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Taking a stand Defense records 8 sacks, 5 turnovers as No. 10 Notre Dame surges past No. 18 Virginia

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Irish senior defensive end Julian Okwara strip-sacks Cavalier senior quarterback Bryce Perkins during Notre Dame’s 35-20 victory over Virginia on Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium. Okwara led the defense with three sacks during the game, and this fumble was recovered by Irish senior defensive end Adetokunbo Ogundeji for a 23-yard touchdown.

Irish offense must relieve some of defense’s burden Hayden Adams Associate Sports Editor

Seventy-nine points. That’s how many the Notre Dame defense has given up this season. After giving up 14 points to Louisville in the first quarter of the season opener, the defense held them to three points in the remaining three quarters as the offense eventually found a rhythm. It also allowed only one touchdown in the first half against New Mexico and one more in garbage time.

Then, the defense took a leap forward, as the defensive line and linebacking corps improved leaps and bounds from where they were in those first two games and held a vaunted No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs rushing attack to only 154 yards rushing. They also recorded key stops on third downs, forcing the Bulldogs to kick field goals and keeping the game within see ADAMS PAGE 2

By AIDAN THOMAS Sports Writer

Junior running back Tony Jones Jr. may have been the headliner of the Notre Dame offensive attack on Saturday against No. 18 Virginia, but he did not deliver the biggest sprint of the game; that honor belongs to defensive lineman Myron Tagovailoa-Amosa, who picked up a fumble and returned it 48 yards, coming just seven yards shy of his first career touchdown.

To the 285-pound junior, he might have delivered the fastest run of the game as well.

“I figure I broke 21 miles per hour,” Tagovailoa-Amosa joked with media following the game.

Jones echoed those sentiments, saying he was impressed with that run.

“I always knew Myron was fast, but I didn’t know he was moving like that,” Jones said.

The big fumble return gave a struggling Notre Dame offense a short field to work with. Jones got the box score recognition for the Tagovailoa’s work, punching the ball in from two yards out one play later. The score gave the Irish a 21-17 lead, putting them in front for good. Seemingly

energized by the momentum change, the Irish put on a show for the rest of the second half, shutting down a red-hot Virginia offense and putting up two more touchdowns as they cruised to a 35-20 victory Saturday evening at Notre Dame Stadium.

Notre Dame certainly entered this game on upset alert, with the potential of an underrated opponent in Virginia and the emotional letdown of their loss to Georgia providing a dangerous combination. However, head coach Brian Kelly was not about to let them overlook their matchup with the Cavaliers.

“It was not an easy week, but we challenged our football team that this would be a defining game. We challenged them, and they accepted the challenge and responded,” he said. “They were exactly what I wanted them to be. They were determined, they were persistent, they didn’t panic.”

Notre Dame certainly faced some adversity Saturday.

Virginia came out with guns blazing, taking it to the Irish on a seven-play, 69-yard drive in just over four minutes. They faced just one third down on the drive, turning that play

into a touchdown as Virginia’s dual-threat quarterback Bryce Perkins connected with senior wide receiver Joe Reed. Perkins also hit Reed for a 43-yard gain during the drive that brought the Cavaliers into the red zone.

The Irish would respond, but their scoring drive came a little slower. They converted four third-downs on the drive, with Book passing for a pair of first downs, and Jones rushing for two first downs, capping off the drive with a six-yard touchdown run to knot the score at seven points apiece.

The Notre Dame defense showed life on the next drive, as Julian Okwara overpowered his man on a blitz, sacking Perkins and forcing and recovering a fumble. Two Virginia penalties helped the Irish breeze down the field before sophomore running back C’Bo Flemister rolled into the end zone from 11 yards out to push the Irish in front.

It was the last time the Irish would score in the half, as Virginia slowly chipped away at the lead. After a marathon 16play drive that chewed up 7:11 of game time, the Cavaliers settled see VICTORY PAGE 3

Jones, running game highlights Irish offense

By HAYDEN ADAMS Associate Sports Editor

Last season, Dexter Williams ran for 995 yards and 12 touchdowns in nine games, providing a valuable dimension to the Notre Dame offense that opened up the passing game for then-junior quarterback Ian Book. This season, the Irish are feeling the loss of Williams to the NFL, seeing the rushing yards per game average drop from 183 to 153, due in part to a 46-yard rushing night at No. 3 Georgia.

However, things may be looking up in that department, as the Irish rushed for 178 yards and four scores against No. 18 Virginia. The Cavaliers feature a defense that came into the game giving up only 2.2 yards per carry (though that stat was skewed by their nation-leading 20 sacks prior to the matchup).

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reach.

Most recently, they recorded 13 tackles for loss, equalling a total of 61 yards and held Virginia to only four net-rushing yards. To be fair though, those four net yards are due in large part to the defense also recording eight sacks for -55 yards. That’s right — eight sacks, including three fumble recoveries on four forced fumbles, one of which resulted in an Irish touchdown.

Against Virginia, the Irish offense recorded 343 yards, while the Cavaliers offense recorded 338. The difference in the game: not only the negative yards acquired from sacks and tackles for loss, but the 71 yards on fumble returns that put the Irish in terrific scoring position and swung the momentum of the game. One of those resulted in a touchdown for senior defensive end Ade Ogundeji and nearly resulted in another for junior defensive tackle Myron Tagovailoa-Amosa (brought down at the Virginia sevenyard line). Head coach Brian Kelly said it was imperative the Irish pressure Cavaliers senior quarterback Bryce Perkins to negate the team’s running

ability.

“Well, tactically there’s a lot of things that you can’t do. …

He limits you in a lot of areas.

So, we had to get a great pass rush and we had to contain him with our front four, we had to put our corners on an island quite a bit and force him to throw the football. Which he did, give him credit — first half, he was great,” Kelly said. “In the second half, we were able to get to him quickly and he had to get the ball out of his hand quickly, and that was really the difference in the game for us. They could not run the ball between the tackles when they wanted to run the football with a five-and-a-half-man box. If they could, that would have required us to do other things.”

Tagovailoa-Amosa discussed the feeling of seeing that game plan work against the Cavaliers.

“It’s such a blessing, just seeing our plan just going to fruition. Everything we’ve been repping all week, it just all came together,” he said. “[We] continue to [pressure] the QB so we can get sacks. Not only that, we can pressure the QB so he can make bad decisions, and that’s what happened with the turnover ratio and stuff like that.”

Right now, the Irish own a +9

turnover margin through four games, one of the best in the nation. Thanks to the defense making plays, the Irish have been able to separate against Louisville (three fumbles recovered) and Virginia in two games that were tightly contested in the first half, dominate New Mexico (three interceptions, one fumble recovery) and they had a chance to defeat the No. 3 team in the nation on the road (fumble recovery on a muffed punt in red zone). Senior defensive end Khalid Kareem said the defense doesn’t feel any pressure to make these kinds of plays to help spark the offense.

“I mean, we know that if we’re up, all we have to do as the defense is stop the offense from scoring,” Kareem said. “[The] offense, if they don’t score another point and we keep our opponent to zero, then we’re good. It’s a win.”

While the defense has been outstanding through four games, the offense has been underwhelming and, as such, too much is being asked of the defense. Just looking at the matchup with the Cavaliers, the Irish offense’s only score that didn’t come off of a turnover was on their opening drive. The next three were the result of fumbles with the last

coming from an interception by senior safety Alohi Gilman.

Other than those, the offense struggled to move the ball for extended periods, admittedly against a tough Virginia defense.

On their first drive against the Cavaliers, the Irish were 4-4 on 3rd downs, including a rushing touchdown by senior running back Tony Jones, Jr. After that, they went 2-11 to finish 6-15 on 3rd down. Still, it is a marked improvement over the 1-10 mark they posted on 3rd downs against New Mexico, and slightly better than their 4-11 mark against Georgia.

And yet, this is a team that had Georgia on the ropes in Athens. Regardless of how stingy a defense you’re facing, if you’re a team with national championship aspirations, the days of being able to win it all while relying on your defense are long past, as shown by Alabama’s rout of the Irish in the 2012 national championship and the recent 30-3 loss to Clemson in last season’s Cotton Bowl. Even senior running back Tony Jones, Jr. said the defense’s play, specifically Ogubdeji’s touchdown, gave the offense a spark.

“It was a big lift for [the defense] to score,” he said. “We were kinda down because we

had two punts in a row, and then they scored and it hyped us up, and we scored.”

Still, Kareem sees the relationship between the offense and defense as symbiotic, where one leans on the other.

“I mean, we have offense’s back and they have ours. So, when they’re back is against the wall, we’ll show up for them, so we’re not really concerned about that,” he said.

“We’re one team, so as long as one side of the ball is making plays, then we’re all good.”

That’s a nice sentiment, but in the long term, what’s been happening isn’t sustainable.

Getting three or four takeaways in a game shouldn’t be a necessity, it should be a luxury. This defense has been making the plays for the Irish this season, and the offense needs to pick up some of the slack. The Irish offense has to show up for the team to have a realistic chance at making a major bowl game and winning, or, if they’re lucky, getting back to the Playoff and challenging for another national championship.

Contact Hayden Adams at hadams3@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Irish senior running back Tony Jones Jr. runs toward the perimeter behind a blocker during Notre Dame’s 35-20 victory against Virginia at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday. Jones looks to fill the shoes left by prolific Irish rushers Josh Adams and Dexter Williams the past two years. Two of his touchdowns came as the result of a forced turnover by the Irish.

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Myron tagovailoa-amosa returns a fumble 48 yards to the 7-yard line

Notre Dame running back TONY JONES JR.

On a third-and-10 play, Irish senior defensive end Jamir Jones strip-sacked Cavalier senior quarterback Bryce Perkins. The ball came right to junior defensive tackle Myron TagovailoaAmosa, who returned it 48 yards before being brought down just shy of the end zone by Perkins. This was one of eight sacks and five turnovers forced by the Irish. “After that, coach [Brian Kelly] said I hit 21 miles an hour,” the 285-pound lineman joked.

Going into Saturday’s game, senior Tony Jones Jr. was leading a rushing game that had been limited to 46 total yards the previous week at Georgia. However, Jones and the Irish ran seemingly at will against the Cavaliers, with Jones tallying 131 yards and three touchdowns, both career highs. His first two scores both erased Irish defecits, and the second put his team ahead for good.

