There’s not a lot on the actual relationship between siblings, which is unfortunate because the relationships can be beautiful and they’re a lot more complex than just what could go wrong.”

Shane, Diehl’s younger brother, has a developmental disability, Diehl said.

“Shane is my inspiration,” he said.

“He has trouble communicating, but we know him. He’s his own person, he loves the Wisconsin Badgers and has a great sense of humor.”

Diehl said he has explained his struggles with describing Shane to friends.

It is a struggle many siblings face, he said, when pondering whether to lead descriptions with the disability and all that it entails, or by describing the person who enjoys jokes and planning his or her own birthday party.

“There is also a level of consciousness in public and at home most siblings have that others don’t,” Diehl said. “It’s the stigma of how your sibling acts, and the fact that they are different from your friends’ siblings of the same age.”

Diehl said he felt he needed to take care of Shane as a child. He promised his mother he would take care of his brother and did all he could to include Shane while growing up, but it became difficult later in life when Diehl went away for college and began to build his own family.

Now, Diehl said, Shane is doing well.

He has a job and lives in a home with his friends. However, Diehl’s research shows many siblings possess that uncertainty about the future and the need to help their parents and sibling without being a burden.

“A lot of siblings feel the need to only emphasize the good side of their relationship with an autistic brother or sister,” Diehl said. “They just refuse to talk negatively about them. The problem is, any sibling relationship,

developmental disability or otherwise, has its ups and downs. We must be willing to discuss all aspects of the relationship, good and bad.”

Not talking about issues can be a problem, Diehl said.

“Siblings often have trouble talking to parents and peers about their own issues,” he said. “There is a stigma around it and although many siblings have a strong desire to talk about it with someone who understands, they just don’t have the opportunity.”

The most important relationship in early childhood is that of siblings, Diehl asserted, and children who have developmentally-delayed siblings should be able to create and maintain those relationships without sacrificing their own desires.

Diehl acknowledged there are also difficulties for parents — they have a tendency to compare siblings or describe their children based on whether or not they have a disability.

“The most important thing is that parents are aware of how they sound and what they say,” Diehl said. “They need to make their children aware that they are open to listening, discussion and to take advantage of any opportunity to talk.”

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there now but I think we need to listen to as many people as we can. It’s part of the healing process; but really more than that, I think [it] can contain additional insight into … ‘What should we be doing?’”

Tenbrunsel said the committee will assess what expertise Notre Dame has to offer as well as initiatives spearheaded by outside institutions. It will then use this information to formulate the next steps in responding to the abuse crisis. Grounding the community’s suggestions with “evidence-based responses” is an important part of effective reform, Tenbrunsel said.

“You can reform and it can be ineffective and you can reform and it’s worse or you can reform and improve,” she said. “Clearly I don’t have any disagreement in what direction it should go, but I think basing it on expertise, as this task force is doing,

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among young people, we’re seeing an increased level of political engagement. Which suggests we have a generation now being forged, if you will, that will carry that level of political interest with them for the rest of their life.

Because if you get infected when you’re young, the infection usually stays with you.”

Despite this uptick in activism among young Americans, Campbell believes Notre Dame is a “rather apathetic” school when it comes to politics.

“I have to admit, even though nationwide we know there is a lot of attention being paid to this election, I wouldn’t say that it seems much different than past midterms on campus,” he said. “We’re a pretty politically quiet campus, and that has held up this year.”

If his prediction of a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives turns out to be accurate, Campbell said there will be key changes in how American politics operate. For example, he referenced the constitutional prerogative requiring Federal spending bills to originate in the House.

While he said “wholesale changes” are unlikely, a Democratic House will likely draw President Trump closer to the political center if he hopes to accomplish anything legislatively.

This outcome would also have a key effect on college students, Campbell explained. A Democratic-controlled House would be in a position to prevent any further changes to the Affordable Care Act, he said, particularly the provision allowing young people to stay on their parents’ insurance plans until they are 26.

“If the Democrats take the House, I cannot possibly see how the Affordable Care Act is going to … even [be] really tinkered with any further,” Campbell said. “They

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allows it more likelihood that that path will be followed.”

Professor Kathleen Sprows Cummings, director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, will also be co-chairing the Research and Scholarship Task Force. She said she hopes the task force will propose three or four research projects Notre Dame could undertake to address the crisis.

“It’s some chance to respond [to the crisis] as I am Catholic and a member of the laity, and to use the resources we have at Notre Dame too,” she said.

“This is not the only thing happening in the Church right now, but it is the most important thing happening in the Church and I think to not do something like this would be being complicit in the crisis in a way, by not trying to use your own expertise or gifts to move forward from this.”

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couldn’t do it when Republicans controlled both chambers, and so it seems even less likely the Democrats do it. And that matters.

Whether or not you stay on your parents’ plan until you‘re [26], you should probably care about that.”

While Campbell acknowledged that Indiana politics do not affect Notre Dame in a particularly momentous way, he said the outcome of the tightly-contested Indiana senate race between incumbent Democratic senator Joe Donnelly and Republican businessman Mike Braun could carry implications for South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg, a local politician who is rumored to hold higher political aspirations.

“This is an important election for the Senate race,” Campbell said.

“If Joe Donnelly, a Democrat, can hold onto his seat in Indiana, that does suggest that other Democrats could do the same. And that might matter for a guy you’ve probably heard of: Mayor Pete. I can guarantee you that Mayor Pete is watching this race very closely. If Joe Donnelly — who is personally popular, very centrist, one of the most conservative Democrats in the Senate — can’t hold onto his seat, it suggests that it would be very difficult for any Democrat to win statewide. If he can hold onto his seat, it does suggest an opening for other Democrats and that would put Mayor Pete at the top of the list. Mayor Pete doesn’t have a direct connection to Notre Dame, but he is the mayor of South Bend and he is much beloved here on campus.”

Regardless of the final outcome of Tuesday’s elections, Campbell encouraged Notre Dame students to become more politically engaged.

“I have mentioned that Notre Dame is not a very activist campus, and I think Notre Dame students could be a little more politically active,” he said.

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because I just felt its wings. And then I started to take it out and it started screaming.”

Eventually, Clare was able to detach the bat from her hair and it flew into her window between the glass and the screen. Clare and Wehby alerted the front desk attendant, and security was able to capture the bat before releasing it later.

“One of the biggest issues was after they caught the bat, they let it go,” Wehby said. “Everyone was like, you’re supposed to keep it and test it for rabies because if it didn’t have rabies, we didn’t need the shot. But they just let the bat go.”

The administration released the bat from Clare and Wehby’s room rather than testing it because they were not aware it had come into contact with the students, Saint Mary’s vice president of student affairs Karen Johnson said.

“The student that came and said the bat that had been on her, we did not capture that bat because we did not know until the bat had been taken out that it had [been on her],” Johnson said. “But from now on if a student says they have been touched by a bat we will try to capture that bat.”

Saint Mary’s director of security Dave Gariepy said while the incident in Clare and Wehby’s room occurred before Saint Mary’s had bat protocol, in the future the school will capture bats for rabies testing to ensure students’ well-being.

