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Students, employers meet at Career Fair Annual job discernment event hosts over 200 companies, organizations in Joyce Center Fieldhouse

By MARY STEURER Assistant Managing Editor

Students swarmed the Joyce Center Fieldhouse for career and internship networking opportunities Tuesday afternoon at Notre Dame’s annual Fall Career Fair.

This year’s fair offered students the opportunity to meet one-on-one with representatives from over 200 businesses and organizations from a wide array of disciplines. Traditionally, the fair was held in Notre Dame Stadium, but was relocated based on employer feedback, Ryan Willerton, associate vice

president for career and professional development, said in an email.

Willerton said the Meruelo Center for Career Development has been helping students prepare for the career fair since the start of the school year by hosting workshops and presentations on resume writing, improving interview skills and building literacy with LinkedIn and Handshake, among other opportunities.

“Our staff of 10 career counselors have been meeting with students individually to tailor their approaches to the career see CAREER PAGE 3

Jenkins talks ND happenings in faculty address

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Students meet with employers at the 2019 Fall Career Fair. The annual event is hosted by the Center for Career Development and provides students the chance to explore job and internship opportunities.

College plans alternative game day activities

By SARA SCHLECHT Associate News Editor

W hile many students spend some of their autumn Saturdays at Notre Dame football games, the Office of Student Involvement at Saint Mary’s has organized alternative activities for students who don’t wish to or cannot attend the games. The Purcell Game Day events will be held on

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University President Fr. John Jenkins delivered his annual address to faculty Tuesday evening in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

By CATE VON DOHLEN News Writer

University President Fr. John Jenkins spoke to the success of the University under provost Tom Burish, and the search for a new provost, as Burish will step down at the conclusion of this school year. Jenkins also discussed the Columbus murals, affordability and financial aid, the ND voice survey and fostering a ‘speak up’ culture, the 2019-2020 forum “Rebuild

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My Church” and the Vatican dialogues on climate change and campus sustainability initiatives in his annual faculty address Tuesday evening in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

Burish introduced Jenkins and brief ly spoke to his time at Notre Dame, thanking the faculty for welcoming him and for their support during his time as provost.

“As a result, serving as see JENKINS PAGE 4

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each home game day for the rest of this year’s football season.

“The Purcell Game Day events have evolved from the Fifth Quarter events,” Nicole Hundt, assistant director of residence life and student involvement, said in an email. She said she plans each of the events alongside a group of student event managers.

The Fifth Quarter events

also took place in previous years as activities for students to do following home football games, but Hundt said they will be held during the game each week this year.

“Since these are a game day alternative, it was decided that it would be best to host them during the game instead of after,” she said. see GAME DAY PAGE 4

Presentation analyzes role of women in Congress

By CHRISTOPHER PARKER News Writer

The 116th Congress has the most women of any U.S. Congress: less than 25% .

Record numbers of women were elected to Congress in 2018, yet the U.S. ranks 79th worldwide in female representation in a parliamentary body. These facts opened a presentation from Kathryn

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Pearson, the speaker hosted by the Constitutional Studies Department in Jenkins-Nanovic Halls on Tuesday.

Pearson, a professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, began with some stereotypes about congresswomen: they are seen as more cooperative but also more timid compared to their

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male counterparts, making them less inclined to take the lead in Congress but more likely to cross party lines in voting. Pearson’s research showed that women and men not only win Congressional races at about the same rate, but there is no difference in their success rates at the primary level. see CONGRESS PAGE 3

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Local filmmaker visits College art classes

By MARIA LEONTARAS Assistant Managing Editor

To give voice to the voiceless. To tell stories that have meaning. To prov ide a platform for the compelling tales of the people around us.

These are the reasons Chuck Fr y became a filmmaker.

Fr y v isited two Saint Mar y’s art classes Tuesday afternoon to share his ow n stor y and the process behind his work.

The Los Angeles native attended Bethel College and earned a degree in journalism. After working for various newspapers, Fr y said he realized that he no longer enjoyed what he was doing.

He then moved back home and discovered his current passion.

Fr y said he found he could take what he enjoyed about print journalism — w riting feature stories where his “words were causing [a]

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Women who run also have more experience than men and secure more money fundraising than men, according to Pearson’s statistics.

“For the most part, the results of elections through 2016 suggest that the women who do run for Congress are more experienced, strategic, more prepared and work harder to raise money to achieve gender-neutral results,” she said.

Pearson highlighted two key traits of Congress that might explain why: the need for women to prove themselves to a body made up of mostly men, and the advantages that come w ith being fiercely loyal in today’s government.

“W hen I think about gender dy namics inside of Congress, there’s two forces that are really important in explaining gender differences in legislative behav ior,” she said. “The first is the fact that ser v ing in a maledominated institution gives Congresswomen extra incentives to prove their credentials to their colleagues and constituents. Women introduce more bills than men. Women in Congress … give more speeches on the House f loor.”

Pearson said women in Congress are also more effective at bringing appropriations back to their districts in the form of federal spending.

“The second is the fact that the current Congress has been ver y polarized along partisan lines,” Pearson said. ”We’re seeing two

reaction” — and apply it to something else he loved: mov ies.

He sees v ideos as a way to v isually tell stories that can impact his v iewers like those feature stories he w rote did.

“After a big change in my life, I really felt my true calling. I don’t really know how to put this, but I just really like to tell, kind of sweet, like sensitive, like sentimental kind of stories,” Fr y said.

“I think there are stories ever y where. A lot of these stories really tell themselves. I think I’m just kind of a catalyst to kind of push these stories out.”

Fr y still finds inspiration through newspapers, as he did after mov ing back to South Bend. Fr y discovered a South Bend Tribune article about a man who repaired and sold bikes from his garage and wanted to tell that same stor y on a different platform. With help from the

parties that behave as competitive teams. [Part y leaders] not only use their power to control the agenda, but they also have the power to reward loyalt y.”

Pearson analyzed more than just voting record to determine that loyalt y. She tracked discharge petition signatures, a function of the House of Representatives that requires some representatives to cross part y lines in order to get a bill out of committee and onto the f loor.

She also looked at analyses of one-minute speeches in the House and at fundraising loyalt y. On the whole, she said, her results were conclusive.

“Congresswomen have extra incentives [to support their part y] and their strategic responses are shaped by significant gender dynamics … stereot y pes about Congresswomen and their behav ior, a legacy of bipartisan cooperation among Congresswomen, institutional and part y rules and differences in the t y pe of districts where women run and w in,” she said.

The numbers and trends presented on Tuesday focus on the political realities of a ver y turbulent time in American government, Pearson said. More analy tics on the nature of the U.S. government can help us understand it, according to Pearson.

“My research really speaks to a broader need of the understanding of the effects of Congressional polarization in the contemporar y era,“ she said.