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Director details gameday trash removal Campus staff, outside companies coordinate to dispose of trash quickly, provide sustainable options

By ANDREW CAMERON Associate News Editor

When fans file out of the stadium after a Notre Dame home football game, the joy of victory — or sorrow of defeat — isn’t the only consequence of the weekend’s festivities.

The pep rallies, tailgates and the games themselves all generate huge amounts of trash, requiring an immense logistical effort to clean up and properly dispose of.

During the weekend of Notre Dame’s first home game this year against the University of

New Mexico, 49 tons of waste — 18 of which were sorted for recycling — were collected from campus, senior director of sustainability and logistics Carol Mullaney said in an email.

The cleanliness of the campus environment and the stadium are of great importance to the Notre Dame administration, she said.

“We want to ensure a safe and pleasant environment for everyone — our regular guests (students, faculty, staff and alumni) and all of those visiting us on game

SMC community participates in climate strike

By COLLEEN FISCHER News Writer

The Sisters of the Holy Cross, students at Saint Mary’s and community members opened their “For a Global Green Committee” event Friday by singing the lyrics, “We are striking for the world,” in the tune of popular church hymn, “Siyahamba,” or “We are marching.” The song demonstrated their intent to join together in the hope of educating and creating climate change policies.

The students and part of the staff involved were originally meant to complete a march through campus — joining marchers around the world during the week — but due to weather, it was canceled.

Students still walked across campus from Madeleva Hall to the Lily O’Grady Center with their hand-painted posters, made with recycled cardboard, while the storm ranged on. Although junior Annie McGuire’s poster was tucked under her rain poncho and wrapped in a plastic bag, she and other students still attended the event where the sisters

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and professors shared their knowledge of climate change.

The students attended the event for a multitude of reasons, but most said they wanted to help and protect the Earth for moral and religious reasons.

“I think the Earth takes care of us and it is our honor, duty and responsibility to take care of the earth as well,” McGuire said. “I think this issue is so pressing right now that we need to show the world what we believe in. Which right now is advocacy for our world.”

The obligation for stewardship was an idea shared by McGuire’s friend and junior Jackie Rojas. She held a sign reading, “Sciopero per il clima,” which means “climate strike or strike for the climate” in Italian.

“I came out here to strike for climate change because, we think that taking care the earth is extremely important,” Rojas said. “Just like we take care of each other as humans and we are creation, we are indebted to and in charge of taking care of the rest of the world that is also our brothers and sisters.

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weekends,” Mullaney said.

“There are several planning meetings throughout the year and ahead of each home game. A team of leaders from the different service areas involved with the stadium-related activities walks through the entire stadium three hours before each game and then throughout the game to ensure safety, cleanliness and that things are in the correct place.”

Senior director of building services Chris Hatfield said in an email that Notre Dame staff members do all planning

for waste disposal during home games, but due to the scope and volume of the work, outside help is needed.

“The cleaning crew is comprised of contractors [from] B&B Maintenance and Great Lakes Property Maintenance (GLPM),” he said. “B&B Maintenance will have approximately 50 staff in the stadium on game day providing custodial service. GLPM has dozens of staff removing waste from the stadium and parking lots on game day.”

All waste from the football games and other campus

events is transported to a collection yard on the northeast side of campus, Hatfield said, where it is removed by the University’s waste and recycling service provider, Waste Management. Waste is collected from the stadium concourse and surrounding area several times over the weekend — before and after the game — and the cleaning crews work to ensure all trash is removed quickly, he said.

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Students work to bring back popular coffee shop

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Saint Mary’s student band The Sister Chain performs at Dalloway’s opening night on Sept. 9, 1992. Dalloway’s was a coffee shop and hang out spot for SMC students until its closure several years ago.

By MAEVE FILBIN Saint Mary’s News Editor

In the summer of 1991, Peggy Abood (’92) penned the position paper that led to the founding of Clarissa Dalloway’s Coffeehouse. The clubhouse on Saint Mary’s campus served espressobased drinks — a new creation at the time — and provided an essential student gathering space. Since then, Dalloway’s

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changed management, moved locations and eventually closed its doors. Saint Mary’s Student Government Association, however, is taking steps to bring Clarissa Dalloway’s back to campus.

SGA distributed a Google Form to gauge student interest in the reinstallation of Dalloway’s Coffeehouse on Sept. 11. Since then, junior Giavanna Paradiso, community committee co-chair, said

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128 students have responded, with 99.2% saying they would consider attending events hosted at Dalloway’s.

Paradiso said SGA is moving forward with plans to bring the popular spot back to campus.

“We want to bring Dalloway’s back and we want to make it a student space,” Paradiso said.

SGA has been discussing Dalloway’s since last year, see DALLOWAY’S PAGE 4

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SIBC prepares students for business world

By SERENA ZACHARIAS News Writer

Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Notre Dame’s Student International Business Council (SIBC), has maintained their mission of “Peace through Commerce” over the years through a variety of professional experience projects available to undergraduates.

Founded in 1989, SIBC was endorsed by University President Emeritus Fr. Theodore Hesburgh and endowed by Frank Potenziani in an effort to create an organization with an emphasis on ethical leadership with a global perspective. Since its conception, SIBC has grown to become the University’s largest student-run organization, with over 1,700 students participating in a variety of projects last year.

Senior and SIBC president, Miles Wood, said SIBC primarily functions as a resource for students to get practical professional experience through partnerships

with alumni at a number of companies.

“At the end of the day we’re trying to get people exposed to different career paths and help them learn not only what those jobs are like but also how they might be successful in those fields,” Wood said.

W hile Wood came to Notre Dame without an idea for his future career, he credits SIBC in helping shape his focus in consulting.

“SIBC did a great job of demystif ying consulting for me and giving me an idea of what that career path would look like,” Wood said. “After spending the summer at Boston Consulting Group I was actually shocked to see how realistic the SIBC projects in consulting portray everyday work.”

Within the first few weeks of each semester, SIBC holds an all-council meeting to present students with the opportunities available to members for the upcoming semester. In order to accommodate for every major

and area of interest, SIBC provides projects in different divisions, including accounting, consulting, finance, marketing and STEM. SIBC also offers international projects which connects students to companies around the world.

Bruce Morris, senior and social impact co-director, first became involved in SIBC as a freshman working with Montana de Luz, a nonprofit in Honduras which works to provide orphans living with HIV/AIDS health, spiritual and educational resources to have a life into adulthood.

“The project I worked on was to help rebrand and recreate their fundraising strategy so switching over to a single monthly donation to a subscription style fundraising program,” Morris said. “It was really cool to see, because unlike other project where you work in the hypothetical realm, we actually got to see the new fundraising strategy on their website a week after we presented it to them.”

While social impact projects

like the one Morris worked on were previously housed in a social entrepreneurship division, SIBC recently dissolved that division and incorporated social impact projects within each of the other six existing divisions.

“We saw an issue where people weren’t really paying attention to the social entrepreneurship division because they were looking for the networking aspect of it all, which we do have, for example, we partner with McKinsey and Company consulting with the Montana de Luz project,” Morris said. “We thought if we put it in the main divisions we’d attract more attention, and so far it’s been working pretty well.”

Although SIBC may appear to be more directed toward Mendoza College of Business students, faculty advisor Monica Laidig said the organization is open to undergraduates of all majors.

“A lot of people worry about the word ‘business’ if they’re not in Mendoza, but try to look beyond that, they’re

definitely welcome and employers are always looking for students with critical thinking, leadership and creativity, and that’s not only happening in the business school,” Laidig said.

Morris also encouraged students across colleges to consider the opportunities SIBC provides.

“Especially with the social impact projects we really want to pull from a wide variety of majors and experiences, what makes a project successful is having people from different perspectives coming in and contributing to the project,” Morris said.

SIBC has already had their All-Council meeting to introduce students to different projects this year, but Laidig said if students are interested there still may be some projects they can join if they reach out to SIBC as soon as possible by going to their website.

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Center for Italian Studies brings Dante to ND

By MARIA PAUL RANGEL News Writer

Since 2012, “Dante Now!” has been an annual tradition for the Center for Italian Studies and faculty and students in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.

Every fall, the center organizes this event on a home football game weekend, inviting participants to delve into the world of the Medieval Italian poet. “Dante Now!” consists of performing cantos from the “Divine Comedy“ in Italian throughout campus, congregating at the Grotto to

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Sunday morning,” Hatfield said. “Waste from inside the stadium and any remaining concourse waste is usually removed from the stadium by the end of the day Monday.”

Mullaney said the Universit y has ramped up recycling and composting efforts in recent years, including offering trash bags of different colors to help distinguish recyclable and non-recyclable waste, and using student volunteers to distribute the bags to

chant the last one as a group and finalizing the day with a reception at South Dining Hall.

Both young and old — students and locals — all filled the auditorium. Before eventgoers embarked sporting their maroon Dante hats and gold laurel crowns, Italian professor Ted Cachey delivered a lecture titled “What’s Wrong With This Picture? How to Read Dante’s Hell,” at the Snite Museum of Art’s Annenberg Auditorium at 2:30 p.m., where he said the issues posed by Dante — love, betrayal, politics — still affect us today.

The tradition of performing these mini-pilgrimages honoring Dante was started over a decade ago and it has been a game day event since 2012.

Dante’s work is particularly fit for Catholic study, Kathleen Boyle, an Italian professor and event organizer said.

Dante “relates so much to the core teachings of this Catholic university,” she said. “… Dante is huge at Notre Dame. We have the Zahm Dante collection, which is one of the largest collections of works on Dante manuscripts in the United States, and we have a very strong Dante

program as well that draws in not only students from our department but from all over campus.”

Students in Italian courses are encouraged to participate in the event, sophomore Ellie Bradley said.

“I don’t know a lot about Dante because I’m just in Italian 1, but I’m excited to learn more today, especially because I’m planning to study abroad in Rome,” she said.

At the end of the day, the purpose behind bringing together people to jointly chant about Hell and its afflictions is to celebrate Italy’s culture

through the performance of Dante’s monumental work and to enhance students’ abilities, Alessia Blad, an Italian professor, said.