“If it’s a situation in which it would be in a student’s room and the student is sleeping and so we wouldn’t really know if there was close contact, then we would want to capture the bat, send it to the health department for testing to see if it’s rabid — which it’s very rare that they are,” Gariepy said.

Saint Mary’s bat protocol was adopted this fall, Gariepy said.

Johnson said it came from existing Notre Dame protocol.

“We’ve never had a student who felt like the bat had been on them, so we just took Notre Dame’s protocol,” Johnson said. “They sent it to me and we did what they do.”

Notre Dame’s bat protocol involves contacting Rose Pest Solutions, a pest management vendor, “to immediately capture the bat for release or testing” when one is found in a building on campus, Kolk said.

“When this happens, Rose Pest also analyzes the residence hall or building and reports any visible potential cause for bats, which is addressed by the University’s Facilities staff or the building manager,” she said.

Kolk said Notre Dame also takes steps to decrease the number of bats in dorms. These efforts include “building bat houses around campus in an effort to keep bats in bat houses and out of halls/academic buildings,” tightening screens and fan filters and running vents in buildings to keep bats out of them, “installing door sweeps, metal cages, and other mechanisms on halls to deter bat entry” and instructing students to keep doors and windows shut to prevent bat entry.

Last April, Walter wrote a Letter

to the Editor in The Observer about the bat issue in Sorin. He said he feels the University’s response to the issue has improved since then.

“They really kicked it into gear at the beginning of this year to try to get [the bats] all kicked out,” he said. “They went into everybody’s room and sealed their windows and made sure their screens were good so I really felt like they did a lot to combat it this year.”

Johnson also said Saint Mary’s looked to biology professor Laura Kloepper for advice, due to her extensive research of bats. Kloepper’s focus is in echolocation.

Most incidents of bats in living spaces is due to bats finding it hard to escape. Bats can go into spaces as small as a dime, Kloepper said.

“What happens is when they take up residence in the summer, and then students start to come back into the dorm, and they’re moving around and making all these sounds, and that wakes up the bats and the bats get confused.,” Kloepper said.

Gariepy said Saint Mary’s security has not received a call reporting a bat in a residence hall since Sept.

5, 2018.

“The buildings are just old, and they’re large, and bats really can just find easy access to buildings when they’re such big buildings,” Gariepy said.

The majority of bats reported on campus are not in students’ rooms, Gariepy and Johnson emphasized, but rather in the hallways.

Rabies is “100 percent fatal,” Kloepper said, so if there is a possibility of contact, preventative measures must be taken. However, testing the bat for rabies requires killing the bat, so the ideal course of action is to avoid contact.

“If any individual has had an encounter with a bat, it’s recommended that the bat try to be caught to bring [it] in for testing,” Kloepper said. “Unfortunately, it means that the bat has to be sacrificed or killed for the test because you have to kill the bat to do the test.”

While the risk of contracting rabies is small, Kolk said, if a person touches a bat, or wakes up to one in their room, Notre Dame encourages students to visit University Health Services or a physician.

“Only a very small percentage of bats carry rabies; however, if a person is bitten by a bat with rabies, once the symptoms begin to manifest, it is too late to treat the disease and it is nearly 100 percent fatal,” she said. “As such, we strongly recommend students who may have had potential exposure to seek proactive treatment, but we cannot require them to do so.”

Students need only worry if they came in contact with a bat, Kloepper said. Otherwise, they do not pose any risk.

“As long as you’re not touching it, and you’re not interacting with that bat in any way, having it just flying around the dorm, it’s no reason to be concerned,” Kloepper said.

“The best thing to do is be as calm as possible, separate yourself from the bat and then call security.”

Contact Natalie Weber at nweber@nd.edu and Jordan Cockrum at jcockrum01@saintmarys.edu

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By Ahlering Jackoboice and Nia Sylva Scene Writers

TV shows featuring a strong female lead are not something easily found in the abyss that is our Netflix feed.

Even more difficult to stumble upon, is an almost entirely female-led show. The Netflix original adaptation of the classic “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” breaks that mold.

“The Chilling Adventure of Sabrina” comes from the creators of “Riverdale,” and with that in mind I feared I’d find it, much like “Riverdale,” riddled with boy crazy girls and pointless plot lines. However, I was more than pleasantly surprised with the creators’ execution of something almost completely the opposite. For starters, the atmosphere and setting of this show are stunning.

Greendale is a cloudy, grey and ominous little town with an even darker past. The visual details imbued in everything from costumes to props make Sabrina’s world look like a slightly twisted version of ours. This sense of seeing the “real world” in a funhouse mirror — a feeling aided by the rather ambiguous time period in which everything is taking place — sets the viewer on edge and allows one to suspend their disbelief. We know what we’re seeing, but it doesn’t look quite right; therefore, anything is possible.

Within the first five minutes of the show we witness, with no context, a young woman kill Sabrina’s teacher then enter the woman’s body to take her place,

By Nora McGreevy Scene Editor

I often watch cooking shows for the same reasons that people watch videos of magicians. I am terrible in the kitchen, but I like to live vicariously through obscenely talented chefs — to marvel at the deft slice of a knife and the confident flourish of a whisk. In shows like “Chef’s Table” on Netflix, I marvel at the fantastical wonders of high-end restaurants around the globe. It’s intoxicating.

Enter a new four-part Netflix documentary, “Salt Fat Acid Heat,” hosted by the award-winning author-turnedTV host Samin Nosrat. Unlike the magical realism of other cooking shows, Nosrat’s show has a uniquely democratic message. “Good cooking is universal. The ingredients may change, but the fundamentals are the same,” she preaches.

Her style, unfussy and approachable, is markedly different from the single-minded perfectionism of some high-brow chefs, despite the fact that Nosrat has an elite culinary background. In the show, her voiceovers are simple and clear, eschewing technical language for precise and beautiful metaphors, reminiscent of her work as a writer.

In each of the show’s 40-minute-long episodes, Nosrat dives into a detailed exploration of what she labels the four

immediately cultivating in the viewer a feeling of uneasiness and fear. The dramatic irony involved with the secret identity of Sabrina’s teacher is certainly effective.

I found myself increasingly frightened as I made discoveries along with Sabrina, my shock and disbelief mirroring Sabrina’s own confusion. Sabrina — played by the impeccable Kiernan Shipka — is a capable lead, doing well to express defiance, confusion and uncertainty in equal parts. She is always believable, acting in a way that is authentic in its representation of the teenage experience, and her character is bold, vulnerable and full of ingenuity. In the hands of a lesser actress, Sabrina would appear overly-affected and contrived, her rebellions earnest but cliche. Unfortunately, the show fails to develop some of its other characters. Sabrina’s boyfriend Harvey is rather one-dimensional, and early attempts to develop his character fall mostly flat. In fact, Harvey is little more than a plot device, as are Sabrina’s friends, Roz and Susie.