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Grotto Net work and his crew, Fr y created a short v ideo telling the stor y of Charles “The Bike Man” Jenkins.

“This piece still gets me emotional. You know, like even watching it this morning before I came and talk to you guys, I still get moved by this man. And I don’t know why,” Fr y said. “This guy obsesses about helping people. And that is rad. I think I tell a lot of these stories like I said because I want to be like these people. And I can’t. I really, really, really fall short. But I think I can tell a stor y.”

After the v ideo circulated, members of the South Bend communit y reached out to Fr y to contact Jenkins, whether it be to raise money or donate bikes to him.

“I just think that that’s awesome, over a little, just something that I made honestly dow n in my basement,” he said.

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fair, and a number of campus departments have scheduled events in conjunction with the career fair to offer students opportunities to meet with alums and recruiters,” Willterton said in the email.

Michelle Feely, a master’s student pursuing an M.S. in engineering, science, technology and entrepreneurship, said she came to the career fair to speak with healthcare companies. Notre Dame’s fair offered a more diverse selection of companies than those she had attended in the past, she said.

“There was a whole row that was filled with healthcare, biotech pharmaceuticals — also life science consulting — so it was really nice,” she said.

Though some students land jobs or internships at the fair, many are there to acquaint themselves with job opportunities and to strengthen relationships with employers.

Sophomore Philip Hough said he was hunting for

Follow ing the Bike Man v ideo, Fr y said someone asked how he got the idea to tell Jenkins’ stor y v isually after reading it in the paper.

“I don’t know. That’s just the way I’ve always been, I can’t teach you guys to tell you guys how to do that,” he said. “I think you guys w ill probably like that or not, like, that’d be a great stor y. There’s got to be a stor y there. W hen you drive by somewhere weird, or you hear something, you know, and I just think really too, if it just kind of strikes an emotional chord, and those sick v isuals too. I can’t stress that enough, either.”

Fr y encourages new filmmakers to examine those around them to find compelling stories to be told and people to be inter v iewed for documentar y-st yle v ideos.

“W ho would you guys inter v iew? Is there kind of

summer opportunities. He appreciated how personable the representatives were, he said.

“There were a lot of people in there that were really great, especially a lot of alumni who seemed like they’re trying to help out,” Hough said. “ …

Some conversations lasted two minutes, some lasted 10 [to] 15. Most of them were actually longer conversations” While the fair saw a high number of companies represented, a disproportionate number were there to plug careers in consulting, senior computer science major Abigail Lane said.

“There’s not a ton of just pure tech,” she said. “So we definitely have room to grow there.”

Senior Emma Shimek, who is majoring in mechanical engineering, said that lack of representation makes it hard for students interested in pursuing careers in technology to network.

“I know there’s people who work for Google and Apple from our school, but they have to work hard outside of what our career center provides to get those opportunities,” she

that kitsch, kind of interesting stor y in your life or your family’s life? You’re like, dang, that would be such a good stor y,” he said. “Oh, my gosh, there’s someone at my church, my roommate, she can blah, blah, blah, you know what I mean? ” A self-proclaimed “sensitive dude,” Fr y said he leans into his emotions to create his content.

“I used to think that there was something w rong w ith me, but there’s not,” he said.

“I use that, and I really put that passion and sensitiv it y into the stories that I tell. I really invest in my subjects.”

Fr y said he could head to bigger cities for bigger work, but for now, he’s happy w ith South Bend.

“There are so many little sweet stories here,” he said.

“I’m quite content.”

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said.

Additionally, some of the lines for employers ran long, Shimek said. Waiting in line could at times take upwards of 40 minutes, she said.

“I talked to four different companies, and two of them were industry and two of them were consulting,” Shimek said.

“And that took me two and a half hours, because [there were] so many people.”

This year Notre Dame also piloted a new career search platform, Handshake.

Shimek said she finds the platform more useful than the University’s former platform, IrishCompass.

“I think it gives a little bit more access that might be room for us to get more like employers from different areas,” she said.

Students who weren’t able to make this year’s fair need not worry, Willerton said — more opportunities for career engagement abound.

“The Fall Career Fair is just one of the many pieces of the puzzle with the career development process,” he said.

Contact Mary Steurer at msteure1@nd.edu

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Students speak with representatives from over 200 companies at the Fall Career Fair on Tuesday.

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provost has been the greatest professional priv ilege of my life,” Burish said.

Jenkins praised Burish for his commitment to high-qualit y teaching and grow th in research and graduate studies in the last fifteen years. He noted several specific institutes developed during his time here, including the Harper Cancer Research Institute, Innovation Park at Notre Dame and the IDEA Center, along w ith other factors such as Notre Dame’s growing internationalization and strength of applicants to the Universit y.

Before speaking to the provost search, Jenkins expressed his gratitude for Burish.

“He has devoted himself to enabling the rest of us to f lourish, and for this I am — and I believe we all are — deeply grateful,” Jenkins said. “It has been a true blessing for me to work for the past fifteen years alongside someone who I believe has been, quite simply, the most effective provost in American higher education. If I were asked what days were most pivotal in my tenure as President of Notre Dame, I would have to include the day Tom Burish agreed to come and be our provost.”

Jenkins said Lisa Prigohzy-Milius of Presidio Executive Search w ill assist the search committee in their confidential search for the provost who w ill follow Burish.

Jenkins spoke to the criticism concerning the decision to cover the Columbus murals on the walls of the entrance to the Main Building.

Jenkins said he formed a committee of facult y, staff and students to create a set of recommendations for the murals.

“Critics of our decision have suggested that it arose from a desire to protect overly sensitive, coddled students and facult y from images that might disturb them; or from a desire to suppress historical facts; or from some embarrassment about the Catholic faith. In

fact, the opposite is true on all counts,” Jenkins said. “…

Our goal has been to convey the broader stor y in both its positive and negative aspects, and to do so from the perspective of our mission as a Catholic universit y.”

Jenkins also discussed the Universit y’s implementation of the Staff Retirement Incentive Program and the issues of cost and accessibilit y of higher A merican education.

“We used the opportunit y of these retirements to rev iew staffing levels and seek efficiencies,” Jenkins said.

The high costs are largely an effect of Notre Dame’s commitment to educational excellence but the Universit y cannot ignore families bearing the burden nor the concerns of Universit y benefactors, Jenkins said.

“We plan to direct all savings from reductions in staffing levels to helping students from lower-income and first-generation families make a Notre Dame education accessible,” Jenkins said.

Continuing his address, Jenkins spoke to Notre Dame in concern of the admissions briber y scandal involv ing respected institutions.

“We have conducted a thorough rev iew, and we have no ev idence of such behav ior at Notre Dame.

Nevertheless, the worst response to such cases would be to assure ourselves that it could never happen here,” he said.