“What we are trying to do is teach the students that they can read ancient literature with today’s Italian because it hasn’t changed. We are trying to instill love for the Italian language, and show students that they don’t have to be scared of literature because it is still a very modern message,” she said.

tailgaters.

“Within the stadium, we are tr y ing to collect empt y water bottles only for recycling at football games,” she said. “The other item that is recyclable is the souvenir drink cup, but most people keep those as intended — as a souvenir — so ver y few are placed in waste containers.

Our concessionaire, Lev y, has introduced compostable containers this year for most food products. Compostable products are produced w ith less energ y and w ill break dow n more easily in the landfill, but they are designated for the landfill

containers. Currently, in our area of northern Indiana, there is no industrial composting facilit y.”

W hile Notre Dame does not currently have on-site waste sorting for events, Mullaney said, material is sorted off-campus. “[Waste marked as recyclable] is collected and placed in a separate recycling container and then picked up

by Waste Management who takes it to a sorting facilit y to determine whether it is clean enough for recycling,” she said. “If contaminated, it w ill go to a landfill.”

Mullaney said there are

global challenges w ith recycling, like contamination, that the staff has to deal w ith.

“The current challenges w ith recycling, which are global in nature, have greatly constricted the amount of material that is accepted by recyclers,” she said.

“Contamination is the biggest challenge that ever yone throughout the U.S. is facing, so we continue to work w ith many external organizations and talk to other universities to explore new ways to address the problem.”

Despite the challenges, Mullaney said the Universit y

is committed to prov iding a clean campus env ironment during game days.

“It’s important to know that there are many people, administrators in operational roles and in athletics, who place a high priorit y on the safe, effective collection of both trash and recycling throughout game weekends,” she said. “Much time and effort is spent on this. The working crews do a ver y efficient job in handling what is a ver y difficult job.”

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trees and everything that is living and connecting us to the world.”

The President of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Sister M. Veronique, identified the issue as a pro-life issue, and said it was one of the most pressing issues of the time.

“In the Catholic Church, we have right to life in many places here at Saint Mary’s College, we have our own right to life,” she said. “This is the right to life issue. So now is the time to rediscover our vocation as children of God as brothers and sisters and stewards of creation. And so again, our vocation, not just our lifestyle, vocation, but our vocation as human persons is to care for our creation.”

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Paradiso said, when president Olivia Allen and vice president Terra Nelson made bringing back the coffeehouse one of their goals while in office.

“It was one of the things that the [SGA] president and vice president had collectively decided they wanted to do this coming year,” Paradiso said.

“And then I also wanted to do it, so it kind of worked out perfectly that our agendas coincided.”

Since then, the community committee has been gathering information from the administration, current students and alumnae, trying to understand how Dalloway’s operated in the past in order to prepare for its future. Paradiso said it will take some time for the coffeehouse to return to its full capacity.

“If Dalloway’s were to come back, it would be in the form of like small steps,” she said.

“One of the things I want to do is post-game food … people are at Notre Dame all day, they go to the game, they’re standing in the stands and they get hungry.

It would be things like nachos, fries, simple stuff. Start simple and then say, ‘OK, so that went well. Now we can do Thursday open-mic night, and students can come seen and read their poems and do whatever.’ So it would be incremental.”

The new Dalloway’s would offer Saint Mary’s students an on-campus social scene, Paradiso said.

“I think that if you actually look around Saint Mary’s campus, there’s nowhere other than residence halls and the dining hall that are communal gathering spaces for students on our own campus,” Paradiso said.

“There’s nothing where you can just all go and the purpose of the space is for students to feel in communion with one another.”

Senior Haley Mitchell, SGA chief of staff, said student government will take significant

Associate professor of biology and environmental studies Cassie Majetic spoke on the current environmental and human consequences of climate change, including fires in Alaska, the Amazon and California, rising water temperatures and droughts in Australia and South Africa.

She noted the timeliness of the issue.

“This crisis is real. It is happening now. It is things that are going on around us, at this point and time,” Majetic said.

Sisters also shared their experiences with climate change.

The personal account of Sister Madalyn Murrary of the Thomas fire, which broke out on Dec. 4, 2017 about 25 miles from the sisters home was read aloud.

“By 1:30 a.m., the sisters at St. Catherine were evacuating their home along with hundreds of others as the wind

driven fires spread quickly over hills that were dried out by years of drought,” Murray said.

“As they left St. Catherine’s, they could see houses burning up on the hill behind them.

The sisters were fortunate that they were able to return to their home the next day. Not so fortunate were the 400-some families who lost their homes that night.”

Sister Mary Ellen Louise Fuller spoke on her experience with the 2018 flood in South Bend.

“We had water emerging from the concrete cement floor, fountains would just start to flow. So I mean, it would I guess it would be nice if it was outside. But in your house?”

Fuller said. “[When] Mayor Pete [Buttigieg] started out, he had to deal with two catastrophic events: an 1,000 year flood, which was preceded,

I think, maybe six months preceding this, and this was called a 500 year event. But no longer can this be taken for granted that it will be 500 years.

I mean, climate change is here, and something must be done.”

steps towards bringing Dalloway’s back once they receive more feedback from the student body.

“Once we get more feedback, we hope to have the facility to use for the students,” Mitchell said. “We are in the process of setting up meetings with our higher-ups to get the ball rolling on the whole process.”

When Abood originally wrote the position paper proposing the creation of an on-campus coffeehouse, she said some people questioned the reasoning behind her project.

“And I said, ‘Well because we need it, there’s got to be a place for kids to go on-campus for Saint Mary’s, so it’s not always so 100% Notre Dame focus,’” Abood said. “By the time I reached my senior year, I’d kind of run out of the charm of the dances and the dorm parties …

I was very happy to be at Saint Mary’s and proud of going to school there and I wanted for the social life to be a little more vibrant and focused on campus instead of feeling like we always had to leave in order to have fun.”

She said in her mind, the coffeehouse would provide Saint Mary’s students with a space specific to the College, separate from the Notre Dame social scene.

“Saint Mary’s is extremely fortunate to be situated where it is and to have the long and illustrious history that it has,” Abood said. “Its founding by the Sisters of the Holy Cross and its relationship with Notre Dame from the beginning have been pivotal for the vibrancy of Saint Mary’s. But having said that, they’re two radically different institutions with completely different conditions. Notre Dame is a large research university that has very different aims and Saint Mary’s is wholly focused on the liberal arts experience for its students.”

All three of Abood’s brothers graduated from Notre Dame, along with several uncles and cousins. Abood said she didn’t

create Dalloway’s to spite the University.

“I love Notre Dame,” she said.

“It’s not about Notre Dame.

That’s the whole thing, it’s that it’s about Saint Mary’s.”

Upon returning to campus in the fall, Abood said she went to Patrick White, an English professor and the associate dean of faculty at the time.

“And I barged into his office, and handed him the essay and said, ‘I want to do this,’” she said. “And he read it and said, ‘OK, how can I help? Let’s, let’s figure it out.’ He was really the person in the administration and the faculty who gave it legitimacy right from the beginning by saying, ‘OK, this is a good idea. Let’s talk about what needs to happen to make it possible.’”

Abood read “Mrs. Dalloway” in a freshman year English class with Professor White, and said the Virginia Woolf novel inspired the coffeehouse’s naming.

“It’s a life-changing book, anything by Virginia Woolf is a life changing experience,” Abood said. “I was enchanted by the idea of this character who at once seems frivolous about her party, but as you go deeper into the book you realize how complex her life really is, and the older I get the more complex I see it and you realize that your whole life can come to you in a single day and a party isn’t just a party, it can be everything. And so it ends up that the coffee house was my party and all these years later, for what it was and who it made me, it was everything.”

Much of the support for Dalloway’s came from the student body, Abood said, and stressed the importance of student initiatives.

“The great thing about it is that there were lots of other people who were feeling like I was feeling and embraced the idea,” she said. “We put signs up all over campus, and we had a meeting for people who wanted to be volunteers. Dozens of

people showed up. And so that was really gratifying.”

Abood said without the support of the student body, the coffehouse would not have been able to stay open.

“I mean, the whole reason why it was there to begin with was because of the students,” Abood said. “Once I got it going, the only reason it worked was because so many people were involved. And then all of the people who were volunteers brought their friends.

Then it just became this bigger and bigger thing of people taking ownership in it. This is our thing, this is ours.”

In the end, Clarissa Dalloway’s served as much more than just a coffeehouse, Abood said, creating a space for Saint Mary’s students to appreciate their time together on campus.

“You have your most full appreciation of Saint Mary’s … when you realize that the time that you’re having with these women in this place is the greatest gift,” Abood said.

“And that’s a huge part of why the coffeehouse was so important to me. It’s not just about a cappuccino.”

After Abood graduated in 1992, Dalloway’s moved from its original location near the Church of Our Lady of Loretto and Holy Cross Hall to where it currently stands on the Avenue.

Katie and Molly White (’07), twin daughters of Professor White, were deeply involved in the “second generation” of Clarissa Dalloway’s, or D-Way’s Katie White, now a Clare Boothe Luce assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Notre Dame, served as Dalloway’s Operations Manager, and said Dalloway’s hosted several events during the year, including a Christmas movie marathon, a dating game around Valentine’s Day and a haunted house on Halloween. It was an especially popular venue for live performances from the Saint Mary’s and Notre Dame music scene, she said.

“We would do one live band a month,” White said. “Usually, this was student bands from Notre Dame or Saint Mary’s … this was usually inside, but during the fall and late, late spring, like right before graduation, we would have an outdoor concert.

And we would basically set up all of our AV equipment outside. Occasionally we could get facilities to build one of those stand up things. And it was really fun.”

One of these bands was The Sister Chain, an acoustic, allfemale ensemble of six Saint Mary’s students, who performed regularly at Dalloway’s, including at the coffeehouse’s opening night.

D-Way’s served not only as a spot for a cup of coffee and good music, White said, but as an important space dedicated to Saint Mary’s students.

“One of the big things that was great about Dalloway’s was that it was a place in the evenings you could go to that’s purpose was not studying,” White said. “Its purpose wasn’t even really like food or eating.