Sabrina’s struggles with her identity within mortal society and the Church of Night are a metaphor for the perceived challenges faced by most young girls. The show’s beginning episodes present a dichotomy of oppression, both in the mortal and supernatural realms; when Susie is bullied by a group of jocks, the school’s corrupt male leadership does nothing to help. Similarly, Sabrina discovers that the Church of Night, an institution that was lauded as a celebration of free will and personal choice, proves to be just as stifling and patriarchal as the town

essential aspects of good cooking: fat, salt, acid, heat. She begins the series in Italy, shaking olives from trees and crying over slices of aged parmesan, then moves on to exploring miso in Japan and puckering her lips at sour oranges in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. Each episode loosely equates a place with a fundamental taste — Italy for fat, Japan for salt and more — but also incorporates many kinds of recipes and examples into the exploration of a theme, building an argument for Nosrat’s universalized system of food.

Like “Chef’s Table,” the camera work in “Salt Fat Acid Heat” is sublime. Yet where other cooking shows tend to speed through a montage of images of incredible dishes in a frenzy, this camera, like Nosrat herself, takes its time.

The viewer is invited to linger on beautiful doorknobs, salivate over the sizzle of a steak and gasp at the thin wisps of floury dust rising from a batch of freshly-cut pasta dough.

With her platform, Nosrat also pushes back against the macho ethos of other cooking shows. Many critics, in writing about this show, have noted that nearly all of the experts Nosrat calls upon in the show are women. We also often see Nosrat in a kitchen, with a woman beside her, learning how to prepare a dish — not unlike how many women learn to cook in real life. Nosrat is a classically-trained chef with international pedigree, but she exhibits a profound appreciation for the home kitchen as the traditional center of domestic labor and good food. In a scene in Italy, Nosrat

of Greendale itself. In signing her name in the Book of the Beast, Sabrina realizes that she is really signing away her soul. The harassment Sabrina faces from the Weird Sisters — who should be her allies — seems to parallel the infighting of similarly subjected women (infighting that has recently been recognized and scorned by feminists, especially in the of the #MeToo movement).

Moreover, almost every dimension of the show is marked by fighting between the genders. Sabrina’s worlds collide when she is tried in the Church of Night for “breach of promise” and forced to fight for her autonomy. Both the human world and the witch world claim to “own” Sabrina, and she is forced to choose, but neither of her options appear particularly appealing. However, “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” presents a hopeful solution to what appears to be a widespread and fullyingrained patriarchy and an inescapable dilemma. The solution is Sabrina herself. She manages to choose a middle path between the Church and her former life, keeping her head on her shoulders despite a constant barrage of hardships. The solution to the continuing problem of female oppression, “Sabrina” suggests, is women themselves — especially young women. Overall, the show is a stunning display of female strength in numbers and a refreshing break from the cliches of male led series.

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kneads dough and describes the effort of the work. “I can feel it in my haunches,” she describes, and then notes how women over the centuries have developed ways of kneading so as to minimize the intensity of the work, which can be exhausting on one’s body. Preparation of meals is not all glitz and glamour, she implicitly reminds her audience.

Food is hard work.

Most cooking shows rely on a spirit of discovery to add a dimension of excitement to the show. A singular personality host, often American, will jetset around the globe, tracking down the mysterious “source” of a particular flavor. Nosrat’s show buys into this trope to a degree, but it also subverts it. She has gathered around her a circle of experts and friends — many of them friends who also happen to be experts — to teach her and learn from her about umami, egg pasta and how to braise beef short ribs. A collaborative spirit pervades the four episodes. It’s no surprise that the end of each episode ends with a meal, where Nosrat sits and eats with her friends, the conversation punctured by her bright smile and infectious laugh.

Salt, fat, acid and heat are all there, on the table — but their product, community, seems to be another essential ingredient of her practice, and something which Nosrat inspires in each place she travels.

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Envisioning a just wage economy

Inside Column

The ‘food’ of North Dining Hall Connor Mulvena Associate Sports Editor

This week, The Observer featured a heated debate about access to pornography on campus. Authors on both sides of the debate called to mind questions of morality, with one side labeling pornography as an “affront to human rights.” I’m sure the discussion will develop in days to come, but for now, I would like to point your attention to another issue, with similarly heavy moral and human rights implications, which has taken a backseat on campus. The “food” of North Dining Hall.

Let me be clear, I do not mean to insult any of the staff of North Dining Hall — they are always friendly, kind and helpful. My problem lies with the “food.”

I use scare quotes because I know of no other word to describe what is served on most days in that building and to simply call it food would be an undeserving compliment.

For me, this issue is far more fundamental and concerning than that explored in the much talked of porn debate this week.

I tried to tune into the debate. I even thought about lending my own thoughts, perhaps joining the conversation in a productive manner. But, I was simply too malnourished. I had eaten what I thought was meatloaf, but could have been part of an old used yoga mat, and I was feeling delirious.

I think many people agree that the food at NDH tends to be rather, how do I say this diplomatically? Horrifying. Yeah, that’s it — it’s horrifying. But it still feels like there are a ton of people who love the dining hall food, even look forward to certain items.

Sometimes I’ll hear people in my dorm call their buddies to dinner saying things like, “Hey! It’s burrito night, let’s go beat the rush!” or “I had a great Fall Break, but gee, I sure missed the dining hall!” It makes me wonder if we have a masochism problem on campus.

You want to talk about an “affront to human rights” — go to NDH and grab a piece of grilled chicken. You would think grilled chicken could be a solid backup option. “If I don’t like what’s being served tonight, I can always grab some chicken!” You certainly could, or you could stay back at your dorm and gnaw on your desk for sustenance. I could break someone’s jaw with that chicken. Some states would require you to register said chicken as a lethal weapon. Some days, it’s as dry as the Sahara and as hard as a rock. Others, I question if it was ever cooked at all.

The other day, I walked into the dining hall and saw nothing that quite tickled my fancy, so I decided to make a salad. I got some spinach, a few other vegetables and decided to just put some balsamic vinegar on it. Already disgruntled by the fact that I was eating a salad, I took a bite only to find out the balsamic vinegar was soy sauce. I put my plate away, walked back to my dorm, and began working on a transfer application which I have since deleted after a weekend away from the dining hall.

None of it makes any sense to me. I can walk into the library and take out any book I want or reserve a high tech study room all to myself. I can walk into the JACC and play basketball on a beautiful hardwood court. I can go to Duncan and exercise with world class resources at my disposal. But I can’t eat a cheeseburger for lunch without risking a chipped tooth? As a community, we need to look out for each other, we need to be better. And I can think of nothing as moral as making sure our peers are well fed.

Contact Connor Mulvena at cmulvena@nd.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

Dan Graff Just Wages

Economic inequality should be considered the most pressing issue of our time, but unfortunately two generations of politicians and policymakers have failed to confront it, in marked contrast to Americans of the New Deal era (the subjects of my two prior columns).

At all levels, from individual households to titanic corporations, problems of pay demand our attention, intersecting related struggles for inclusion and equality. Persistent gender wage gaps, stubborn discrepancies in unemployment rates by race, and widening gulfs between the salaries of executives and everyone else — all these point to the fundamental problem of alarming and increasing income disparities.

Here in the US, far too many people struggle with making ends meet on a weekly basis. Living hand to mouth, too many households must rely on multiple wage earners (sometimes working multiple jobs), and even those who do get by are only one work accident, job loss or family illness removed from disaster. In short, too many people are increasingly compelled to participate in what we might call a “just hope and pray” economy, where they literally must hope and pray that they and their loved ones will avoid a variety of worst-case scenarios each day.