Jenkins said Sept. 25 panel for the 2019 Notre Dame Forum “Rebuild My Church” — which focuses on addressing the Catholic Church clerg y sexual abuse scandal — w ill be moderated by Cru x Editor and Vatican beat reporter John A llen.

“Our forum this year w ill focus on where we are now in the process of healing and reform and what further steps are needed,” he said.

Jenkins finally addressed the topic of sustainabilit y and env ironmental efforts on campus, identif y ing the ways Notre Dame is mov ing away from coal toward other sources of energ y.

“The Universit y has burned coal since its founding to warm buildings and

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light the campus,” Jenkins said. “Next month, a year ahead of schedule, the last piece of coal w ill be burned as we transition to other sources of energ y.”

Universit y initiatives to reduce carbon diox ide emissions include geothermal projects, a hydroelectric project on the St. Joseph River, natural gas combustion turbines, solar energ y arrays, green roofs and LEED gold and silver certifications of buildings around campus, Jenkins said.

“Through these and other initiatives, we have achieved a 50% reduction in carbon emissions per square foot from 2005 levels — 10 years ahead of our original goal,” Jenkins said. ”We w ill continue these efforts as we seek to make the campus entirely carbon neutral.”

In closing, Jenkins praised the facult y for their dedication.

“I am conscious ever y day that the good that happens here daily is due to the many remarkably talented, dedicated people who make up this Universit y communit y,” Jenkins said.

“So let me end by thanking you again for all you do to make this Universit y the force for good it aspires to be.”

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Saint Mary’s has hosted activities as an alternative to attending football games for several years, as an alumna of the College wanted students to have opportunities for other sources of fun available during the football season. Since then, they have stayed a part of the College’s fall event programming.

“An alumna of Saint Mary’s College felt that there should be alternatives for students who do not want to attend games or for activities for students who don’t want to go to parties,” Hundt said.

This alumna made a donation to be used for these game day activities, she said.

The first Purcell Game Day event was held in the fieldhouse of the Angela Athletic

and Wellness Complex.

Those in attendance decorated flags and made nachos.

Students attended the first event for a variety of reasons, some attending to do crafts and others simply choosing to remain on campus that day.

Junior Ivol Frasier said the reason she attended the event was because she wanted to participate in a fun activity while staying on the Saint Mary’s campus.

“I came to this event to have something to do on game day that was not at Notre Dame,” Frasier said.

Hundt said the rest of this season’s events will feature activities such as a spa day, cupcake decorating and making tie blankets.

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By JIM MOSTER Scene Writer

Cupid struck me with his arrow at 2 a.m. on a Thursday.

He commenced his sneak-attack while I was playing my favorite weeknight game: How late can I stay up without falling asleep in my first class the next day? There are many variations of the game’s rules depending on who you ask, but my only requirement is that I spend the time on my phone.

Of course, like most engaging games, I played this one with other people. Aided by the University’s semi-reliable wifi connection, I recruited British actor Oliver Thorn to help me push the night’s boundaries. Thorn runs Philosophy Tube, a YouTube channel that aims to “give away a philosophy degree for free.” I capped off my binge session with his video “YouTube: Art or Reality?,” an exploration of ethics on YouTube and the honored subject of my fourth tweet in four years.

Unlike polished Instagram or cacophonous Twitter, YouTube brought me music. This is where Cupid comes in. Thorn delivers a captivating Socratic dialogue with several caricatured versions of himself, and he concludes the video with a cover of the song “Sleepwalker” by Hey Ocean! The song plays over footage of Thorn wrapping up in his studio, hopping on a train and collapsing into bed in his flat. The meta-type ending felt fitting for a YouTube video about YouTube.

At this point, I was riding the high of a fascinating

By CAROLINE LEZNY Scene Writer

“I sometimes worry I’d be less of a feminist if I had bigger tits,” Fleabag says in the midst of a silent Quaker meeting.

This scene provides the opening of the fourth episode of the show’s most recent season. As shocking as her comment is, Fleabag’s inappropriate outburst is perfectly characteristic of the lascivious humor and often-raised anxieties of this superbly crafted comedy series.

“Fleabag,” originally developed by playwright and actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a one-woman play for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, was adapted as a television series for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 2016.

Following the release of the series’ second and final season in April, London’s National Theatre brought the original play back to audiences for a one-night-only performance, filmed live to be broadcast to audiences internationally.

Thursday at 7 p.m., “Fleabag Live” was screened in the Browning Cinema at the Debartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC). But don’t worry if you missed it, the series is available to stream on Amazon Prime.

“Fleabag” follows the story of a 30-something woman navigating grief, self-hatred and a failing guinea pigthemed cafe in the midst of modern London. Through all of her trials and tribulations, Fleabag copes with sex — with

night of philosophy. (I’m a PLS major.) Thorn’s artful presentation of ideas and riveting performance always delight, but “Sleepwalker” made the video’s ending special.

Watching Thorn commute home should’ve been enough to end my game and put me to sleep. Instead, I felt ready to jump down from my loft and run two laps around St. Mary’s Lake.

I didn’t realize it at the time, but this was the beginning of my love affair with “Sleepwalker.” My music tastes are provincial. I like to hear 35-year-old vocalists in poppunk bands yell about how they refuse to grow up. So why was “Sleepwalker,” a soft indie-pop song, blasting through my headphones by 8:15 a.m. the next morning?

I figured that it’d be over in a day, no harm done.

“Sleepwalker” carried me through walks to classes, lunch at North Dining Hall and a trip to the gym. I busted out my bluetooth speaker to fully indulge in the song while I worked on homework. I soaked in every second of synth knowing that I would return to my beloved pop-punk by sunrise the next day.

The sun rose and “Sleepwalker” awoke beside me.

I was helpless. Perhaps indie-pop was my thing now?

I begrudgingly tested this hypothesis by listening to similar songs, but the same magic failed to materialize.

Meanwhile, blink-182 and WSTR had released new singles and I hadn’t even checked them out. I just couldn’t be torn away from “Sleepwalker.”

After several days, the dopamine bursts of my love-drug

began to decrease in potency. It felt like we had been together for an eternity — I didn’t know what life after “Sleepwalker” looked like. Rather than moderating myself to preserve the thrill, I decided to allow the pleasure of “Sleepwalker” to wear thin. Admittedly, I still listen to it at least once a day, but I’ve managed a full recovery from my previous levels of obsession. WSTR’s new single has graciously served as my pint of ice cream throughout the breakup process.

As I reassimilate and work out my apologies to poppunk, I wonder how I reached such a bewitched state of stupor. To quote my former beloved, “I’ve been using the word love but I don’t know what it means.” I suspect the blame lies with Oliver Thorn, not Cupid. My love affair sprung from his adroit aggregation of artistic elements into a compelling short film. “Sleepwalker” was only one element of this cookery, but unlike the others, it compressed the 30-minute spectacle into an accessible fourminute song.