It might have been coffee, but a lot of people just came to sit and hang out and be with Saint Mary’s women. And also it was a place that was really our own.”

Even with a full schedule of events slotted at Dalloway’s, White said her most lasting memories from the coffeehouse are the conversations she shared with friends while sitting in the worn leather armchairs.

“I really, really loved Dalloway’s,” White said. “It was a community of people who were looking for something different on campus who didn’t necessarily go to Notre Dame every night of the week, or go out to bars on Thursday and Friday. It was for people who wanted to have a quiet cup of coffee with their girlfriends and talk about whatever.”

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Saint Mary’s junior Jackie Rojas displays a hand-painted poster she carried at Friday’s climate march across the College’s campus.

Contact Colleen Fischer at cfischer01@saintmarys.edu

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By CAROLINE LEZNY Scene Writer

Art is undoubtedly one of the cultural cornerstones of society. From the realism of Ancient Greek sculpture to the abstract genius of Jackson Pollock, art has been used throughout history to express and shared emotion. However, there are some today who feel art is lofty, incomprehensible and, ultimately, out of their reach. An upcoming collaboration between the Snite Museum of Art and W VFI will try to dismiss this notion.

Senior art history major Rachel Mills has been involved with the Snite since “before [her] first day of classes” as a first-year. Now, Mills is part of the Snite’s Student Programming Committee, which reimagines the space of the museum to create events aimed toward getting students involved and engaged with art at the Snite. A problem Mills says the Snite sometimes faces is “making the space of an art museum more fun, and not this rigid space” where art is to be observed but not engaged with.

In a unique effort to overcome this misconception, she teamed up with student DJs from W VFI College Radio, and “Art on the Aux” was born.

“Art on the Aux,” inspired by the idea of a silent disco, will feature Spotify playlists curated by W VFI DJs paired with works of art within the Snite’s

By DESSI GOMEZ Scene Writer

While novels in the Young Adult genre contain many unrealistic elements, they possess a major strength in their ability to highlight diversity and mental health.

David Yoon, husband of Nicola Yoon — author of “Everything, Everything” and “The Sun Is Also A Star” — continues this trend with his debut novel, “Frankly in Love.”

Main character Frank Li lives in Orange County, Southern California. His parents immigrated to the United States from Korea. Though Frank identifies as Korean-American, he finds himself torn between Korean and American culture, a tear exacerbated by pressure from his strictly Korean parents and his desire to fit in with his friends and peers.

This struggle drives the second major plot point, Frank Li’s love life. When Frank and love interest / calculus classmate Brit Means start a budding relationship, he scrambles for a way to date Brit while not

second f loor gallery. Sections of the gallery will be indicated by QR codes, which visitors can scan to find and listen to the accompanying playlists while they browse the gallery. If attendees don’t have a Spotify account, the songs and the radio hosts’ reasoning for their choices will be posted as blurbs throughout the gallery. Mills says the goal of the event is to make the museum accessible to students without experience studying art. “[I hope] people can come in and be inspired not only by original works of art, but by other students, and see their own creativity,” she said.

“Art on the Aux” had its inception last fall during a temporary exhibit called “Solidary and Solitary,” featuring art by traditionally overlooked artists.

This year, “Art on the Aux” will take on the Snite’s permanent exhibit, allowing more creative freedom to the W VFI DJs and more opportunity for Notre Dame’s student body to get involved. In developing “Art on the Aux,” Mills led the W VFI DJs on a walkthrough of the gallery, hoping to spark inspiration by asking questions: “What if the exhibit titles were album titles? What would the vibe be? What if this piece was the album art?”

A part of the exhibit Mills is particularly excited to see realized is a group of paintings based on 19th century French politics, curated by W VFI station manager Michael Donovan. (Editor’s Note:

Donovan is the Scene Editor for The Observer). Mills described it as an unexpected choice, given the specialized nature of the subject, but said it ref lects the exact type of creativity that made her enthusiastic about putting on the event in the first place. She is optimistic Donovan’s playlist and others tackling less contemporary work will show that “even older art can be thought of in a fresh way.”

Beginning in October, students will have the opportunity to attend the Snite and get their Spotify on.

“The goal for all of our programming at the Snite is to get people to go to the galleries and have a meaningful interaction with an original work of art,” Mills said.

So keep your eyes peeled for the event’s opening and get ready to BYOH (bring your own headphones). You might find art is closer to home than you expect.

“Art on the Aux” will begin in October and continue for the remainder of the semester. Check out the Snite Museum of Art’s Spotify channel and visit https://sniteartmuseum.nd.edu/ for more information about the museum and its upcoming events. Visit https://wvfi.nd.edu/ for more on Notre Dame’s only student-run radio station.

disappointing his parents.

His solution involves a close family friend in a similar situation — Joy Song. Joy also keeps a clandestine relationship with Chinese boyfriend, Wu Tang, hidden from her parents. Frank and Joy decide to pretend they are dating for their parents, so they can see their respective significant others in secret.

If you think that’s complicated, you should pick up the book and see where it leads.

Yoon writes a good story founded on a solid variation of the classic YA plot. He moves it along at a good pace — almost too fast when you pause to think about certain significant details revealed at the end. His style advances the novel further with his refreshing blend of humor, metaphor and overall perspective.

Regarding metaphor, his incorporation of it and reference to it remind me of John Green in the best way.

Yoon creates memorable characters as well.

Reveling in Yoon’s character names, his lurid details about character appearances and his descriptions of their hobbies, I found myself immersed in the visual

world Yoon pieced together from the beginning of the book to the end.

Ultimately, Yoon’s novel is a compelling story built on a very personal part of his identity.

I suspend disbelief rather easily, especially when it comes to YA novels, so I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect for the ending. I think I was mostly satisfied with it, but it’s also open to the possibility of a sequel.

My Book of the Month subscription brought Yoon’s novel to my attention, and I’m very glad it did. It was a smart selection on their part as one of five choices for the month of September (it was released Sept. 10) as it deals with complex concepts that apply to pretty much any reader: romantic relationships, relationships with parents, making your way in society and being yourself (to name a few.) Though I’m a junior in college, I found this story with high-school aged characters still spoke to me very strongly and taught me some new lessons.

Contact Caroline Lezny at clezny@nd.edu

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Inside Column

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A VSCO girl Converging a common ground investigation Gina Twardosz News Writer

In my last Inside Column, I took it upon myself to uncover the great secrets behind those mysterious girls of the Internet known formally as “e-girls.” Naturally, all my friends and family were impressed by my dedication to uncovering the truth. Well, some were, anyway.

“What about VSCO girls?!” cried most of my friends. I was in disbelief. There’s another group of Internet teenagers I didn’t know about? I have really got to get a TikTok. As an investigative journalist, I took it upon myself to press my friends for more details. “You’ve seen that meme,” they said. “They have the little pants and the big top!” What kind of parallel universe have I entered? Is this some sort of Shania Twain, “man shirt, short skirt” secret society?

Like a hardboiled detective in a 1940s film noir, I pushed my friends to delve deeper into the complexities of the VSCO girl. Quite literally: Who is she?

“You know, they have the scrunchies and they say ‘and I oop’ a lot,” they said.

None of that sounded coherent to me, so I decided to leave my friends and do my own investigating. I was shocked to find that I was not the only one curious as to the identity of the VSCO girl — there seemed to be an article about them from every popular publication, from Seventeen to The Cut, Vox to the New York Times.

First and foremost, VSCO is a photo editing app, similar to Instagram, where the girls got their start and their name. The girls of VSCO define themselves via the persona they cultivate on VSCO, one of high fashion, popular branding and even ecoactivism. After scrolling through pages and pages of VSCO girls, it seemed to me like spiritually, VSCO girls are the older sisters to e-girls.

And, according to The Cut article “What Does It Mean to Be a VSCO Girl?” author Sarah Spellings says there is even a “VSCO-girl vernacular.”

Spellings writes that, “… a stereotypical VSCO girl can’t go more than five breaths without saying ‘and I oop’ — a reference to a video of the drag queen Jasmine Masters, used to express surprise — or ‘sksksksksk,’ which is meant to represent excitement.”

The VSCO girl identity is dependent upon a cultural elitism that is accessed through the consumption of brand-named goods. She is ecofriendly in the sense that she buys products that market themselves as eco-friendly, like Pura Vida bracelets or Hydro Flask water bottles (which they adorn with “Save the Turtles” stickers.)

Unlike those renowned Generation-Z activists, the VSCO girls are doing nothing to create tangible change in the world.

But, I’m not one to try and shame adolescent girls for just existing. Most of the articles about VSCO girls I read seemed critical of them and that’s not my intent. I welcome any avenue in which teenage girls feel safe in expressing their identities, whether that be TikTok, or VSCO or both.

But I wonder if all too often we conflate our identity with brand identity. I’m all for allowing teenagers to post as they please, but when each post looks more and more like a targeted ad, maybe we’ve gone too far.

Contact Gina at gtwardosz01@saintmarys.edu The views expressed in this Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

Nowadays, politics seem inescapable. Although the 2020 election remains over a year away, the Democratic primary is in full swing. Contentious issues like gun control, immigration reform and healthcare are constantly being discussed and debated. Our round-theclock focus on politics can be both frustrating and exhausting.

On campus, much like the hyper-polarized American public, discussions surrounding politics usually take place between like-minded people. Why debate issues with someone of a different view when they are never going to change their minds? It seems hopeless and pointless.

Student Government’s Department of Community and Engagement wants to help change that mindset.

To foster a stronger and more fulfilling dialogue between people of differing political views, we are excited to announce the second annual round of Converge conversations.

Converge matches people of differing political views for a conversation about how each person got their political beliefs, different misconceptions people have of their party and questions they have for the other side. Our goal is not to create more dead-end political debate between people of differing views but to foster

a healthy discourse between people of opposing views.

We hope people see that they have more in common ground than originally expected, creating a foundation for more purposeful discussion in the future.

We are proud to work with campus partners like NDVotes, BridgeND, College Republicans and Democrats, and Civic Duty South Bend to launch this initiative. Sign up at https://studentgovernment. nd.edu/what-were-doing/converge/. The Converge Kick-Off will take place tonight, Sept. 30, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Dahnke Ballroom.