Taking Catholic Social Teaching (CST) as inspiration, in particular Pope John Paul II’s claim that “a just wage is the concrete means of verifying the justice of the whole socioeconomic system,” the Higgins Labor Program at the Center for Social Concerns is confronting the question of increasing inequality by convening an interdisciplinary group of scholars and students drawn from the humanities, social sciences, business, and law. This Just Wage Working Group probes the foundational question: What makes any given wage just or unjust?

Our response has been the development of a Just Wage Framework identifying seven criteria that collaborate to compose a just wage. In our view, a just wage must: 1. enable a decent life for the worker and her household; 2. permit asset-building; e. offer basic social security; 4. bear no taint of discrimination of any kind; 5. not be excessive; 6. reflect participation by workers; and 7. consider performance, qualification,and type of work. We are currently converting these criteria into an online Just Wage Tool, which we hope to unveil in spring 2019.

Our approach is designed to promote reflection, dialogue and action by not only employers and workers, but also professors, policymakers, professionals and parishes — that is, all stakeholders invested in moving us away from a “just hope and pray” economy and toward a “just wage” economy. We also think it offers a way to circumvent the bitter fights that dominate our public sphere while at the same time not avoiding the challenging questions about rights, fairness and opportunity that bedevil the contemporary workplace.

We live in particularly polarizing times, where politics and economics get pitched by partisans as zerosum endeavors with winners and losers separated by borders both geographical and cultural. But our Just Wage approach takes a different tack, foregrounding the multiple interconnections linking all of us. Here are a few examples.

First, by listing seven core criteria but not ranking them in importance, we aim to underscore their interlocking and inseparable nature, visualized less as bullet points and and more as a honeycomb of hexagons. Because the criteria are not ranked, our hope is that those with different perspectives will find this inviting rather than off-putting. Moreover, by asserting the importance of inclusion (a just wage must be free from discrimination), we foreclose any sidestepping of the racial and gender segmentation that unfortunately still structures labor markets in the U.S. (a half-century after the Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination in employment).

Second, as the image of a honeycomb of hexagons suggests, we see the Just Wage Framework embedded within, and intimately connected to, broader political, social and environmental structures — a reminder that a wage, whether just or unjust, is not solely determined by the employer-employee relationship. It is also shaped by government policies on everything from health care to housing, from transportation to training and education. Whether embodied in legislation or not, however, certain core values, again rooted in CST, undergird our Just Wage Framework: a belief in the dignity of every human person, a commitment to the common good, and a fidelity to the practice of sustainability — not only at the level of the natural environment, but also at the level of the organization.

In other words, when advocating for the promotion of a just wage, we must be sensitive to sustainability on multiple levels, from the ongoing vitality of the natural habitat within which the economy operates to the long-term viability of the individual enterprise employing and paying workers.

Third, while we have rooted our efforts in CST principles, the Just Wage Framework and Tool are designed for use by any and all stakeholders (Catholic and non-Catholic alike). Because CST appeals to fundamental, widely shared, values, we believe these principles should be transferable to people regardless of religious affiliation. Beyond that, CST’s insistence on humans as inherently relational and social beings facilitates a framework foregrounding interconnectedness, inviting us to think not only about minimums (wage floors and poverty thresholds) but also maximums (wage ceilings and excessiveness), as well as the relationship between the two. Ultimately, then, CST principles have helped us distinguish our Just Wage Framework from other “living wage” models through an emphasis less on dollar figures, especially minimums and more on a holistic view combining many components, both quantitative and qualitative.

A just wage, as we envision it, is more robust and relational than other wage conceptualizations, and we hope our Just Wage Framework and Tool will promote public and private-sector policies not only rooted in widely shared values but also conducive to more widely shared wealth.

Professor Graff teaches courses on labor, race, gender and politics in the Department of History. He also directs the Higgins Labor Program at the Center for Social Concerns, where he co-convenes the Just Wage Working Group, a research collaborative investigating what makes any given wage just or unjust. He can be reached at dgraff@nd.edu.

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An election reflection Andrew Linschke Yeah, It’s An Act in Progress(ivism)

I experienced my first election day thrill on Nov. 4, 2008. If you’ll recall, that day was the culmination of years of campaigning and diligent politicization that led to the victory and subsequent assumption of the first black man to the presidency of the United States. I was eleven.

I cannot understate my desperate supplication at my parents’ feet, begging and pleading to stay up later and later and later to see the final tally. It was the biggest election of my life and I wanted to relish in every moment. Poignant moments from that night quickly engraved themselves into the grey matter of my limbic system serving as a permanent epitaph to any future political apathy, an enduring etching of hope, an undying impression of American democracy at its finest.

I remember the ephemerality of that green check next to Barack Hussein Obama’s name and photograph as North Carolina swung blue by the smallest of margins (.33 percent if my limbic system serves me right). I remember the astonishment in my parents’ eyes.

I remember the juvenile excitement for school the next day, ready to break out the bodacious “I told you so” dance for my friends whose parents voted for McCain; for all my friends who, as impressionable eleven-year-olds, had propagated some of the worst playground conspiracy theories; for all my friends who had made jokes about Obama’s racial identity and his supposed communism and the downfall of America under an Obama presidency.

I remember waking up every few minutes, sneaking out of my room, down the hallway toward the ever-brightening light of my parents’ TV, quietly

peeking into the infinitesimally cracked door to “make sure” he really did win.

With election day tomorrow, a short ten years after that memorable night of presidential excellence and hope, I can’t help but grieve for the naivete of my youth. I can’t help but grieve for the assumed infallibility of American democracy. I can’t help but mourn the loss of reason and honesty and decency and integrity and hope in our political consciousness.

When I think about politics today, no longer is Barack Obama and his idealism the image in my head. No longer do I think about the passage of the Affordable Care Act and how that gave over 300,000 Hoosiers (alone) access to healthcare. No longer do I think about economic stimulus and America miraculously swimming to the surface from the abyss of recession. No longer do I think about an increase of LGBTQ rights. No longer do I think about the pacification of the Middle East through historic nuclear disarmament. No longer do I think about a government writing and executing legislation aimed at helping the ordinary American. No longer do I think about an executive seeking to eliminate the lines that delineate Americans from each other.

When I think about politics today, I see red. I see the red-faced anger and hatred of Donald Trump and his accomplices. I see 54 different house votes attempting to repeal the evils of Obamacare. I see the hypocritical acceptance of a 1.5 trillion dollar budget deficit. I see stagnant wages and an ebb in job growth. I see the erasure of transgender people in our executive administration’s lexicon. I see an inflammation of tensions in the Middle East and war mongering for electoral support. I see an executive seeking to stoke fear of “the other” and deepen natural lines of division into trenches of demarcation.

I hate that this is the way my understanding of

American politics has digressed. I hate that cynicism has pierced through my political nature. To be fair to myself, though, I think the cynicism 100 percent justified. My growing belief in the illegitimacy and vitriolic nature of America’s democratic institutions is not unique. Maybe it’s just a “young voter” thing. Maybe it’s just me.

Regardless, it doesn’t have to be this way. Our political system doesn’t have to operate as an alienated projection of power beyond our control. It’s built to do the opposite, in fact.