My week with Hey Ocean! exceeded in value any experience I’ve had with pop-punk. With this in mind, artistic appreciation might just be the greatest form of love. Love affairs often disappoint with their ephemerality, but perhaps quality should be prized over consistency. Although passion dies out, remembrance of artistic beauty lasts a lifetime.

her boyfriend Harry, with the “Rodent Man” she met on the bus, with an exceptionally attractive Catholic priest and through her Barack Obama fantasies.

The show features a cast of characters that both make up Fleabag’s life and make it unbearable: a seemingly perfect sister (Sian Clifford); emotionally absent father (Bill Paterson); dead animal-obsessed best friend (Jenny Rainsford); hot priest (Andrew Scott) and “The Arsehole Guy,” a hookup and serial womanizer (Ben Aldridge). Olivia Coleman’s performance as the godmother is particularly perfect as a horrifically smiley, erotic artist living with Fleabag’s recently widowed father.

Yet, what is most unique about “Fleabag” is that throughout the series its titular character speaks directly to the camera, telling the audience her true feelings when she cannot express them to anyone around her. The device is unconventional — though often hilarious — and allows the audience a window into the significance of Fleabag’s story.

The thing that is perhaps most genius about this series, though, is the honesty with which it discusses the difficulties of modern femininity. In the closing episode of the first season, Fleabag says, “Either everyone feels like this a little bit, and they’re just not talking about it, or I’m completely fucking alone.” Waller-Bridge’s performance is masterful, taking the audience from gut-aching

laughter to solemn reflection in mere moments. The dirty humor and character-driven antics in “Fleabag” only add to the thought-provoking nature of the series, commiserating with modern women and allowing them a humorous outlet for their everyday anxieties.

Bitterly funny and unabashedly sexual, “Fleabag” is by its conclusion a surprisingly poignant portrait of a young woman struggling to find emotional intimacy and affirm her identity. This series is not only candidly funny but also a touching exploration of the difficulty of family, the complexity of love and the complications of modern feminism.

If you are looking to engage with these ideas and to laugh loudly and unadulteratedly at the supremely inappropriate, “Fleabag” is the show for you.

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On living with extroverts Sara Schlecht Associate News Editor

The clock shows 2:30 a.m., and my roommate Maria (the inside column queen) says “Goodnight, sweethearts” to the room. She then pauses just long enough for me to fall into a blissful almostbut-not-quite sleep. “Sara, call us a term of endearment.”

In my ex hausted state, I struggle to process her request. “Goodnight…” I trail off and take at least 30 seconds to think. “Roommates,” I say finally.

Maria’s response is immediate. “You monster! ” “Goodnight, monsters,” I reply, feeling more certain of this answer. (On an unrelated note, ever yone to whom I tell this stor y seems vaguely appa lled, and I can’t fathom why).

This is a fairly t y pical interaction bet ween any given roommate and me, as the three of them are among the most extroverted human beings I have ever encountered. They like affection, attention and terms of endearment.

I, on the other hand, have often been described as “cold” — and I take no offense to that.

They do a ll of their homework from the comfort of our futon while engaged in ongoing conversations. I am rather fond of the air-conditioned building full of books and study carrels, but my roommates do not share this appreciation. W hat I ca ll study ing, they instead call my “librar y excursions.”

W hen “The Bachelor in Paradise” is on, our room gets loud. As one recent episode began, my roommate Julianna begged for me to sit and watch w ith her. By the time the theme song started, I had to reach for my headphones. As it turns out, “The Bachelor in Paradise” is prett y funny when you hear Car Seat Headrest instead of the contestants’ voices.

I started w riting this column at my desk, but my third roommate, Emily, did not approve of me sitting so far away from the three of them. I am now wedged bet ween them on the futon, which is approx imately 18 inches from my desk. I explained that I need to leave soon, and Emily added “My Heart Will Go On” to the Spotif y queue. I am vaguely afraid to stand up and have them all start singing.

W hen I first v isited Saint Mar y’s, people kept ta lking about sisterhood. It sounded ridiculous to me back then. As I think about — and sit bet ween — these extroverts I call my roommates, I can’t help think ing about how w rong I was to be skeptica l of the sisterhood. It ex ists, and I can’t imagine my life w ithout it.

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It’s time to end the Presidential Debate system Patrick McKelvey With the Current

We may be over a year away from the 2020 Presidential Election, but the race for the Democratic nomination is in full swing. The field consists of 20 Democrats and, as of last Thursday, they have participated in three nationally televised debates. The intention of these programs, of course, is to allow the candidates to present themselves and their positions to the American people. Yet they fail entirely at doing so.

Candidates are given virtually no time to speak. Last Thursday’s debate had the highest amount of allotted time per question thus far, and even then it was only 75 seconds per direct question and 45 seconds per rebuttal. This is not enough time. It’s not enough time for someone to explain their position. It’s not enough time for someone to explain themselves. And it’s certainly not enough time to judge whether or not someone is qualified to be president.

Some of the candidates have expressed their frustration with the current system, too. Sen. Amy Klobucher of Minnesota, for example, has taken issue with the way in which most of the questions are posed. “A lot of questions have been 30-second responses to other people’s ideas,” she said. “I hope that these moderators will ask one of the other candidates, bring up one of my ideas and say, ‘Why isn’t this a good idea?’”

Sen. Klobucher brings up another great point. It’s exceedingly rare for a question to actually focus directly on an issue. Instead, moderators often frame their questions in the light of another candidate’s opinion. Answers then devolve into personal attacks rather than substantive discussion.

Even some of the field’s most successful candidates (thus far) agree. In his recent appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, Sen. Bernie Sanders stated that “You shouldn’t even call them a debate. What they are is a reality TV show in which you have to come up with a sound bite and all that stuff. And it’s demeaning, it’s demeaning to the candidates, and it’s demeaning to the American people. You can’t explain the complexity of healthcare in America in 45 seconds, nobody can. … And then what that encourages people to do is to come up with sound bites or do absurd things.”

Sen. Sanders is correct. There is absolutely no way — no way any candidate, regardless of intelligence or ability or experience — can successfully explain his or her stance on any issue in 45 seconds. It couldn’t be done in even five minutes. A topic as nuanced and as important as gun control deserves two hours of discussion from a single candidate. Background checks and the form they take, the sale of assault rif les at gun shows, whether or not firearm manufactures can be held liable in the event of shooting — these are all important sides of the issue that don’t receive a second of discussion in the current debate format.

And so, we need to change the format. Later in the same podcast, Sen. Sanders offered a sort of alternative. He noted that in the United Kingdom, candidates for political office are given a certain amount of time to speak on public television regarding the issues they believe to be most salient to their country. He said, “You remember the Labor Party? [They’ll say] ‘You’re a candidate. Here’s 30 minutes of time and you do with it as you want. You want to speak 30 minutes on healthcare, whatever it may be, you can do that.”