Whether or not you sign up for a Converge conversation, we hope to see you there for a model Converge conversation between the presidents of College Democrats and Republicans.

We will never all agree on contentious issues.

However, through Converge, we can have a better understanding of why people believe what they believe and realize that we are not as different as we thought.

Alex Yom director of community engagement and outreach, student government senior Sept. 17

The Lord filled the tabernacle Brennan Buhr God, Notre Dame, Country

Sophia Sheehy recently submitted a column that gratuitously lambasts the significance not only of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, but also of human artistic achievement more generally.

I was disappointed that Sophia took this direction.

Toward the beginning, the article was well-researched and argumentatively sound in discussing the tragedy of forest fires in the Amazon, and I am sure all readers would agree that natural resource management is an extremely important subject that deserves close consideration in publications such as this one. Yet, in the final three paragraphs, Sophia establishes a false dichotomy between natural beauty and architectural grandeur, making a wildly universalistic claim that even “the smallest tree” is superior to the most excellent works of human art.

First and foremost, Sophia really ought to have read Mary Killeen McCans’s eloquent piece from this past April justifying the essential function of beauty in human life and the life of the world. In sum, we need artifacts like Notre Dame Cathedral to satiate our desire for the transcendent dimension of human life.

In truth, it is not in the least “self-idolatry” to mourn even the partial loss of monuments like Notre Dame Cathedral, for we Christians always recognize that our ability to create anything, especially to build a temple to house the Lord, is ultimately a gift from that very same sovereign Lord. Our activity is itself a selfless act of gratitude by which we thank God for not only breathing life into us, but for giving us the capacity to praise Him through our artistic talents, a capacity which He has bestowed upon the human race alone.

The sublime artistry which our talents can bring into being is order toward the glorification of God through the reception and enacting of His wondrous gifts.

As G.K. Chesterton once wrote in “The Everlasting Man,” “Art is the signature of man.” Birds, for example, do not have the capacity to create “seven styles of architecture for one style of nest”; only human beings can fashion such an elaborate system of design for their homes. Likewise, only human beings possess the “popular instinct called religion” that can turn such marvelous achievements into a means of worship.

Crucially, the sacred author of Exodus informs us that the Tabernacle’s construction has been completed

by stating that “Moses had finished the work” (40:33), immediately followed by the affirmation that “the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the Glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle” (40:34). It is no accident that the sacred author chose to employ this language moving from human activity to divine indwelling. God desires to live amongst us precisely within the particular sacred objects we construct for Him. In other words, we find evidence as early as biblical Israel’s sojourn in the Sinai desert that glorifying the Lord through “human creativity” is precisely the opposite of the “self-idolatry” which Sophia wants us to believe it is. The churches and cathedrals of the present age are no different. The Catholic Church affirms that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is quite literally present in the Eucharistic species inside the Tabernacle upon the altar or close to it. I tremble in awe whenever I reflect upon this reality every time I walk into the Basilica or the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Chapel inside Knott Hall. God is so radically other that He exists outside of space and time, yet he loves the human race so much that He humbled Himself, “stooping to our level in His love and Self-revealing to us,” as St. Athanasius of Alexandria wrote in his fourth-century work “On the Incarnation,” by taking the form of a person — the person of Christ. Likewise, St. Paul attests that this exalted God-man is so worthy of our praise and thanksgiving that “at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:10-11).

Indeed, one can and should be moved to wonder in God’s glory at the sight of a single small tree, not to mention a prodigious forest like the Amazon.

However, the Tabernacle — the place where God dwells — is even more wondrous. Recall this truth the next time you walk into your dorm chapel, and bend your knee toward God. Brennan Buhr is a senior Juggerknott from Albany, NY who studies theology, political science (but really, just theory) and history. He loves drinking cold glasses of skim milk and eating salad for dessert when he is not consuming “the living bread that came down from heaven” (Jn 6:51) at the Basilica. He can be reached at bbuhr@nd.edu or @BuhrBrennan on Twitter.

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

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

There’s queer blood on homophobic hands Your homophobic discourse soiled my air supply your ivor y tower theolog y slit my loved ones’ throats I’m tr y ing to go to class w ithout dead friends in my backpack just tr y ing to touch my girl’s shoulder in the grass you want to un-affirm me to “lobotomize me w ith a crowbar” well the murdered trans angels (18 this year yet)

leak brimstone into your pray ing mouths Young Americans for Freedom Child Oriented Policy Sycamore Trust Irish Rover your cowardly pontification is a cultural bullet at the gay massacre you burned us you beat us in alleys you watched us die of AIDS and yet I’m here, lay ing waste to your reproductive futurism I’m here in class

w ith my gender on my sleeve and centuries of dead queers in my old nav y backpack if you want me gone come to my dorm room, you are going to need and a backbone and better words you are going to need a much bigger crowbar.

Audrey Lindemann junior Sept. 19

Is capital punishment ‘pro-life?’

Vince Mallett Politcally Ambidextrous

This week is “​ Respect Life Week” at Notre Dame, ostensibly focusing on abortion and women’s health issues in the framework of an ethic of life. This week we’ll hear a lot about supporting women while protecting the life of the unborn, an enterprise which I think is both increasingly fraught and increasingly vital in our society. W hat we won’t hear about, though, is the variety of other life issues America faces; we won’t talk about immigration, assisted suicide or capital punishment. That last issue is one which perplexes me — opposition to what I think of as other ‘pro-life’ positions is nearly always grounded in arguments of good faith. As I’m sure some of our peers will remind us this week, women’s medical autonomy is a relatively recent development and a crucial one in the fight for equality. The balancing of that fight with the protection of the unborn in our pluralistic country is anything but straightforward.

I don’t see similar arguments against the death penalt y. Usually, one or more of three themes are brought up: deterrence, vengeance and justice.

Each of the associated arguments have clear fatal f laws.

Studies​ have show n that the death penalt y does not act as a strong deterrent against v iolent crime. The empirical ev idence makes intuitive sense. Any American citizen realizes that they face the threat of physical retaliation — either by the police or by the v ictim — if they commit a v iolent crime. No person intends to cause harm

to another w ithout recognizing they are putting themselves in danger. The threat of physical retaliation ​a fter​ imprisonment doesn’t only add nothing to this pre-ex isting disincentive; it actually incentiv izes the criminal to avoid imprisonment at all costs. Any murderer, know ing that they face the death penalt y if caught, w ill do any thing and hurt any person so as to escape that punishment. Is that the kind of mindset our system should incentiv ize?

The argument based on vengeance is both commonplace and disturbing. Many personal appeals are made in this theme: “If someone hurt your loved ones, wouldn’t you want to see the guy dead? ” (Statistically speaking, it’s usually a guy.) My answer to this, w ithout fail, is yes.

If someone hurt my friends or family, I would want to see him punished in ever y way possible.

That neither implies that he should be killed or that those desires w ithin me are healthy or productive. If we regularly murder human beings out of vengeance and spite, we are little better than the ones we punish.

Justice is the most complex argument for the death penalt y, but still one I don’t think holds much water in today’s world. It’s an argument based on an ideal all Americans claim to hold, and no one can satisf y ingly define, myself included. I’m not sure what justice is, or precisely how it can be implemented, but I definitely believe it is something beyond “an eye for an eye.”

That ancient and misguided principle underlies arguments for capital punishment based on justice, because those arguments presuppose that some form of reciprocal punishment is

obligator y in the wake of a moral transgression.

If that’s justice, it’s a notion of justice completely distinct from that of mercy, which I think is a necessar y aspect of the v irtue in question.

The question of mercy brings me back to the overall theme of this week on campus: respect for life. W hat does this mean in the context of capital punishment? Many would claim that support for the death penalt y is a pro-life position because the death penalt y promotes safet y and securit y. Does abortion not do the same? If protecting human life, from conception to natural death, entails a significant consideration of securit y and stabilit y, it would seem unconditional opposition to abortion is misguided. Limiting one’s children to the amount of children one desires certainly makes for a more stable societ y.

But pro-life people consistently reject that logic because it entails the destruction of a human life for the pursuit of a lesser goal. If you wouldn’t murder an adult for “stabilit y,” then you shouldn’t murder an unborn child. I think the analogous argument holds for capital punishment. W hat are we say ing when we sacrifice our prisoners in the pursuit of “securit y” ? W hat does this mean about whose lives we value? W hen can we truly call ourselves “pro-life? ” Vince Mallett is a junior at Notre Dame majoring in philosophy with a minor in constitutional studies. He is proud to hail from Carroll Hall and northern New Jersey. Vince can be reached at vmallett@nd.edu or @vince_mallett on Twitter.

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Don’t let challenges discourage you. Look for the best way to overcome any obstacle that stands in your way. Take the helm, and head in a direction that allows you to use your experience, intelligence and skills to turn your ideas and desires into a reality. Personal improvements, romance and positive lifestyle changes are within reach. Your numbers are 6, 10, 18, 24, 30, 38, 46.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Refuse to let anyone bring you down or ruin your day. Look at what you can accomplish, or make plans to be with someone who enjoys the same things you do. Love, romance and nurturing meaningful relationships should be your priorities.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Make an adjustment that will help you get along with someone who spends a lot of time with you. Be careful where you leave anything of value, and avoid getting into financial cahoots with people who tend to be excessive.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If someone isn’t being reasonable, distance yourself. Take better care of yourself, the ones you love and your emotional and financial future. Putting limits on spending or restrictions on indulgent behavior will work in your favor. Romance is encouraged.

CANCER ( June 21-July 22): Keep an open mind and a closed wallet. Don’t get stuck paying for someone else’s mistake. Use your ingenuity and offer suggestions, but don’t promise to do the work for someone who is lazy or taking advantage of you.

LEO ( July 23-Aug. 22): Do your due diligence before you venture down a path you know little about. Knowing what you are up against will help you prepare for any problem you may encounter along the way. Spending time with someone you love is favored.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A change will do wonders for your mindset.