Yesterday — Sunday, Nov. 4 —I found myself in Gary, Ind. at a “get out the vote rally.” Barack Obama happened to be one of the various speakers stumping in support of current Indiana senator Joe Donnelly. Where my message revolves around lamentations of cynicism at the growth of hatred and fear in our politics, Barack Obama’s message revolved around his favorite theme — hope.

Something he said specifically stood out to me: “the only antidote to a politics of division and hatred is a politics of hope.” But this hope is not inevitable. It takes work. It takes the work of voters, the ordinary human beings that make this democracy possible. So, while my reflection is much more cynical than Barack Obama’s, I do share in his diagnosis.

2018 is an immensely important election: it will decide whether we want a politics of hatred or a politics of hope.

Don’t become alienated. Vote for hope. That’s the true antidote.

Drew is an award-winning alcohol evangelist, recovering coffee addict, finger drumming enthusiast and big-time social justice guy. He loves receiving both fan and hate mail- send it his way at alischke@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A plea to vote on Tuesday This Tuesday, we have the mid-term elections.

There have been reports that say that there is a good chance voter turn-up is going to be up this year, especially among younger voters. In a period that is marked by extreme partisanship, I think it’s more important than ever to reach out and ask that ever yone get out to the polls and vote on Tuesday. W hile partisanship isn’t something that is going to be fixed overnight, something we can do at the ver y least is make sure our elections are representative of the sentiments that Americans have.

Our democracy is one that requires the participation of the public in order to function properly, and the more people get out, the more likely it is that our government w ill represent its citizens. W hen you look back, it’s almost cra zy to imagine that people in our countr y fought and died to protect the idea of libert y through democracy. Now we have to reach out — w ith articles like this — to get people, especially the younger voters, to simply exercise that right.

But, I’m w illing to reach out and I hope those reading this w ill reach out to others too. Working

to make our elected officials better represent our interests is worth the effort. We are extremely luck y that we decide who gets to take on the power of elected office. Many Americans have died in order to protect that right, don’t let their efforts be for waste because voting seems inconvenient.

Get out and vote on Tuesday, Nov. 6 !

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Divvy up your time wisely, and stay focused on long-term plans. Don’t feel obligated to give too much to groups, causes or people when you should be putting greater emphasis on home, family and selfimprovement. If you want to do something helpful, consider donations.

Your time is valuable and should be put toward getting ahead personally and professionally. Your numbers are 5, 12, 23, 25, 29, 33, 42.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Charm, cooperation and lending a helping hand will play in your favor. How others perceive you will lead to new friendships as well as the chance to start a partnership with someone who shares your interests and concerns.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Take nothing and no one for granted. Be willing to do your part and to share responsibilities. Your input will speak volumes about who you are and what you stand for. An honest assessment and opinion will help you prove your point.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Participate and share with those who have similar likes and dislikes. You will develop a rapport with someone who has something to offer you. Physical fitness or challenges will lead to a healthy lifestyle and future personal gains.

CANCER ( June 21-July 22): Keep your emotions in check when dealing with family matters. Personal change can be gratifying. Update your image and appearance, and you’ll receive compliments that will help build confidence.

An opening will turn into an opportunity to improve your life.

LEO ( July 23-Aug. 22): Taking on too much will lead to exhaustion or financial setbacks. Weigh the pros and cons before you agree to help others.

Stick close to home and focus on nurturing an important relationship and taking care of domestic concerns. Romance is highlighted.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Consider the possibilities and decide how best to incorporate positive change into your life. Sign up for an interesting course or attend a reunion; it will lead to information that will help you move forward personally.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Share your feelings and find out exactly where you stand. What you discover is that truth can be liberating and can help you put who you are and what you want first and foremost. Love is in the stars.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t let anyone make you feel guilty. You are best to put your time into whatever will improve your life, not someone else’s. Offer suggestions, but when it comes down to the labor involved, focus on yourself and your future.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Live life your way. Being true to yourself and your beliefs will make it easier to attract someone who shares your values. Whether you are looking for a friend, lover or someone to collaborate with professionally, honesty is the best policy.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t limit what you can do because you are afraid of what others might think. Do what pleases you and makes you feel good about who you are and what you have accomplished. Take your turn in the spotlight.

AQUARIUS ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Let others do as they please. Live within your means and focus on what’s important to you; you’ll have no regrets as your day unfolds. Personal improvements, a little romantic interaction and financial gains should be your priorities.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t mix emotions and money. Concentrate on building equity and stabilizing your financial future. Don’t let anyone talk you into being extravagant or living excessively. Walk away from those exhibiting bad habits and enticing you to follow suit.

Birthday Baby: You are helpful, considerate and kind. You are changeable and interesting.

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Observing the early-season NBA Charlotte Edmonds Associate Sports Editor

Only 10 games into the 82game NBA season and things are starting to shake out as teams work through injuries and new additions. Although no significant conclusions can be made until at least the All-Star break, these are my much-too-soon observations.

Minnesota Timberwolves Featuring the backcourt duo of Jimmy Butler and Derrick Rose, the Wolves are essentially a rebranded 20112016 Chicago Bulls with a lot more drama. In his second season in Minneapolis, Butler made it clear to the entire fanbase that he has no loyalty to the city or team, demanding a trade that has been denied to this point in the season. Meanwhile, Rose has suffered a series of injuries that have ultimately hurt his image, often defying doctors’ recommendations that he was cleared to play. However, his 50-point performance at home Wednesday night over the Utah Jazz showed this might be the fresh start he needs. Of course, that game was followed by a three-point performance by Rose that was ended after only five minutes of play due to ankle soreness.

Stay tuned to see whether this veteran duo can cook up a recipe for success with Andrew Wiggins and Karl Anthony-Towns as the drama both on and off the court plays out.

Oklahoma City Thunder Just as quickly as the panic set in for Oklahoma City following an 0-4 start, the Thunder clawed back to .500 with six of their next seven matchups against some of the worst teams in the league.

Those four consecutive wins have shown this team is no longer susceptible to those same 3rd quarter meltdowns they were plagued with all last season. A 39-10 run against the Clippers to open the second half earned the Thunder an 18-point win followed by a routing of the Wizards that included a staggering 79 points before halftime by Billy Donovan’s team. Even as

Russell Westbrook approaches his 30th birthday, his leadership on the team will always dictate that this team plays fast, aggressive and sometimes downright dumb. As frustrating as that is, you can never count the Thunder out as they’re capable of a comeback at any point.

Houston Rockets/Los Angeles Lakers After falling just short of making the NBA finals in game seven against the Warriors, expectations were high for Mike D’Antoni’s team.

Eight games in, and with only three meager wins over teams, all of whom are outside the playoff picture, the Rockets’ disappointing start proves this team has some serious issues to be addressed.

The three-game hiatus by James Harden due to an injury to a strained left hamstring, in addition to Carmelo Anthony’s poor shot selection, has hampered Houston as it looks to work out its rotation.

One of their three wins came to the Lakers, a team similarly struggling with all the starpower of a legit contender.

They’ve managed to grind out a respectable 4-5 start, but it hasn’t been pretty, with all but one of those games being decided by less than 10 points.