The Democratic National Committee should do something similar. Perhaps the debates should not be “debates” in the traditional sense at all.

Perhaps they should be discourses, and multiple rounds of them. Maybe there should be a “Healthcare Discourse.” Maybe it’s a “Healthcare and Foreign Policy Discourse.” And maybe there shouldn’t be questions at all. Instead, candidates should have 10 minutes to take the topic in any direction they want — to explain the issue, to explain their position, to explain their plan.

Maybe they should have 15 minutes. They should certainly have more than one.

This format would allow American voters to better know the candidates, to truly understand their stance on an important topic and how it affects our lives. It would also bring to light a candidate’s knowledge of an issue or expose their lack of knowledge. Ten minutes is a long time.

You can’t hide behind sound bites and snappy one-liners. Perhaps most importantly, it would remind the American people just how nuanced these issues are. They cannot be talked about, let alone solved, in 45 seconds. They’ll take time.

They’ll take effort from all of us. They’ll take the leadership of a president with a deep understanding of what the country needs, and a firm belief in his or her administration’s ability to care for these needs and to bring about a brighter future. Surely, if we expect a president to do this for four years, we can expect them to talk about something that matters for 10 minutes.

It would be a long program, sure. It’d probably feel tedious by the end. There would be less shouting, less name calling; there’d be fewer sound bites. But maybe we don’t need more exciting television. Maybe we need to know that this is serious, that the process of healing America’s wounds and building a better country isn’t funny — but it is important. Besides, after the last four years, we don’t need any more political sound bites. We should have enough to last a lifetime.

Patrick McKelvey splits his time between being a college senior and pretending to be a screenwriter. He majors in American studies and classics, and will be working in market research in New York after graduating. If you can’t find him at the movies, he can be reached for comment at pmckelve@nd.edu or @PatKelves17 on Twitter.

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Junior year: the unspoken thing Show Some Skin The Cost of Silence

No one ever really warns you about junior year.

No one talks about the anxiety that comes when you remember that you’re halfway through the door. The dread that flushes over you when others ask, “So, what are your plans after college?” with increasing sincerity. The insignificance of being the campus middle child, not young enough to be interesting, not old enough to be memorable. Junior year is not quite its own thing. … It is, in its own way, merely transitionary. Existing as an evolutionary piece between the beginning of this whole college-thing and the end. Made only unique by the loneliness of being abroad. Or the loneliness of staying on campus. And the reality that the sophomores who once raised you when you were new … are now, somehow, graduating seniors. Whether it be a disorientation or a reorientation, no one warns you.

The other week, I met a first year who needed help finding her way to South Dining Hall. I decided to walk with her. On our march down the quad, she opened up to me, sharing that she truly did not feel that she was part of the University yet (a common, yet often unspoken, reality for each of us here in our own time). She didn’t feel accepted, wanted or claimed. … She felt like she was asking to be embraced with every misguided step she took. We were ND, and she was not. Or at least that’s how it seemed to her.

I looked to her and I sensed the same dark feeling that haunted my own freshman year a couple years back, only this time I was suddenly in a position to counsel. I told her the ways in which it gets worse before it gets so much better, and I looked inwardly in surprise as I dispelled wisdom I never knew I’d picked up along the way. When did I become the experienced one? The advisor? How did that happen?

Two years ago, I used to walk around this campus just like her. Roadmap in hand and class schedule tattooed to the inside of my eyelids, I felt like I was enrolled as a tourist. A visitor in residence. I was on the inside, but wrapped in cellophane; nothing I touched or saw or knew at this school was actually mine for the taking. Perhaps for the borrowing.

Always for the returning. I used to joke that I wasn’t really a college student; I was merely a pioneer, studying what it meant to be one. And in my exploration of what this whole college experience could mean, I used the [then] upperclassmen above me as my muses, my models by which I could research what it must look like for someone to know what they are doing and where they fit in.

Now that I am a junior, I still don’t know what I’m doing, and I still don’t know where I fit in. My research? Inconsequential. My muses? Graduated and long gone. And yet, it seems as though this year’s first years see me and see nothing more than that same model for a “perfect” college student that I had only dreamed of becoming. Somehow, in all of my dreaming, I was becoming. I’ve transformed into the upperclassmen, the model, the muse. There seems to have

been a huge mistake. Who let this happen?

When that first year I met on the quad found out that I am a junior, she responded with, “Wow, so how does it feel to be on your way out?” You can imagine my surprise.

Juniors — what should I have told her? How does it feel?

We used to feel like we were on our way in. Now, they tell us that we are on our way out. So, where was that perfect middle? When were we supposed to feel like we were just … here? Where was the peak? How was the view? Did anyone catch it, or did we all blink?

No one ever really warns you about junior year. No one talks about the whiplash of trying to compromise between always looking ahead and always looking back. The two semesters somehow spent both dreaming and remembering. The transition from college chewing us up to spitting us out. Whether it be a disorientation or a reorientation, no one warns you.

Theresa Azemar is a junior and can be reached at tazemar@nd.edu Show Some Skin is a student-run initiative committed to giving voice to unspoken narratives about identity and difference. Using the art of storytelling as a catalyst for positive social change across campus, we seek to make Notre Dame a more open and welcoming place for all. If you are interested in breaking the silence and getting involved with Show Some Skin, email tazemar@nd.edu.

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Heteronormativity and Catholicism are inseparable My phone’s built-in news app proffered a piece

by Ellie Gardey, an undergraduate student at Notre Dame, that was posted today. Gardey reports on current efforts by some students to reduce heteronormativity at Notre Dame. In case you haven’t seen that particular tongue twister before, Gardey has done us the favor of giving the Oxford definition: “denoting or relating to a world view that promotes heterosexuality as the normal or preferred sexual orientation.”

Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I may be a bit out of touch these days. So I looked up the definition of “normal” just to check it hadn’t changed on me. The most general definition from Oxford is “conforming to a standard; usual, typical or expected.” Having taken a statistics class once, I figured I could reasonably interpret “usual,” “typical” and “expected” along probabilistic lines. I went and checked Gallup for the latest estimates for the number of LGTB people in the U.S. Gallup has been tracking this every year since 2012, and the most recent estimates have that figure hovering just under 5%.

Interestingly enough, Gardey interviewed a student for her piece who estimates that the number of heterosexual students at Notre Dame is roughly 20 times that of LGTB students. Spot on W. B. Gentry; full marks.

The point is that to promote heterosexuality as the “normal sexual orientation” is simply to promote taking reality as it is. In that respect, Notre Dame is on point. While I am not unsympathetic to these students’ views that the University is against LGTB lifestyles, there’s a pretty self-evident reason for this.