Getting involved in something that brings you joy or helps you gain a better perspective on life and the direction you want to head is encouraged. Don’t let the past hold you back.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Deal with uncertainty. A change you make should help ease stress and ensure that you find common ground so that you as well as those you are dealing with get peace of mind and a chance to flourish.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Keep personal information private. Gather information that will help you gain perspective on situations that are being embellished. Someone from your past will cause you grief if you give him or her the benefit of the doubt.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ll make a good impression on someone who has an interest in you. Socializing doesn’t have to cost a lot of money or entail indulgent behavior. If you want to spend more time with someone, say so. Romance is highlighted.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Stick to what you know, not what someone tells you. Take better care of your emotional and physical well-being.

Strength and courage will be your best defense. Make a change if it will ease stress and bring peace of mind.

AQUARIUS ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Time is money, and doing things right the first time will pay off. Take an innovative approach to the way you handle your wealth, health and personal documentation. A commitment can be made. Romance is on the rise.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t be fooled by someone’s actions. Question anything that seems too good to be true. Only make changes that you know are doable. Get together with people who share your opinions. Take the initiative to make a difference.

Birthday Baby: You are gracious, articulate and helpful. You are flexible and opportunistic.

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NCAA needs transfer options Mia Berry Sports Writer

When it comes to the namecalling game, the NCAA is losing in a landslide fashion.

While the NCAA normally lets the criticism flow off like rain dripping off a raincoat, the cries became so loud the NCAA was forced to listen. The NCAA passed rules to look out for student-athletes, in the form of a transfer portal and a redshirt rule for college football. A year later, the NCAA is realizing it opened up Pandora’s box.

Enacted before the 2018 season, the redshirt rule allows athletes to participate in up to four games during a season and still maintain a year of eligibility. Ideally, the rule was put in place to help freshmen save a year and give coaches some flexibility regarding injuries. However, the NCAA never specified the redshirt rule is only for freshmen, and upperclassmen are also reaping the benefits.

Soon after the NCAA released a transfer portal, where student-athletes are allowed to announce their intent to transfer from their current school, which allows other schools to initiate contact with them.

The redshirt rule, combined with the transfer portal, has set the stage for some college football “free agency.”

Under the new rules, the quarterback battles last season at Clemson and Alabama saw Kelly Bryant and Jalen Hurts transfer to Missouri and Oklahoma, respectively. Bryant was a beneficiary of the redshirt rule, and Hurts benefitted from the transfer portal.

Four games into this season, another quarterback is looking to throw his hat into the redshirt and potential transfer market, Houston’s D’Eriq King.

By sitting out this season, King will have two seasons of eligibility remaining with either the Cougars or his transfer destination. Howard University quarterback Caylin Newton — the younger brother of Carolina Panthers signal caller Cam Newton — is following

suit and sat out in Howard’s close loss against BethuneCookman on Saturday.

Unlike Hurts or Bryant, King and Newton didn’t outright lose their starting jobs, but instead, they are two good quarterbacks looking to save a year of eligibility and possibly transfer to Power Five schools.

Free agency in college football isn’t the worst idea in the world.

Oklahoma is currently running a monopoly on elite transfer quarterbacks, with Heisman winners Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray, and now Heisman hopeful Jalen Hurts, all having transferred to play for the Sooners. Rumors have surfaced that King may also be on the Sooners’ radar for next season. Ohio State’s Justin Fields and LSU’s Joe Burrow have had success with their new teams. While great for some, it also doesn’t offer any guarantees (cough, Tate Martell to Miami or Shea Patterson to Michigan), but it gives players options they wouldn’t have had otherwise.

While some free agency exists, it isn’t complete. New transfer and eligibility rules give flexibility, but the system is limited and flawed in several ways.

Luke Ford and Brock Hoffman, who transferred to be close to ailing family members, were denied immediate eligibility. Furthermore, players who enter their names into the transfer portal could potentially lose their scholarships at the end of the semester, as a program is under no obligation to keep a player on the roster who explores transfer options.

The NCAA tried and partially failed in creating rules for student athletes. But paving the way to create some sense of free agency for studentathletes is a good start. The next step is offering players full agency.

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Martel-Lamothe headed toward the goal, but Tar Heels freshman goalkeeper Marz Josephson made the save.

The Irish had several opportunities early off of corner kicks but were unable to score. North Carolina broke the scoreless tie in the 27th minute. Redshirt senior Ru Mucherera took a shot that was saved by Irish senior goaltender Brooke Littman, but the ball rebounded right to senior forward Bridgette Andrzejewski, who tapped in the score.

By the end of the first half, the Irish had only registered a pair of shots, whereas the Tar Heels pounded the defense with 10. The second half proved to be more of the same, with Notre Dame only managing two more shots and North Carolina adding eight to their total.

Eleven minutes into the second half, North Carolina added another goal, with sophomore midfielder Brianna Pinto burying a back f lick in the far post.

The Tar Heels scored their third goal at 74:54 as junior defender Lotte Wuben-Moy converted a penalty kick for her second career goal.

As North Carolina’s women pressed forward, they

managed to accumulate a total of 12 corner kicks over the game, while Notre Dame team’s total amounted to five.

The only player to stay on the entire game for the Irish was Littman; the Rancho Palos Verdes, California, native managed to save six

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shots over the course of the game.

The team’s next opponent of the season is Syracuse, as the Irish look to stay undefeated against ACC opponents at home. The match against the Orange is scheduled to kick off at 7 p.m.

Friday at Alumni Stadium.

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Irish senior midfielder Alexis Martel-Lamothe evades a defender during Notre Dame’s 3-2 loss to Iowa on Sept. 15 at home.

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Irish graduate student defender Shannon Hendricks passes the ball during Notre Dame’s 3-2 loss against Iowa at Alumni Stadium on Sept. 15. Hendricks has played in all 10 games this season.

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despite several chances, No. 21 Notre Dame could not break through in their morning matinee match with the third-ranked Cavaliers, who avenged last year’s Sweet 16 loss to the Irish.

The Irish fell to 4-3-1, ending an extremely tough five-game stretch with a hard-fought 1-3-1 record.

Their offensive output has dried up during the minislump, but Saturday’s shutout was hardly a deserved result.

The Irish looked like the better team for much of the first half, creating most of the chances.

Just 90 seconds into the game, graduate student captain Ian Aschieris fed sophomore striker Jack Lynn down the right side, but Virginia keeper Colin Shutler got his palm on Lynn’s cross, keeping it away from danger. Virginia had a few small chances, as left wing Nathaniel Crofts threatened several times to break through; he was whistled offside once, and Irish keeper Duncan Turnbull beat him to a pass that split the Notre Dame defenders.

The grass was extremely wet after the game was postponed Friday due to extreme rainstorms, and the ball often skidded too fast for Virginia’s speedy forwards, eliminating

much of their deadly f lank attack.

On the few times that Virginia did manage to generate momentum along the wing, freshman Mohammad Abualnadi was there, twice breaking up potential scoring opportunities with superb sliding tackles. Head coach Chad Riley was complimentary of the freshman’s performance in such a high-profile game.

“We wanted to get some freshness in the wingback roles, and I thought Mo had a very good game,” he said.

In the last ten minutes of the half, Notre Dame had most of the chances, as Lynn’s effort was saved by a diving Shutler, sophomore forward Tyler Shea’s drive soared high, and freshman midfielder Michael Pellegrino saw his look trickle wide.

With under two minutes to go, Notre Dame came painfully close to breaking the deadlock: Abualnadi raced down the left side, delivering a strong cross to the opposite side of the 18-yard box. Pellegrino met the cross with a header back into the middle, where senior forward John Rea and Shea both got their foot on the ball but saw their chances blocked before reaching Shutler.

“We created a lot of good attacking moments. Virginia is obviously a solid team on both sides of the ball. Defensively,

they’re not going to give you a lot of moments. I thought we created some of the best chances they’ve had against them,” Riley said of his team’s attacking performance.

Notre Dame outshot Virginia 7-3 in the first half and had the only on-target shot, but the score remained tied heading into the second half.

The Irish picked up where they left off, earning two free kicks in the first five minutes.

Graduate student captain Felicien Dumas delivered two strong crosses, but one was punched away by Shutler, and the other was headed wide right.

The Cavaliers seemingly woke up after nearly conceding to start the second half, and for the next fifteen minutes, the Irish defended for their lives.

Meyer’s sliding tackle on Dike denied Virginia their first true quality scoring chance, and Virginia created more opportunities off an ensuing corner kick. Another potential breakaway was nullified by an offsides call, and Cavaliers junior forward Irakoze Donasiyano ripped a left-footed blast inches over the crossbar. Minutes later, Donasiyano saw another promising effort headed away by a Notre Dame defender. Finally, with under 27 minutes to play, Turnbull snatched a Cavaliers corner

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Irish sophomore defender Patrick Coleman passes the ball during Notre Dame’s 1-0 win against Denver on Sept. 8 at Alumni Stadium. Coleman has three shots this season.

kick, and Notre Dame finally had a chance to breathe and build their attack from the back.

A sprawling Shutler denied junior midfielder Aiden McFadden’s hooking blast, and Virginia cleared several other loose balls in the box.

The Cavaliers would break out on a counter-attack, leading to Meyer’s ill-fated challenge. The whistle was met with vehement protest from several Irish players, with fellow defenders Dumas and Philip Quinton outraged that their team’s stellar defensive effort was being nullified with such a controversial decision. Regardless, the call stood and Bell buried the kick for a 1-0 lead.

Virginia played the rest of the game to near perfection, possessing the ball at a high rate, and allowing the Irish few chances to equalize.

Riley, who had taken Lynn off the field, put him back in on the wing for the first time in 2019, hoping to energize their attack.

“I was trying to get some fresh legs and goal-scorers on at the same time,” Riley said.

Despite this, Notre Dame managed just a few minor chances. McFadden’s cross was cleared with ease in the 78th minute, and his longrange shot soared well above the crossbar with about seven minutes to go.

The rest of the game was a

slog, as Virginia continuously gave the ball to Dike, and the 6-foot-2, 220-pound forward would dribble into the corner and watch the clock trickle down. Notre Dame never seriously challenged for a goal again, and the Cavaliers escaped South Bend with a 1-0 victory.

It was hardly an underwhelming performance for the Irish, who played the No. 3 team in the nation virtually even for the majority of the game, even creating a plethora of solid chances against arguably the best defense in the country. It was a tough loss that gives the Irish three losses to Top-15 teams in the past couple of weeks, but they’ll look to carry the energy they played with Saturday into next week’s matchups with DePaul and NC State.