Denver Nuggets/ Milwaukee Bucks Probably the two biggest overachievers to start the season both sit in second place in their respective conferences, with all eyes on them to see if this early success can be sustained. Until this past week, when the Bucks went 2-1 against three playoff-caliber teams, they hadn’t faced much competition. Meanwhile, Denver has picked up wins over the Warriors and Kings.

In the middle of November, the Nuggets will embark on a long road stretch, playing nine of their 11 games away from the Pepsi Center, which could prove to be the indicator as to whether they’re legit or not.

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14, and tied senior middle blocker Meg Morningstar in leading the team in blocks with seven apiece. Nunez had 35 assists and DeJarld had another 15 digs in the win.

Unlike Friday’s game in which Notre Dame recorded 25 total errors, the team only had 10 on Sunday.

In the first set against the

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men’s 500-yard free, recording a time of 4:20.34, breaking yet another one of his own records. In the 200-yard breaststroke, the Irish women swept the competition coming in first, second and third, led by O’Donnell, followed closely by freshmen Sammie Eyolfson and Sarah Nicholls.

Hurricanes, Notre Dame dominated throughout as Miami never once conceding the lead. The second set was a tighter contest as the teams were tied multiple times culminating at a 2121 deadlock. However, the Irish pulled away to win the set 25-22. The third set was an offensive display by the Irish as they posted 17 total kills in the frame. However, Miami managed to keep the score close, but Niego and senior outside hitter Rebecca

Nunge recorded timely kills to give the Irish another 2522 set win and complete the sweep.

The Irish will return to Purcell Pavilion to host North Carolina State this Friday before heading south to Tallahassee, Florida, for a rematch against the Seminoles on Nov. 11. With four games of ACC play remaining in the regular season, the Irish are currently ranked fourth in the conference.

On the boards, the women claimed four of the top six spots in the one-meter dive.

The men also took third and fourth place in both 1-meter and 3-meter dives. However, the biggest pickup for the diving unit came on junior Erin Isola’s first-place finish on the 3-meter board. Isola’s win capped off a weekend where the Irish finished with 22 first-place finishes.

After a successful meet highlighted by several record

breaking performances, the Irish will have their next meet on Friday at the ACC/ Big Ten Challenge in West Lafayette, Indiana, before heading to Columbus, Ohio, the following week to participate in the Ohio State Fall Invitational to close out the fall season. The Irish will return to Rolfs Aquatic Center one more time this season as they prepare to host the Shamrock Invitational on Jan. 25.

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Cale Morris for a 6-on-5 advantage, the Irish couldn’t manage to send the game to overtime.

Morris tallied 22 saves on the night, but the offense couldn’t do enough to secure a victory.

Solid goaltending on both sides continued into Saturday night, but the Irish managed to edge it out after a clutch goal from senior forward Joe Wegwerth in the

final period.

The first period saw no scoring in South Bend, but both sides managed to put 13 shots on goal. But a little over three minutes into the second period, Mason Jobst struck again for the Buckeyes, handing his squad a 1-0 lead with a lot of hockey to play. And halfway through the period, sophomore forward Colin Theisen found the back of the net thanks to the assist from junior forward Cam Morrison.

The second period remained

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scoreless after that, and overtime seemed likely well into the third period. But senior forward Joe Wegwerth netted an unassisted goal to hand the Irish the victory.

The win was Irish head coach Jeff Jackson’s 300th of his career at Notre Dame. When he reflected on his time at Notre Dame, he said he was thankful for the people around him.

“You know, for me it’s just about the ride. It’s been such a great ride here at Notre Dame,” Jackson said. “I had a great experience up at [Lake Superior State], but this experience has been even better. Just with the people, our staff, our incredible staff, starting with our strength coach … and all of my assistant coaches. You know it’s just, everybody knows their job, everybody has bought in and they just create a great environment for the players to buy in. So it’s been a great 14 years. 300 wins, you know, I think that record is way overused as far as coaches wins, because there’s a lot of people involved behind each win.”

“We all care about each other,

and Notre Dame does a great job of taking care of its people, and not just from the financial perspective. I’m just talking about overall. It’d be a hard place to leave, in any role. And they’re loyal people. I’m a loyal guy, and we have loyal people. We’ve had our tough years, and we’ve had a lot of great years. It’s just a matter of having the right people around you is what makes you successful.”

For Jackson, Saturday night’s win was extremely important for the young squad’s confidence, and he looks forward to the upperclassmen taking on important roles as the season goes on.

“We needed it for our confidence … It’s really about our older guys taking charge, our veteran guys, and I’ve made that known to them,” Jackson said.

“They need to grab a hold of the roles that they’ve never had before. Joe Wegwerth scored the game winner tonight, and he’s been a fourth liner for three years. And guys have got to grab a hold of that and say ‘hey this is mine, I want to be successful, I

want to be part of a great team,’ and we have to take on additional roles. And I think that’s what we’re going through a little bit with our power play right now.

I think that we’ve got the right ingredients, it’s just a matter of finding the right chemistry right now.

Going forward, the Irish will continue to fight through a tough Big Ten schedule, and Jackson made it clear that not every win is going to be pretty and the team needs to understand that.

“We’re playing very good teams,” Jackson said. “The schedule is a bear for us right now. We have to go through a lot of games like this this year. Up until this weekend, we’ve had pretty good starts, and [Saturday night] we didn’t necessarily. I thought we were better [Friday night] actually, overall. But the thing is, is that, like I’ve said in the past, good teams have to win ugly, and tonight was a little bit ugly for us.”

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away,” Riley said. ”Soccer typically opens up a little bit more after the 60, 65th minute, that’s where the mistakes start happening and a lot of goals get scored. But, we’re proud to shut teams down in the first half and it makes it a 45 minute game to win it.”

In the second half, Notre Dame pushed forward to try and break the draw. In the 58th minute, senior forward Thomas Ueland fired a strike from the left side of the box, but missed wide by mere inches. Moments later in the 65th minute, senior forward Ian Aschieris would draw a foul in the attacking third of the field.

Notre Dame’s senior forward Sean MacLeod took the free kick and hit the post, almost scoring the game’s opening goal.

The Cardinals would finally break open the game in the 86th minute off a counter-attack down that was capped off with a header from Louisville senior forward Tate Schmitt. The hosts would take the lead and hold on in the waning moments of the game to book their ticket to the ACC Tournament semifinals.

Riley noted the team was disappointed with the result given the Irish had many chances to score. Nevertheless, he is proud of the team’s recent performances.

“We’re very disappointed in the result, I thought we were unfortunate,“ Riley said. ”For the most part, we created some really quality chances that we weren’t able to capitalize on. We really limited [Louisville] to one good chance that they were able to capitalize on.”

This loss was indicative of how much of the season has gone — last minute losses against one of the hardest schedules in the country.

“For the most part I’m very proud of the group. I think we’re all very disappointed by the result but, [I’m] proud of their performance especially, in the amount of games that we’ve

played over the last three weeks,” Riley said. ”We’ll make use of this time [without games] but, it’ll certainly hurt for a couple of days not to be moving on in the ACC Tournament.”