Notre Dame is a Catholic university and should absolutely remain so.

When I first arrived at my undergraduate institution 10 years ago, I was nearly militant in my belief that denying homosexual partnerships the same rights that accompany a civil marriage was an unconscionable violation of civil rights. But I never once

advocated for forcing a religious institution to carry out that marriage. Our fight was a civil rights issue, and the dividing line between what a marriage was to the government and what a marriage was to God, gods or the flying spaghetti monster was always clear.

The relative brevity of that fight — with a mere nine years between the first legal homosexual marriage and nationwide marriage equality — is a testament to how clear-cut the matter was.

However, to call for the end to heteronormativity at Notre Dame is the equivalent of choosing to enter the Great Books program and demanding that nothing before post-structuralism be on the seminar list. Not only would this erode the purpose of the program, such changes would destroy its very identity.

The benefit of being Catholic these days is that we are the stewards of an intellectual tradition that extends back thousands of years. And despite what your favorite pop scientist or sociologist might tell you, they weren’t all dummies before Einstein or Foucault.

When someone claims that this or that bit of Scripture should be interpreted a certain way, or that when Jesus said, “this” he in fact meant “that,” we can appeal to one of the richest bodies of work ever assembled by humanity to test that statement.

Thankfully, we don’t even have to dig too deeply to see why Notre Dame cannot be anything other than heteronormative: classical natural law theory.

As American philosopher Edward Feser explains, we have rigorous philosophical reasoning going back to Aquinas and Aristotle that clearly spells out what constitutes proper sexual behavior. Now, I’d be pretty willing to bet that a sizable majority of Catholics don’t live up to those standards. Nevertheless, they are the Church’s standards and the Church cannot change or abandon them without very good reasons.

You don’t have to agree with the Church on everything. This is, for now, still a free country and no one will put you away for not being sufficiently pious.

Despite the fact that my Church says I shouldn’t be a proponent of certain lifestyles, I remain a steadfast supporter of the idea that people should be able to love and live with whoever they want. That personal conviction and the ways my actions make it manifest is ultimately between me and my Creator. I hope he’ll go easy on me. But it’s certainly not the Church’s obligation to bend knee to my personal beliefs because the political ideology of the time happens to be going my way. Nor would I ever have the audacity to demand such a thing of it.

A Catholic institution cannot be anything other than heteronormative and anyone who chooses to be at one should be aware of that fact. We at Notre Dame owe each other a basic degree of respect and the welcoming, accepting attitude that we would expect from other civilized people. But no person, group or political ideology is owed Notre Dame’s apostasy. Some of us (including myself) came to this school specifically because of its Catholic identity, despite our having issues with and failing to live by any number of Catholic teachings. That identity is what makes this school unique in a world that is rapidly standardizing to the lowest common denominator of secular thought.

We are fortunate to be at the preeminent Catholic institution in the world. Do what I did and take a moment to learn about that tradition and how it sets us apart from other places of higher education in so many wonderful ways. For your sake, my sake and the sake of all the many talented people who have yet to come here, do not try to make it just another school, slavishly following ad hoc principles developed and set down by the “elite” institutions.

You may count it a quick win for modernity, but we all lose in the end if you succeed.

Matthew Logsdon MBA Candidate Sept. 16

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: You are heading toward a turning point. Refuse to let stubbornness stand between you and doing what’s right and best for everyone involved. Reach out, participate and be willing to compromise.

Your numbers are 5, 13, 17, 24, 29, 32, 46.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Keep an open mind, and it will be easier to share ideas and formulate plans that will accommodate you and those you deal with today. Working in conjunction with others will determine how much you will accomplish.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Follow your gut, and do what comes naturally.

What you have to offer can dominate the outcome of a situation that includes older or younger people in your life. Plan to spend less money and to put in more physical energy.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Spend more time taking care of your physical and emotional needs. Refuse to let anyone use you or take you for granted. Personal improvements can be made that will encourage greater confidence. Romance is in the stars.

CANCER ( June 21-July 22): Take better care of your emotional well-being.

Make a concerted effort to stay fit and to improve your surroundings to accommodate the activities and hobbies you enjoy doing most. Refuse to let anyone take advantage of you.

LEO ( July 23-Aug. 22): Consider what’s reusable before you discard one thing and replace it with another. How you use what you have will save you financially and help you avoid being taken advantage of by someone eager to spend your cash.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Spend wisely. You’ll have choices to make concerning lifestyle, personal finances and taking care of someone else’s affairs. Listen mindfully to the suggestions made by those close to you, and be willing to make concessions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A little charm will go a long way. Being complimentary will encourage others to do things your way. How you treat people will determine how much they do for you. Personal improvements can be made.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Experience is the best teacher. Dig in and help, and you will learn something new. A change someone makes will bring you closer together. Going somewhere you’ve never been will lead to a lifestyle change. Express your feelings openly.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): What others do will prompt you to make a change. Recognize who is a good influence, and walk away from anyone who is misleading. Personal improvements will lead to new opportunities.

Romance is encouraged and will enhance your life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The changes you make to your personal investments or health will make a difference to what you can accomplish moving forward. Make plans with someone you love, and it will bring you closer together and lead to positive lifestyle changes.

AQUARIUS ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Consider what’s available and the changes that are within reach. Use your intelligence to decipher what’s right for you. Don’t feel compelled to follow someone who is taking a chance on something you know little about. Do your own thing.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Look at the possibilities, but don’t lose sight of what’s doable. Set priorities, and you will have the best of both worlds.

You’ll get a taste of what you want and the incentive to save to live your dream.

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Start cheering for P.K. Subban social media oftentimes look beyond Subban’s consistency Sports Writer as an elite defenseman and instead point to his “excessive” celebrations. They minimize Growing up in the State of his fundraising for the Montreal Hockey, I remember making Children’s Hospital but demoncountless commutes to small towns scattered aimlessly across ize him for his “diva” persona on and off the ice. They stay silent Minnesota. Venturing outside about his provision of Nashville the Twin Cities alongside a busPredators tickets to underpriviload of suburban high school leged kids but scream about his kids, I always considered the pilgrimage to every corner of the arrogance. From a TSN analyst state to be one of the highlights of telling Subban to play hockey “the white way” to Capitals coach my season.

Adam Oates claiming he disreA particular night in Chisago spects the league, the tendency Lakes, a northern community notorious for their team of bruis- for the NHL community to use ers, immediately comes to mind. a double standard of scrutiny is appalling.

The entire town’s population Granted, it goes without saying filled the bleachers for the annual showdown against the priv- that the days of Jackie Robinson and Jack Johnson are over. ileged opponents from the Twin Cities; they clung to the outdated Certainly all levels of hockey invite any player without barriers bleachers, shivering in what resembled more of a frozen tin can to entry, and certainly the lack of diversity in the league depends, than an ice center. at least at some level, on the disClosing the Zamboni doors interest of blacks to participate with a definitive crash, the ice in the first place. Professional management crew waved in the football and basketball leagues hometown boys from the locker room. “Enter Sandman” swelled. simply attract a higher percentage of black Americans.