Riley was optimistic about his team’s performance and their future after the Virginia game.

“I’m very proud of this group,” he said. “I think we played well, and there’s no shame in losing to a good team. I think we had a lot of chances and could have gotten a better outcome. Overall, they have to let it add fuel to the fire.”

The Irish are back home Tuesday against DePaul, scheduled to start at 7 p.m.

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Irish junior midfielder Aiden McFadden controls the ball during Notre Dame’s 1-0 home victory over Denver on Sept. 8. McFadden has scored two goals this year for the Irish.

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much more out of the leadership end of things, especially with the Mike linebacker and [junior] Drew [W hite] taking that over. I think we’re seeing better communication, continuity with the group and just really guys just playing into what’s asked of them each and every week.”

On the other side of the ball, Kelly addressed some of the shortcomings of the offense, a unit that appeared

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to struggle, especially in the first half.

“It’s a little bit of everything. It’s a little bit of playing a really good defense — give Virginia some credit — [and] a little bit of coaching,” Kelly said. “We’ve got to put ourselves in a better position, and then a little bit of trusting what you see and you’re teaching. I think a lot of that just has to do with developing [and having] 11 guys come together each and every week. We’re four weeks into it. Obviously, we’re getting better, but we’re not

there yet.”

Kelly said endurance will be key for the offense in the coming weeks. “[The offense is] a unit that’s evolving,” Kelly said.

“There are some good things that we saw out there. We’re playing really physical, and that’s a good place to start.

But the execution has got to be at a higher level. That’s really what we’ll focus on this week: how we execute better for four quarters. Not just starting fast and finishing strong, but through the middle part of the game. We’ve

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Irish senior quarterback Ian Book scans the defense before the snap during Notre Dame’s 35-20 win over Virginia on Saturday. “He’s a quarterback that needs to trust what he sees,” head coach Brian Kelly said.

got to keep that up, and that’s coaching it and then making sure that our players are executing it as well.”

Kelly went on, however, to express his confidence in senior quarterback Ian Book and say that Book ought to trust his ability at the position.

“He’s evolving. I love Ian. He’s a quarterback that needs to trust what he sees and be committed to it. I think if I were to use a word to describe him, he probably just needs to be more decisive,” Kelly said. “We’re just going to work on him being more decisive. There’s some plays out there that he knows he sees after the fact. We’re just going to work on that decisiveness, and once he gets to that level, we’re going to be in pretty good shape.”

However, the Irish did see an improvement in the rushing attack, which Kelly attributed to a number of moving pieces that showed improvement Saturday. “[The offensive line is] huge, obviously. The tight ends, too. They blocked very well. … We had four big-play runs. In terms of running the football, we had a 30-yard run, 36-yard run, 15-yard run. Those are big,” he said.

“Anytime you control the clock late in the game, you have be able to get off the football. They did a really nice job. It was wide receivers blocking, it was the physicality of the backs. Getting sophomore running back C’Bo Flemister in the game, getting [sophomore] Jahmir Smith in the game — I think that really helped Tony Jones Jr. in the sense that he was fresh late in the game, and we were able to push some piles because of that.”

The Irish are one of eight teams with a perfect scoring record in the end zone, and Kelly attributed that impressive feat at this point in the

season to a combination of many offensive weapons.

“It’s a focused area down there. You spend a lot of time during the week. We’ve got big tight ends that we can use, rang y wide receivers and certainly a big, powerful back. Those bode well down in that area,” Kelly said. “I think all of those, when you put those together, are good weapons to have in that area. We’re not a small team in that area. We can utilize those weapons effectively in that area of the field.”

Kelly stressed the importance of varying their offensive schemes.

“I think we’ve been very creative down there. I think we keep people off of tendencies. I think offensive coordinator Chip [Long] does a great job of mixing things up,” he said. “I think it’s a little bit of all of those things.

I think we’re built really good for the blue zone and the white zone down there.

We’ve been really effective.”

Finally, Kelly updated the media on the injuries sustained throughout the game, which included senior defensive lineman Daelin Hayes and graduate student cornerback Shaun Crawford.

“Daelin Hayes has a labrum tear, so he’ll be out for the season. He’ll have surgery,” Kelly said. “Shaun Crawford has a dislocated elbow. He’ll be out approximately three to four weeks. [Senior wide receiver Chase] Claypool has a right ankle [injury]. It’s not the ankle that he had surgery on. It’s not a high ankle sprain, so it should not affect him this week in practice.

Nobody else jumps off the list here, from the game.”

The Irish will be at home next Saturday once again, this time to take on Bowling Green at 3:30 p.m. on NBC.

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Wolfpack fought desperately to stay in the game, as they broke away from a back-andforth set to take a 19-16 lead and force a Notre Dame timeout. However, the Irish were able to regroup and went on a 6-0 run to take a 22-19 lead.

The Wolfpack were worn down by that point and recorded three straight attack errors to give the Irish a 2520 win yet again and their second consecutive win with a sweep.

Bent, Nunez, and Cruzado once again led the team with 13 kills, 29 assists and 12 digs, respectively.

Sophomore middle blocker Lauren Wenzel led the Irish with 6 blocks as well.

The Irish will return to action Friday against Clemson in the third of four straight home games. The match is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. at Purcell Pavilion.

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Irish sophomore outside hitter Charley Niego leaps to spike the ball during Notre Dame’s 3-0 win over Valparaiso on Sept. 4 at Purcell Pavilion. Niego led the Irish with 13 kills Friday against North Carolina.

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set was a defensive battle.

The Wolfpack recorded a .075 hit percentage while the Irish hit for .091 hit percentage. The teams traded the lead before a 5-1 Irish run put them up 23-19, with Bent providing two kills to close the set out 25-23 for the Irish to take a 1-0 lead.

After the teams achieved a 6-6 tie in the second period, the Irish would go on a 6-1 run to go up 12-7. They never relinquished the lead for the remainder of the stanza, taking a 2-0 lead with a 25-20 score. The offense and defense began to assert themselves in the period as well, improving their hit percentage to .152 and holding the Wolfpack to .059 hitting.

In the third stanza, the

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Kelly updates on offense, injuries

By CONNOR MULVENA Sports Editor

After No. 9 Notre Dame’s 35-20 victory over No. 23 Virginia on Saturday, Irish head coach Brian Kelly addressed the media Sunday in his weekly post-game teleconference. Kelly talked about the defense’s play, injury updates and Ian Book, among other subjects.

W hen asked about the improvement of the defense against the run, especially in light of Notre Dame’s (31) week one performance against Louisville, Kelly referenced the unit’s increased comfort level in particular.

“The maturity of the group — we’ve got some new players playing in positions at the linebacker position — [junior linebacker] Jeremiah [Owusu-Koramoah] — being much more efficient at what he’s doing on a play-to-play basis,” Kelly said. “You’re really talking about three guys

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in particular that are settling in in that front seven.

That’s a big piece of it. In the Louisville game, the numbers were a lot larger based upon some option things, but I think they’re starting to settle down with a sense that everybody’s starting to know their jobs.”

Now entering the middle of the season, the defense is entering into a rhythm, Kelly said.

“There’s a comfort level there that we’re doing a much better job with communication,” Kelly said. “Guys know where to be [when they are] part of the defense. I think [defensive coordinator] Clark [Lea] would tell you that Tuesdays and Wednesdays are not quite as hectic as they were maybe the first month of camp and then into the first couple of weeks. Anytime you get that continuity with the group, they’re starting to get see KELLY PAGE 11

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Irish senior midfielder Jack Casey looks to pass during Notre Dame’s 1-0 victory over Denver on Sept. 8 at Alumni Stadium.

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Notre Dame drops game against North Carolina

ND sweeps pair of ACC home games

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This Sunday, the Notre Dame women’s soccer team traveled to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to play against No. 4 University of North Carolina.

The Irish (7-4, 1-2 ACC) lost the game 3-0, dropping their fourth match in the last five games after winning six straight to start the season.

However, three of those losses came on the road against top-10 teams, the others being against No. 10 Clemson to begin conference play and against No. 7 South Carolina.

The Tar Heels (10-1, 3-0) were the highest-ranked team the Irish have faced all year, with the game being played in front of a home crowd of 2,316 people.

The Irish started the game strong, earning a corner kick in the second minute.

Graduate student defender Shannon Hendricks elevated a kick toward the back post that senior midfielder Alexis

Notre Dame volleyball opened conference play this weekend with home games against North Carolina and North Carolina State. The Irish (9-3, 2-0) swept both the Tar Heels (3-9, 0-2) and the Wolfpack (5-9, 0-2) to kick off their ACC slate.

On Friday night, the Irish took on the Tar Heels in a game that was tightly contested for the first two sets, as the Irish only won by two points in each. The first set was tied at 11 points apiece before the teams traded runs and North Carolina took a 22-19 lead. However, errors on the part of the Tar Heels allowed Notre Dame to steal the lead back and win the opening period 25-23.

In the second stanza, Notre Dame recorded several errors that limited them, and only recorded a .104 hit percentage after hitting .314 in the first set. The Tar Heels took a 24-20 lead, one point from evening the score with Irish

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Aggressive defense can give, and aggressive defense can take away just as fast.

The Notre Dame men’s soccer team found that out the hard way Saturday morning against Virginia.

With 39 minutes to go in the game, junior midfielder Townsend Meyer rescued the Irish with a hard sliding block to deny a breakaway blast by Virginia star Daryl Dike. Less than twenty minutes later, Meyer went in for a challenge and was whistled for a controversial foul and penalty kick with 20:25 showing on the clock. Joe Bell stepped up to the spot and buried his effort in the bottom left corner, giving the Cavaliers a 1-0 lead that they would see out the rest of the way.

Virginia has given up just one goal in eight games, and

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Irish sophomore defender Jade Gosar clears the ball during Notre Dame’s 3-2 loss against Iowa at Alumni Stadium on Sept. 15.

at one set apiece, but the Notre Dame defense stepped up, recording six of their 10 blocks on the night in the second set. The Irish rallied to win the set 26-24 and take a commanding 2-0 lead into the third set.