Riley said following a tough loss like the one they suffered to the Cardinals, it is important for team leaders to prove why they’re leaders.

“I think it’s important to kind of absorb — you want to remember that feeling of losing. We know we’re right there with everybody that’s got a chance to win a national championship and we’re a very committed group as we chase that goal now. The seniors do a good job of reassuring the younger guys and picking them up and getting them refocused,” Riley said. “I’m sure [the seniors] will be doing that over the next couple of days.”

As the Irish now await the NCAA Championship, they will not know who they will compete against until Nov. 12, when the selection committee for the NCAA Championship announces the teams in the competition.

In the meanwhile, Riley said that the Irish will be in full preparation mode as they aim to be as ready as possible for the NCAA Championship.

“Rest and recovery, these next couple of days. It’s just a good time to sharpen up all phases of the game,“ he said. ”When you’re playing two games every week, things can get a little bit sloppy no matter how much you emphasize it because competing is always different than training.

“We’ll sharpen up all facets of our game, get our legs back. The guys will get a chance to catch up and get ahead on some school work. We’ll be building towards our first NCAA game and just getting as ready as we can for that.”

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Notre Dame split its games this weekend at Purcell Pavilion with a loss to Florida State on Friday followed by a rebound win over Miami on Sunday.

The Irish (15-9, 9-5 ACC) couldn’t handle the Seminoles (15-8, 11-2 ACC) as they lost 3-1. Florida State was paced by junior outside hitter Payton Caffrey, its season leader in kills with 365.

Caffrey contributed 24 kills over the Irish. Notre Dame kept it close as the game was tied up at 16 before losing in the first set by two points, but then were outplayed in the second set losing 25-16.

The team managed to f lip the momentum in the third set, winning 25-23, before a heavily contested final set. The fourth set was so competitive it extended beyond the 25-point threshold. The Irish managed to build themselves a comfortable 17-12 lead but

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that would fall short of the Seminole comeback as Florida State ultimately escaped with the 29-27 win, bringing an end to Notre Dame’s threegame win streak.

The freshman combination of right side hitter Sydney Bent and outside hitter Charley Niego led Notre Dame with 20 and 15 kills, respectively. Meanwhile, junior outside hitter Jemma Yeadon contributed 13 kills against the Seminoles. The Irish defense was balanced as senior libero Ryann DeJarld had 18 digs, Niego had 14 and Bent had 12. Freshman setter Zoe Nunez also contributed 52 assists in the loss.

The Irish did respond, however, with a strong showing against Miami (13-8, 9-5 ACC). Notre Dame swept the Hurricanes behind to another standout performance from the freshmen. Bent led the team in kills again with see VOLLEYBALL PAGE 9

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Irish freshman forward Jack Lynn fights for the ball during Notre Dame’s 2-1 loss to Indiana on Sept. 11 at Alumni Stadium.

Notre Dame splits home series against Ohio State

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Coming off two rough losses at home to No. 1 Minnesota Duluth, No. 5 Notre Dame split its series with No. 7 Ohio State at the Compton Family Ice Arena over the weekend.

On Friday night, the Irish (43-1, 1-1-0 Big Ten) struggled offensively, falling to Ohio State 1-0. The Buckeyes got on the board in the first period, just under thirty seconds into their first power play chance, as Mason Jobst slotted one nearly halfway through the first.

Neither team managed to find the back of the net for the remainder of the period.

The Irish came out with some fire in the second period, outshooting the Buckeyes by two shots, but solid goaltending on both sides resulted in the score remaining 1-0 in favor of Ohio State. Notre Dame kept the shots coming in the third period, but found no success, and after pulling junior goaltender

No. 18 Notre Dame lost 1-0 at No. 15 Louisville on Sunday afternoon in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals. The Cardinals (94-3, 4-2-2 ACC) delivered a dagger in the 86th minute to extinguish the hopes of the Irish (10-6-2, 4-31 ACC) of winning the conference title.

The Irish got a chance to get on the scoresheet in the 23rd minute of the game after senior defender Felicien Dumas crossed the ball inside the 6-yard box.

Junior midfielder Jack Casey connected with the cross but his shot missed.

The teams returned to the sideline for the break as the 20th matchup between the teams remained scoreless. Despite the lack of goals however, the Irish continued their dominant defensive presence, having shutout opponents in the first half of 17 of

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Irish sophomore forward Colin Theisen skates down the ice during Notre Dame’s 1-0 loss to Ohio State on Friday.

Notre Dame finished its dual meet this Saturday against Pittsburgh and Virginia Tech, its last home meet of the calendar year. The two-day series of dual meets resulted in a sweep for the women’s team and a 1-1 finish on the men’s side. Notably, the meet contained several new pool records set at Rolfs Aquatic Center. The No. 13 women soundly defeated Virginia Tech 256-97 and Pitt 255-98.

The No. 18 men’s team won 232 to 121 over Pitt but came up short against the Hokies, losing narrowly 180-173.

The first day of competition saw 13 Irish first-place finishes and three sweeps, as well as several pool records.

Freshman Marton Barta broke the 400 IM record by nearly three seconds with a time of 3:49.75, while sophomore Zach Yeadon broke his own previous record and set the pool record with a time of 8:58.55 in the 1,000-yard freestyle swim. At the end of

day one, both the men’s and women’s teams held leads over their opponents, with only the Panther men within striking distance of Irish.

The second day brought more of the same success for the Irish as they earned nine first-place finishes.

The women’s team of junior Abbie Dolan, sophomore Carly Quast, senior Meaghan O’Donnell and sophomore Cailey Grunhard took first in the 200-yard medley relay, while sophomore Lindsay Stone placed first in the 500yard freestyle swim. Dolan went on to add to her list of accomplishments with a team-high four first-place finishes, winning the 200yard butterf ly, leading the Irish relay team to first place in the 400-yard free and recording a 1:46.83 in the 200yard freestyle, nearly setting another pool record. Yeadon continued his streak of dominance with another recordsetting performance in the see SWIMMING PAGE 9

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the way I put it — in the sense that his maturity has allowed that growth in everything that he’s done: his work ethic, the way he practices, I think that anybody that’s been around the game knows that the great players are great practice players,” Kelly said. “The way he practices now carries over to the way he plays. So, it’s great to see him have that kind of success, and it’s showing itself in his maturity and the way he practices.”

Claypool led the Irish (9-0) on Saturday with eight receptions, and more than doubled the next-nearest receiver’s total yards, as sophomore Michael Young picked up 60 on the day.

The junior wideout returned to the forefront of the receiving corps this week, taking advantage of the absence of senior tight end Alizé Mack, who is still in concussion protocol. Claypool’s size and athleticism allow him to act in a similar capacity to a tight end, at times.

“Alizé’s guy coming in is [sophomore tight end] Cole Kmet, and he’s huge. And then we’ve got [senior wide receiver] Miles [Boykin] on the other

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Football Playoff rankings, before finishing the year 0-2 on the road.

In 2015, it was a last-second loss to Stanford in Palo Alto that cost the Irish a chance at the playoff.

In 2014, Brian Kelly’s team finished the year 1-5 after a 6-0 start, including losing every game on the road that year — two of which came in November.