The fans met the earliest players Regardless of the progress in with cordial hoots and hollers. major sports leagues, systemA crucial piece of the Chisago atic forces of racism outside the Lakes community still felt painfully absent, however, as fans and league makes black NHL players like P. K. Subban in dire need players alike turned to face their of fan support. The American gate and awaited the local hero. socioeconomic divide between A wild uproar erupted as the whites and minorities means hometown captain, the only lower wages and less financblack varsity hockey player in ing for extracurriculars in black the conference, sprinted to the households. Full sets of hockey bench. equipment and rising participaFrom shift to shift, spectators tion fees make ice time an exfrom both teams supported him with a chorus of passion that any pensive investment. Without economic equality, most blacks fan section in the United Center are sidelined. would envy. The respect for his Perhaps the problem is retalent transcended opponent gional. In the Midwest, the hub of lines; the rivalry simply never American hockey, blacks occupy mattered, for everyone understood the rarity of what they saw. 10% of the population, a 3% from the national average.

Everyone recognized that no However, no statistic can jusmatter the outcome, they saw a tify the heart of the matter. No glimmer of hope in a local black fact or figure can dismiss the hero, dominating in a sport that criticism that black players like has felt unbearably white for far Subban face as they commit to a too long. sport whose demographic makes Now retired, I no longer see them feel out of place. No masthe electricity of that night in sive contract or Norris Trophy Chisago Lakes as I follow the win can make black players feel NHL, especially considering like they belong. Only the fans its demographic. I watch as 31 can do that. executive office staffs hire and Now more than ever, hockey promote white candidate after needs to change, not only from white candidate for head coach and general manager roles. Even the ground up but also from the in associate positions and behind outside in. Trailblazers like P. K. Subban only make real steps the bench, only a handful of extoward equality in major sports ceptions arose in the past three if all of us stop scrutinizing and seasons. The player population start cheering. fares no better, as black players Even you, Chisago Lakes. represent a small percent of the NHL body.

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with the environment and the crowds that they get. I think overall it was a step forward in our in our season, I thought we did some things better than we did against Clemson.

I still think we lacked a little sharpness in some parts of the game as well. But I think we’re still pushing to put our complete performance together, but I was really proud of the effort [and] the fight the team showed tonight against Indiana.”

Though Riley and his team were focused on this matchup, he admitted last December’s loss was still very present on their minds.

“You get here, it’s the first thought in my mind was with that game, and you’re disappointed because you didn’t get that one,” Riley said. “But I think I think it’s just a game that we know is going to test us every year. And whether we plan to play in the tournament or not, we’re always quite excited to compete against Indiana.”

Midway through the first half, the Hoosiers gave the Irish a scare off a corner kick when sophomore defender Jack Maher headed the ball to the far post. Senior goalkeeper Duncan Turnbull was unable to make the save, but fortunately for the Irish, graduate student forward Felicien Dumas cleared the ball near the goal line to keep the score even at 0-0.

Later in the half, Dumas streaked down the left sideline before senior forward John Rea picked up the ball and fed the ball to sophomore forward Mohamed Omar, who made it to the baseline

before sneaking a pass to fellow classmate and forward Ben Giacobello who tapped the ball into the net.

“When we connect a couple passes we ended up creating quite decent looks at goal, and I think there’s a great movement where we connected,” Riley said. “And then Omar had a great run into the box.

He showed a lot of composure to pick out Giacobello for his first collegiate goal, and it was a really good moment. We had a couple other moments like that in the first half where we lacked the quality in the final pass, but I think it was a welltaken goal and a great assist

by Mohamed Omar.”

The Hoosiers returned from break ready to even the score.

Five minutes into the second half, redshirt junior forward Ian Black took on the Notre Dame defense and threaded a shot between the back line.

Turnbull made the save, deflecting the ball out of bounds.

The attack continued from the Hoosiers, and they eventually found the back of the net in the 66th minute behind the leg of freshman forward Herbert Endeley.

With each team trying to find a break throughout the middle of the game, Riley credited the natural level of competition for the changes in momentum between both teams.

“Over 90 minutes when two good teams are playing against one another, there’s going be these kind of ebbs and flows,” he said. “And I think we’ve been defending pretty well, and Duncan has been playing well. [Endeley] kind of squeaked one by. I think we just needed to maintain our composure and then [try] to find our moments again.”

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In the final minutes of regulation, freshman forward Joshua Penn got a good look at goal, but Turnbull stepped up and kept the Irish hopes alive heading into overtime.

After the first overtime remained 1-1, the action continued into a second overtime period, with each team having chances to settle things once and for all. With just over six minutes remaining in the second overtime, from just outside the box graduate student forward Ian Aschieris landed a strong shot on goal from distance but Indiana redshirt senior Sean Caufield made a diving save to block the Notre Dame win.

“I thought Ian Aschieris had a really good look at goal,” Riley said. “… It was nice to see the guys really pushing to still win the game.”

Despite being greatly outnumbered in terms of shots, Riley isn’t too concerned about the state of his team’s offense, citing their emphasis on the defensive side of the ball as key to their strategy.

“I think it says a lot about stats, to be quite honest with you,” he said. “I think some … of their shots are generously called ‘shots.’ They go out for a throw-in there, they get blocked 20 yards, or they go 10 yards over the goal. We track shots on goal. I think we should have had more shots.

But I think overall, defensively, we know to win championships, you’re going to have to be good defensively in moments, and your keepers have got to be on form as well. And I think for the most part, we put in a solid defensive performance against a good attacking game.”

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the end, finishing with a score of 847. “[The competition] just didn’t faze our players,” he said.

“They’ve been in that situation quite a bit this past year and this summer. They know what it takes to win, and they didn’t let up their game. They just stuck to the game plan and played great down the stretch.”

Handrigan spoke of the play by all five Irish players: junior Davis Chatfield, senior Hunter Ostrom, freshman Palmer Jackson, senior Davis Lamb and sophomore Andrew O’Leary.

“It was a team effort and we wouldn’t have won without all five guys playing great golf at certain times,” he said.

He praised the performance of Ostrom in particular, over both recent tournaments.

“This is the second week in a row that [Ostrom] lost the individual championship by one shot,” Handrigan said. “And to have that quality of play two weeks in a row is great. He’s been playing some exceptional golf, and he’s already won one college event in his career. If he continues to play like he is right now, I can see him winning a game very soon.”

Jackson was also a notable performer this competition, as mentioned by Handrigan.

Losing by only two shots, Jackson finished the tournament in fourth.