Despite the Irish recording several errors in the third set, the Tar Heels yet again choked at the end of the set.

The Irish recorded a .324 hit percentage, their best of the night, and scored six straight points once again to win the final set 25-20 and take the match in a sweep.

Sophomore right-side hitter Sydney Bent and sophomore outside hitter Charley Niego led the Irish with 13 kills each, while sophomore setter Zoe Nunez recorded a teamhigh 34 assists. Junior libero Madison Cruzado recorded 18 digs and graduate student middle blocker Kristen Baer posted eight blocks to lead the Irish defense.

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and fourth quarter, what we want to be able to do is have that as part of our offense and it had been missing,” head coach Brian Kelly said. “So that has to be part of what we do.”

Part of the Irish struggles in the ground game are the injuries suffered by junior running back Jafar Armstrong and sophomore back Jahmir Smith, which limited Notre Dame’s rushing options to senior running back Tony Jones Jr. and a handful of less experienced players. As a result, the Irish passing attack has taken a hit.

The Irish are averaging 267 passing yards per game this season, up from 258 through the air per game in 2018. However, that increase is skewed by the fact that the Irish passing attack improved in 2018 once Book took over the reigns as starting quarterback, and over 100 yards passing this season came on touch passes against New Mexico that could just as easily have been handoffs.

After throwing for at least 200 yards in all but one game he started last season (160 vs Clemson), Book has failed to eclipse 200 yards passing against Louisville and Virginia this season.

Williams was far and away the team’s go-to rusher last season, with Jones Jr. second in yards with 392 and Armstrong second

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in touchdowns with seven. As a threat to rip off a big run, opposing defenses were forced to remain honest and respect the Irish run game, opening up opportunities for Book through the air.

Without Williams or Armstrong, the defenses have focused on limiting Book and will likely continue to do so until shown they must adjust.

However, this could prove beneficial for the Irish in the long run.

With Jones now forced into a more prominent role and younger players receiving more experience, their success would give defenses more to worry about once Armstrong returns. Kelly talked about the benefit of having more players run against Virginia.

“I’m not standing up here and telling you we have found ourselves offensively — we have not.

We’re far from where we want to be. We have got a lot of things to sort out and figure out offensively, but what we did is we gave Tony Jones a break,” he said. “So he ran hard in the second half and in particular the third and fourth quarter. When we got [sophomore running back] C’Bo [Flemister and] Jahmir in there; it gave him a chance to run the way he can run. And he’s a hard runner.”

Jones rushed for a career-high 131 yards against Virginia, and a career-high three touchdowns.

It marks the third game of Jones’ career and the second this season

that he has recorded 100+ yards rushing. He said that he’s been preparing himself to handle this kind of responsibility.

“I feel on the top of the world, to be honest,” Jones said. “I feel good. I’ve been grinding hard, in the weight room hard, practicing hard, and it’s showing out on the field.”

On his final touchdown, which effectively sealed the win for the Irish by putting them up 35-17, Jones said he couldn’t help but take advantage of the opportunity when he saw a gap open for him.

“Coach wanted us to keep running the ball to slow down the game, but I saw the hole and thought, ‘This is the cherry on top,’” Jones said.

With Armstrong possibly returning against USC, Jones won’t have to bear as much of a burden for much longer. Still, now is the time where he and the other backs can assert themselves and force future opponents to expand their game plan. He says he realizes the importance of that aspect of the offense.

“All good teams have to lean on their run game once in a while, and it just showed today,” he said.

When the running game is at full strength, Jones said what he believes the team is capable of: “Anything.”

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3rd

4th

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7 14

10 0

0 14

3 7

20 35

Virginia 7, notre dame 0

Joe Reed 6-yard pass from Bryce Perkins (Brian Delaney kick)

10:58

remaining Drive: Seven plays, 69 yards, 4:02 elapsed

NOTRE DAME 7, virginia 7

Tony Jones Jr. 5-yard run (Jonathan Doerer kick)

4:35

remaining Drive: 13 plays, 75 yards, 6:23 elapsed

Notre Dame 14, virginia 7

C’Bo Flemister 11-yard run (Doerer kick)

0:18

remaining Drive: Four plays, 54 yards, 1:49 remaining

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Notre dame 14, virginia 10 Delaney 32-yard field goal

8:07

remaining Drive: 15 plays, 61 yards, 7:11 elapsed

virginia 17, notre dame 14

Hasise Dubois 16-yard pass from Bryce Perkins (Delaney kick)

0:43

remaining Drive: Six plays, 76 yards, 1:02 elapsed

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Notre Dame 21, virginia 17

Jones Jr. 2-yard run (Doerer kick)

9:20

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for a 32-yard field goal to cut the lead to four points. The Irish defense could not get off the field, forcing fourth down once and two third downs of seven and 11 yards, respectively. However, the Cavaliers would convert each time. The Irish brought a steady stream of blitz packages against a weaker Virginia offensive line, daring Perkins to beat them with his arm. Perkins seemed primed to do just that, going 18-22 for 235 yards in the first half. He led a lastminute touchdown drive to give Virginia the lead before halftime.

Getting the ball with 1:45 on the clock, Perkins connected with junior wide receiver Hasise Dubois for 39 yards and Reed for 10. A pass interference call pushed the Cavaliers to the 16-yard line, where the Perkins-Dubois connection shined again, as Dubois made an impressive snag for the touchdown.

Halftime was supposed to be a chance for the Irish to catch their breath and prepare to start on offense in the second half, but the Cavaliers shocked the sellout crowd by recovering an onside kick to take possession at midfield. Virginia looked in prime position to make the game a twopossession game, but the Irish defense flexed their muscles, holding Virginia to just 10 yards on the drive and forcing a punt.

“We have to keep playing, and our defense did and came up with a big stop there,” Kelly said.

“You don’t have much time to sit down and talk. Just keep playing,

be determined, be stubborn and we’ll figure it out.”

The Irish defense needed to keep grinding in the second half, as the offense struggled to generate much momentum. After being pinned on their two-yard line, they would gain just four yards and punt it back, giving the Cavaliers the ball on the Irish 45-yard line. Three plays later, Tagovailoa came up with his huge play. Senior defensive lineman Jamir Jones delivered a booming hit on Perkins and the ball popped loose, setting the stage for Tagovailoa’s 48-yard return.

The defense continued to show out in the second half, holding Virginia to 11 yards on their next three drives combined, allowing the offense time to lift themselves out of the mud.

“It’s a brotherhood,” Kelly said.

“These guys really enjoy playing with each other. They got challenged today and they didn’t flinch, they didn’t blink and they played really good football in the second half.”

As the offense continued to struggle, punting on their next possession, the defense stepped up once more, as Okwara drilled Perkins again, forcing another fumble which senior defensive lineman Ade Ogundeji scooped up and trucked into the end zone for a 28-17 lead. After trading punts, senior safety Alohi Gilman picked off Perkins at the Notre Dame 29, setting up the Irish for one final productive drive. The running game got untracked, with Tony Jones racing for 28 yards on one carry, and then sprinting for 30 more for a gamesealing touchdown run one play

later.

Backup tight end Tommy Tremble sprung a block that opened a hole for Jones, who racked up 131 yards on the ground at over seven yards per carry. Despite how pleased he was with the rushing attack, Jones was quick to express confidence in quarterback Ian Book and the passing game.

“To be honest, our team can pass the ball, run the ball, we can do anything,” he said. “This game showed that because we passed the ball well in the first half, and we ran the ball well in the second half.”

Ian Book threw for 165 yards, but he didn’t find the end zone and seemed rattled at times scrambling outside of the pocket, including getting flagged for two intentional grounding penalties.

Freshman safety Kyle Hamilton would ice the cake with one final turnover for the Irish defense, firing up the home crowd with a slick diving pick on Virginia’s final drive. Notre Dame used four different rushers to run out the last four minutes of the clock and seal the victory. Overall, the Irish forced five turnovers on three fumbles and two interceptions; they scored 28 points off those turnovers.

Coming off last week‘s emotional loss, Notre Dame needed a statement win against Virginia.

Yet, they still have their eyes on one thing.

“We want to compete for a national championship,” Jones said.

“We can accomplish anything.”

Contact Aidan Thomas at athoma28@nd.edu

remaining Drive: Two plays, seven yards, 0:30 elapsed

NOTRE DAME 28, virginia 17

Adetokunbo Ogundeji 23-yard fumble return (Doerer kick)

1:41

remaining Drive: Three plays, two yards, 1:20 elapsed

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NOTRE DAME 35, virginia 17

Jones Jr. 30-yard run (Doerer kick)

10:28

remaining Drive: Five plays, 71 yards, 2:04 elapsed

NOTRE DAME 35, virginia 20 Delaney 27-yard field goal

6:28

remaining Drive: 12 plays, 65 yards, 4:00 elapsed

statistics RUSHING yards 4 157

PASSING yards 334 165

total yards 338 322

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ANNA MASON | The Observer

Irish junior wide receiver Michael Young runs downfield after a reception during Notre Dame’s 35-20 victory over Virginia at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday. After missing the first three games due to injury, Young recorded three catches for 19 yards Saturday. Last season, Young averaged 19.7 receiving yards per game, including a 66-yard reception.

locking down the gridiron

While the Caveliers struck first on an impressive seven-play drive, Notre Dame settled in and managed to punch back a score of their own. A late second-quarter touchdown gave the Caveliers the lead, but ultimately, Saturday afternoon belonged to the Notre Dame defense who shut down Bryce Perkins and the Virginia offense, forcing three fumbles and two interceptions.

ALLISON THORNTON | The Observer

Irish junior tight end Cole Kmet is hit as he catches the ball during Notre Dame’s victory Saturday.

ALLISON THORNTON | The Observer

Irish senior wide receiver Chase Claypool is dragged out of bounds during Notre Dame’s 35-20 win over Virginia at home on Saturday.

ANNA MASON | The Observer

Irish graduate student wide receiver Chris Finke is brought down during the 35-20 Notre Dame win.

ANNA MASON | The Observer

Irish senior quarterback Ian Book scrambles with the ball during Notre Dame’s 35-20 win against Virginia on Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium. Book finished the game 17-for-25 passing for 165 yards.