It’s been so consistently damaging in recent years that it’s almost become the norm.

For every season-opening Michigan win, there’s a seasonending Stanford loss. Every early high has its counterpart crushing low.

Enter 2018. All offseason, the Irish made it clear they were focused on one thing — finishing the season when it mattered. The pieces were there: experience on both sides of the ball, depth at key positions and a front-loaded home schedule that offered the opportunity for a strong start — but a schedule that also required winning four of the final five games away from Notre Dame Stadium.

While Ryan Field isn’t exactly the most imposing place to come and play — especially with the amount of Irish fans in the stadium Saturday — Northwestern and coach Pat Fitzgerald prefer for teams to take it as harmless as possible.

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side, and then we’ve got me, so I think we work around it for sure, but we’ve always got targets to hit,” Claypool said.

Claypool noted that one of the major tasks he has been working on this season has been picking up yardage after the catch and increasing the physicality of the play. That was on full display against Northwestern (5-4, 5-1 Big Ten), as Claypool averaged 16.3 yards per reception, regularly gaining yards once he had the ball in his hands.

“It’s been our emphasis as of late, YAC [yards-aftercatch],” Claypool said. “The first half of the season, we haven’t really been getting YAC, we’ve been more possession receivers, so we kind of emphasized throughout the week, yeah, tight turns up the field, so that’s kind of where that comes from, just practicing.

“I think it gives me an edge, if I can go attack the guy one play, and then slip by him and catch a ball the next. It makes it hard for the defender. So, whatever I can do to try and give me that advantage, I’ll try and do, for sure.”

Claypool said postgame he wasn’t necessarily expecting to have such a big night against the Wildcats, but he was hopeful he would be able

Ten. Just ask Michigan State, Wisconsin or even Michigan, who found itself down 17-0 before rallying and escaping in the final minutes.

When senior kicker Justin Yoon put the Irish up 24-7 with 13 minutes to go, however, it seemed like Notre Dame had handled the pesky Wildcats.

Until Northwestern answered with a touchdown drive of its own, and then blocked an Irish punt on the ensuing drive to set up another score. Just like that, it was a three point game, and Notre Dame fans were staring November blues in the face once again.

It’s not clear that Brian Kelly’s past teams would have been able to handle the mental check needed to go from a game being done and dusted to having to score to avoid an epic catastrophe.

It certainly wasn’t the case last year, when the Irish went up 20-17 over the Cardinal heading into the fourth quarter, only to surrender 21 unanswered points off of two straight turnovers.

But there’s something different this year.

Not only did Notre Dame answer with a touchdown drive of its own to push the lead back to two scores, it did so in a manner that ate up the clock and sealed the win. When the Irish were struggling to run the ball all game, suddenly Chip Long’s unit flipped a switch and started to dominate at the line of scrimmage. On third down with 2:45 left, the Irish executed a flawless read option and pulled the Wildcats’ defense to

to contribute in any way possible to the team.

“The game plan definitely set me up for that, I didn’t know it was going to be this many opportunities to make those plays, but going into the game you always want to feel like you’re going to play a big role in the game,” he said.

Junior quarterback Ian Book felt the connection with Claypool tonight, as evidenced by the pair’s combined stat lines, and felt confident going to him in tight situations — knowing he could trust the junior to do his job.

“Chase did awesome, and it was really good to see. I know how hard he works in practice, and he was due for a big night like tonight and he can make every play and every catch that he did out there, so it was awesome for Chase.

Such a good night like that,” Book said.

“He’s so big and so fast, so when you get him the ball — that’s my job, get him the ball as soon as I can — we know he’s going to make plays for us, and obviously tonight he showed that he can shed some tackles.”

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its knees, as Ian Book waltzed 23 yards into the end zone.

Over 10 plays and 4:14, Notre Dame put its foot down; and Northwestern could only stand and watch.

Two things were made very clear on Saturday night.

Not only is Notre Dame willing to be forced to deliver late in the game — and the season — it has the mental toughness to do it. Kelly’s team has enough seniors who have felt the crushing realization that defeats in November do to a program’s aspirations, and they’re tired of feeling that way.

Even postgame, the Irish made it very clear that the mentality hasn’t changed one bit.

Kelly and his players know that over the final stretch, teams are going to throw their best punch to knock Notre Dame off of its feet. Northwestern won’t be the last time the Irish are forced to deliver in the fourth quarter; No. 22 Syracuse in Yankee Stadium and arch-rival USC will certainly want to make a statement.

But for Kelly’s team, it’s one game, one quarter and one play at a time. Junior cornerback and defensive stalwart Julian Love called it “the process,” although this doesn’t feel much like a 76ers rebuild.

It feels like Notre Dame wants to play for a national championship.

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0 7

14 0

10 14

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Dexter Williams one-yard run (Justin Yoon kick)

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NOTRE DAME 7, northwestern 7

Clayton Thorson one-yard run (Charlie Kuhbander kick)

8:04

remaining Drive: 18 plays, 73 yards, 8:36 elapsed

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NOTRE DAME 14, northwestern 7

Miles Boykin 20-yard pass from Ian Book (Yoon kick)

7:28

remaining Drive: 11 plays, 80 yards, 3:51 elapsed

Notre dame 21, northwestern 7

Michael Young 47-yard pass from Book (Yoon kick)

2:33

remaining Drive: Six plays, 98 yards, 2:09 elapsed

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NOTRE DAME 24, northwestern 7 Yoon 43-yard field goal

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remaining Drive: Five plays, 29 yards, 2:09 elapsed

NOTRE DAME 24, Northwestern 14

Riley Lees 27-yard pass from Thorson (Kuhbander kick)

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remaining Drive: Six plays, 70 yards, 1:49 elapsed

NOTRE DAME 24, northwestern 21 Thorson one-yard run (Kuhbander kick)

7:05

remaining Drive: Five plays, 17 yards, 1:51 elapsed

NOTRE DAME 31, northwestern 21 Book 23-yard run (Yoon kick)

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remaining Drive: 10 plays, 89 yards, 4:20 elapsed

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Irish sophomore wide receiver Michael Young runs upfield during Notre Dame’s 31-21 win over Northwestern on Saturday night. Young finished the game with two receptions for 60 yards, including a 47-yard touchdown grab from junior quarterback Ian Book. Young also handled kickoff duty for the Irish, racking up 52 yards over three returns.

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Notre Dame managed a mere 162 yards and seven points in the first half at Ryan Field, but halftime adjustments had Ian Book and the offense start the second half with a quick 14 points.

Despite a Northwestern fourth-quarter comeback, the Irish produced with the pressure on, milking the clock and scoring with 2:45 left to put the game out of reach.

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Notre Dame’s defensive line readies for a Northwestern snap during Saturday night’s game in Evanston, Illinois. Clark Lea’s unit held the Wildcats to 249 total yards of offense and a mere 3.6 yards per play.

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Irish sophomore running back Jafar Armstrong muscles his way through defenders during Notre Dame’s 31-21 win on Saturday night.

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Irish junior quarterback Ian Book fakes a handoff during Notre Dame’s 31-21 win over Northwestern.

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Irish senior wide receiver Chris Finke points out pre-snap assignments during Notre Dame’s win.