“For a freshman to do that on a pretty elite field was a big boost for our program,” Handrigan said.

With a freshman and a senior both performing at the highest level, this Notre Dame team has shown considerable depth.

“Definitely the depth of our team is the best it has ever been,” Handrigan said.

Although only five players make it out to each tournament, Handrigan said he is proud about all nine of his athletes playing at such a high level so early in the season.

“The best part about those nine players is that they are pushing each other,” he said.

“They’re motivating each other to continue to play exceptional golf every week.”

Handrigan said the team has an eager attitude heading into the next tournament.

“We are looking to get another win,” he said. “These guys are hungry. Like I said earlier, they’re not content with just a couple wins. They want to win every single week and that’s the sign of a very strong team.”

Next week the team will travel to Toledo, Ohio, to compete in the Inverness Intercollegiate that Monday and Tuesday.

The field is expected to be the toughest of the season so far, and the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship was hosted at the course this summer.

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ask for anything more as a quarterback.”

Book reiterated his feelings of confidence and said he relies heavily on the rest of the quarterback unit and the ability to dedicate time outside of practice to his preparation.

“I feel really good, I feel

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really confident. I say it every week — got a lot to work on,” he said. “Once the game’s over I want to get back in the film room … and I know there’s going to be a lot of things I can work on. But I feel like I’m progressing in those areas, but still a ton of work to be done, and that starts in the film room and working on the chemistry with all the guys.”

While the new guys are

making big contributions early on, Book has been aided by the work of some of his veterans on the offensive side of the ball, notably senior receiver Chase Claypool, who caught 96 yards and a touchdown throughout three quarters of play against the Lobos.

“He’s been making those plays since we started working,” Book said. “… Huge confidence booster for me.”

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Irish freshman safety Kyle Hamilton runs downfield during Notre Dame’s 66-14 win over New Mexico at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday. This was Hamilton’s first touchdown.

Despite the confidence Book is experiencing, he acknowledged that the stakes in Athens will be much higher than they were against Louisville or New Mexico earlier in the season.

However, to him, matchups like this are what it’s all about.

“It’s going to be a bigger stage,” he said. “A lot of people — it’s going to be really loud. … A lot of guys in this team know what it’s like to travel to

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a pretty hostile environment.

You’ve really got to embrace and have fun with it. These are the reasons you come to Notre Dame. I think our team’s ready. We’ve got a lot of guys who have been there and been in those environments, know we have to go there and got to win.”

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Irish senior wide receiver Chase Claypool tries to break a tackle during Notre Dame’s home opening 66-14 victory over the New Mexico Lobos on Saturday.

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men’s golf

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Notre Dame battles to draw versus Indiana

Irish win Windon Memorial Classic

By CHARLOTTE EDMONDS

By INIGO YTURRALDE

Managing Editor

Sports Writer

In their first appearance at Bill Armstrong Stadium since losing 1-0 on their way to the College Cup, Notre Dame took on Indiana on Tuesday night in their first Top-20 matchup of the season. The Irish ultimately returned home with a 1-1 double-overtime draw, despite being out-shot 8-25 throughout the game.

Irish head coach Chad Riley said this matchup is always high quality and usually features some of the best teams in the country. He was generally pleased with his team’s performance in Bloomington, Indiana.

Irish sophomore defender Patrick Coleman dribbles with the ball during Notre Dame’s 4-2 loss to Clemson on Friday at Alumni Stadium.

“When we play them, it’s going to be a good game,” Riley said. “It’s always going to be a challenging game down here

The Notre Dame men’s golf team clinched their second win of the season at the Windon Memorial Classic, hosted

by Northwestern at Conway Farms Golf Course on Monday and Tuesday. Coming off of a successful competition at the Badger Invitational, this Irish squad becomes the second in program history to win backto-back tournaments with 10 or more teams.

Irish head coach John Handrigan was eager to share his thoughts on the tournament and the team who won it.

“Obviously it was a great week,” he said. “We performed extremely well. It was a tough field; it was a little bit stronger than last week. I think that in college golf, winning once is extremely difficult with so many teams that participate in a tournament, but to win a second time in one year and have it back-to-back is pretty impressive. I am very proud

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Irish sophomore Patrick Coleman dribbles the ball during Notre Dame’s 2-4 loss against Clemson at Alumni Field on Friday.

of the team and how they performed.”

Handrigan went on to discuss the team’s mentality going into the tournament.

“We talked a lot this week as a team about what we’re going to do after we win a tournament,” he said. “Obviously we won last week, so our talk was, ‘What’s next?’ They were very motivated and eager to do more than just be content and complacent on a win. So it’s nice that they held up to that challenge, especially when other teams were making a run.”

Handrigan emphasized the tough competition the team faced while at the tournament.

“Ole Miss has a really good team this year, and on the back nine today they were making a charge with a lot of birdies,” he said Tuesday. “The course we were playing was quite a bit more difficult today.”

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FOOTBALL

Book comments on underdog mindset, Georgia

By CHARLOTTE EDMONDS Managing Editor

Senior quarterback and captain Ian Book addressed the media Tuesday ahead of Notre Dame’s trip to Athens, Georgia, this weekend. Book, who recently threw a career-high five touchdowns in Notre Dame’s win over New Mexico this past Saturday, said that despite his team being a two-touchdown underdog he’s confident in their preparation and is looking forward to taking on the Bulldogs come Saturday at 8 p.m.

“I don’t think anyone’s too worried about what anyone’s saying outside of this building,” Book said. “Coach [Brian] Kelly just got done saying that at practice. It’s about what we do, it’s about our preparation, it’s about our process. Honestly, we don’t care at all what anyone says. If we’re double digits — we’re supposed to lose by double digits — it’s kind of a chip on our shoulder. We’re going to use it as motivation. I think it’s great, the pressure’s not on us.

We’ve got to do what we’ve got to do. We believe in ourselves — everyone in this building— this

is one family, we know what we can do, so we’re not worried.

We’re just confident.”

Irish senior quarterback Ian Book drops back and looks to pass during Notre Dame’s 66-14 win over New Mexico on Saturday’s home opener at Notre Dame Stadium.

Following last year’s loss to Clemson in the Cotton Bowl, there were many questions as to how the Irish were supposed to replace six NFL Draft selectees. However, Book isn’t fazed by the change in personnel. If Saturday’s win is any indication of how the new faces are transitioning into the lineup, they’re certainly finding their role in the program.

“Obviously, I’ve been working with those guys since January, once that Clemson game was over,” Book said. “Working on the chemistry with all of them, you’re going to see when things start working out, things really start clicking. It’s huge for me, nothing I have to worry about.

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Irish senior quarterback Ian Book looks downfield to pass the ball during Notre Dame’s 66-14 home opening victory over the New Mexico Lobos at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday.