Print Edition of The Observer for Tuesday, March 21, 2017
s eminar class travels to London
Students explore English culture, history on all-expenses-paid trip over break
By SELENA PONIO
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For 12 students in a class called “The life and Times of henry the viii,” learning was not restricted to the walls of a classroom.
The seminar in the college of a rts and letters hosted an allexpenses-paid trip to london for its students to help them gain a more in-depth understanding of the culture and history behind their readings.
sophomore Jarod luedecker was one of the students that went on the trip to london and other cities in england. he said the most moving experience came when he saw the wall graffiti on the stones of the Tower of london.
“it was so intricate, and it was hard to imagine that prison was made almost 500 years ago and it still survives today,” luedecker said. “The fact that they felt the
need to leave behind a memento was really moving.”
luedecker said they also saw the mary rose, henry viii’s Tudor warship that sank along with 300 people on it. he said he learned it sat at the bottom of the sea for 400 years, and the students got to see what was left on the ship.
“They had rosaries that men carried on board, and it was moving to think about men holding those rosaries and praying while the ship sunk,” luedecker said.
sophomore maggie behan said she applied to this college seminar not only because the trip to london caught her eye, but also because she had a deep fascination for history.
“i think [this trip] really helped because it’s easy to talk about things in class, but they all just kind of run together,” behan said.
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Family funds new institute
Observer Staff Report
The university announced in a press release Friday that it has received a $15 million donation from s outh bend residents r afat and Zoreen a nsari and their family for the creation of a worldwide religious studies institute.
according to the press release, the future r afat and Zoreen a nsari i nstitute for global e ngagement with religion will be will be included in the donald r . Keough
c
By GABY JANSEN news writer
a saint mary’s marine biology class took learning in depth to a whole new meaning. The class spent spring break in belize at south water caye applying what it learned in the classroom life to the natural world.
saint mary’s assistant biology professor laura Kloepper said marine biology had not been
s chool of global a ffairs. r s cott a ppleby, the marilyn Keough dean of the Keough s chool, said in the press release that this addition to the school will provide opportunities for faculty members and students to explore the effect of religion on a global scale.
“The various roles of religions in alleviating suffering, accompanying the migrant and the refugee, serving the poor and reducing violent conflict are far less
understood and publicized than the havoc created by a tiny minority of deluded religious extremists on every continent,” a ppleby said in the release. “The a nsari i nstitute intends to change the conversation about religion — not by denying the troubling aspects of religious expression, but by directing attention to the vast good done by religions, and the even greater good they might accomplish in
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taught in years, but the department now plans on regularly running the class. she said this trip is part of the lab component for the class.
“we’ve resurrected the marine biology class and we plan on teaching this every two years,” Kloepper said.
Kloepper said studying belize was an obvious choice because of its diverse environment.
“if you’re teaching marine
biology in indiana doing a lab is a little difficult,” Kloepper said. “[belize] is also one of the few coral reefs that is still fairly unaffected by coral bleaching.”
Kloepper said the class went boating in the morning and worked on their individual projects in the afternoon.
“as a class we were doing a marine life census,” Kloepper
Law student dies
Observer Staff Report
First-year law student Travis mcelmurry, 30, died in his offcampus residence where he was found sunday night, according to a university press release.
st. Joseph county coroner michael mcgann said the cause of mcelmurry’s death is unknown at this time, though he saw no signs of foul play or other unnatural causes. a n autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday morning.
“a s a university community, we mourn Travis’ passing,” university p resident Fr. John Jenkins said in the release. “o ur prayers are with his family and
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Women’s choir tours over break
By MARTHA REILLY
s aint mary’s e ditor
performing at venues in colorado, missouri, Kansas and indiana helped members of saint mary’s women’s choir ensure their spring break didn’t fall flat.
senior lauren Zyber said the group stayed with alumnae of the college at various stops on the tour, and seeing them in the crowd added an extra dimension of meaning to the concerts.
“a lot of them were very emotional and moved by the music,” Zyber said. “seeing them tear up in the audience … i had to force myself not to look at them because it would make me really emotional about this experience.”
several of the alumnae who housed choir members achieved professional success after graduation, Zyber said.
“we stayed with a music major who is now a pulmonary specialist, a top doctor in her field,” she said. “it was really wonderful to see how successful saint mary’s women are.”
sophomore grace haase said
the alumnae she encountered along the way provided her with valuable advice about discerning a career path.
“one of the main things i’ve learned through choir is that it’s okay if you don’t know what you want to do after graduation,” haase said.
according to haase, women’s choir maintains such a tight-knit relationship because all members are made to feel indispensable.
“everyone is important. There’s no ‘this person is better than this person.’ you have to make sure that your voice doesn’t stand out,” haase said.
Zyber said belonging to women’s choir enforces ideals of commitment and teamwork.
“you learn about how you can blend with people and how if one person is gone it affects the whole choir,” Zyber said. “if one person is missing, it’s automatically heard, and we sound weaker. That naturally fosters a strong community.” according to Zyber, the friendships members of women’s choir
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Photo courtesy of Jarod Luedecker
Students traveled to London and other English cities over spring break as part of a College of Arts and Letters history seminar.
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Joey Wikelski junior Farley hall
“I ate Tex-mex at least once a day.”
Annalise Arroyo freshman Lewis hall
“e ating really good food.”
Sarah Harrison junior breen-Phillips hall
“Watching netflix.”
Members of the Notre Dame band perform the Alma Mater after the men’s basketball team’s second-round NCAA tournament game Saturday at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York. The Irish lost to West Virginia 83-71, ending their tournament run.
Tuesday
Global Cafe: St. Patrick’s Day Edition
LaFortune Student Center
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Come enjoy free food.
“A Show of Fire and Ice”
Jordan Hall of Science
6 p.m., 7 p.m.
A free, but ticketed, physics show.
Wednesday
Readings by Hilary Plum and Zach Savich
Hammes Notre Dame
Bookstore
7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Alan Schwarz Talk Medoza College of Business
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Award-winning writer discusses his work.
Thursday
PEMCo Performance: “Grease” Washington Hall
7 p.m.
PEMCo’s spring show runs through Saturday.
“What Does Trump’s Election Mean?” Hesburgh Library
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
A conversation on the Age of Trump.
Friday
Last Day for Course
Discontinuance
Campus-wide
Last day for students to drop a class without a withdrawal mark.
Higgins Labor Cafe Geddes Hall
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
All people are welcome, and all opinions are tolerated.
Saturday
Indoor CyclingSpring 2017 Freebies
Rockne Memorial
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Married authors to speak at Saint Mary’s
By GINA TWARDOSZ news Writer
authors and married couple elizabeth and ned stuckeyFrench will speak at saint mary's on their work as well as their experiences of being married to and living with a spouse who is an author. The lecture will take place in carroll auditorium at 7 p.m. on Thursday. english professor dionne
bremyer said elizabeth and ned are both established writers in their own right: elizabeth is a novelist and ned is an essayist.
“elizabeth’s most recent book is called ‘The revenge of radioactive Lady,’ but she’s also written a couple short story collections and a [young adult] novel,” she said. “ned is an essayist who’s written about the form of writing essays, and also a couple personal essays.”
bremyer said by hosting the two authors, students can learn more about the different dynamics of writing, as well as meet prolific members of contemporary society.
“We get to see the way two artists live and work together and think about what that dynamic is like, but we also get to think about the different paths we use to get to essay versus fiction, or think about what makes an essay versus what makes a short story and how we decide which is which,” she said. “a s well, they’re just amazing prolific writers and teachers, so i thought they would be wonderful people to have on our campus. a nd they’re also from indiana, so there’s a nice local connection there, too.”
bremyer said hosting visiting writers is a great way for students to obtain guidance for their own writing careers as well.
“one thing that’s important for students to see is how the messy writing done in the classroom translates into a career,” she said. “it’s not always a straight line where the student graduates school and immediately becomes a writer. What does [being a writer] even mean, what does it look like, and how do we get from a to b ? it’s important to see and talk about the process that artist’s have and for students to think about that as beginning artists and think about what they can learn from
artists who have been practicing for a long time.”
bremyer said inviting a visiting artist or writer to campus can be an intimate experience and is rewarding for all those involved.
“What other setting do you get that’s so intimate to talk with an artist one on one?” she said. “if you read an interview of them in a magazine, you might get some guidance from that but it’s nice to be able to ask questions and be in dialogue with the artist.”
bremyer said that while writing and english majors have the most to gain from attending the presentation, all majors can and will benefit.
“everyone should come,” she said. “it’s a chance to meet and interact with someone who is living and practicing in the world of art. sometimes we look at writing or art as something that happens at a distance. We should think about what contemporary artists bring to the world and what it’s like to be living in this contemporary moment.”
bremyer said visiting artists allow students to open themselves up to contemporary culture.
“some of the value, too, for all majors is thinking about writing itself,” she said. “students spend a lot of time in school where they’re assigned things and they have to read things, and they don’t necessarily think about the kind of citizens they’re going to be in the world after they get out into the world. sometimes
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many friends. m ay g od grant them consolation in this time of sorrow, and may n otre d ame, o ur Lady, watch over them.”
m c e lmurry was from g ranada h ills, c alifornia, and received his undergraduate degree from Pepperdine u niversity, according to the
a nsari
partnership with universities and other public and private institutions.”
The a nsari family said in the release they hope the institute will “help foster partnerships globally and locally,” and bring together communities “through a shared understanding of certain guiding principles inherent in all the world’s religions.”
“notre dame is well positioned to understand and enhance the role of religions and religious people in addressing systematic problems like poverty and violence – something we care about deeply,” the a nsaris said in the release. “having raised our family and built our lives
where i see students struggle after college is moving on without reading lists or some guidance in how to do things, and part of the process of being in college is learning about culture and learning about contemporary culture and how to interact with it. even if a student plans on becoming a mathematician, there’s still value in thinking about contemporary art and contemporary culture and what is able to be gained from it.”
bremyer said visiting writers expose us to art in a way that can fulfill our innermost human desires and help us navigate the complexity of the world.
“a ll good art speaks to what it means to be human,” she said. “our essential desire is story, regardless of what we’re interested in. constantly, we tell each other stories. if you think about conversations and interactions you have, it’s always storytelling. We’re always trying to get people to understand and empathize with our experience, or we’re trying to empathize with the experiences of others. We’re figuring out what it means to be human in this world — which is innately complicated and painful and sometimes joyous. it’s good to have art to filter that through. it helps us understand the experience of being human and couldn’t we all use a guide in that?”
Contact Gina Twardosz at gtwardosz01@saintmarys.edu
release.
i n an email sent to students m onday morning, v ice President of s tudent a ffairs e rin h offmann h arding said the u niversity c ounseling c enter ( ucc ) and c ampus m inistry resources are available to all members of the n otre d ame community, even during spring break. a campus memorial mass will be announced and held soon, according to the email.
in this community, so close to notre dame, we determined that now is the ideal time to partner with the university in this new way.”
university President Fr. John Jenkins said in the release that he is grateful for the prospect of deeper interfaith understanding within the university this donation presents.
“The need for people of faith to focus on what unites us rather than on what divides us has never been more urgent,” he said in the release. “This extraordinary gift from an esteemed local muslim family, longtime friends of notre dame, will allow us to bring together scholars of the first order to foster dialogue and deepen understanding. We are immensely grateful to the a nsaris for making this aspiration a reality.”
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said. “We are [going to] be sharing those data with an organization in belize that tracks the organisms across the reefs.”
senior biology major casey moorhead said during the trip the students saw what they learned in the classroom come to life by actually seeing the fish and algae of belize.
“We’ve been learning about fish identification, algae [identification] and we were able to apply what we learned in the class in the field over break,” moorhead said.
senior biology major a lly Pudlo said in an email that the class learned about how different organisms interact as well as their roles in the environment.
“We learned about the different interactions that occur at the reefs between fish and the corals,” Pudlo said. “We also learned about how vital the mangroves are to the environment and what they provide for the fish and the people.”
moorhead said the main purpose of the trip was for the class to learn first-hand about coral reefs.
“mostly this trip was going out in the field and learning about different composition of the different reefs around there,” moorhead said.
Kloepper said the best way her biology students can learn is by
experiencing and dealing with a situation when nothing is going according to plan.
“When you’re out in the field doing field work nothing ever goes according to plan,”
Kloepper said. “so it was really good for the students to be able to … learn how to adapt their experiments according to these real world scenarios.”
Kloepper said her students adapted to field research quickly while facing challenges.
“The students became very good field biologists overnight,”
Kloepper said. “There was a lot of frustration, but a really important part of science is understanding that those frustrations are natural and learning how to change your experiment based on any challenges that come up.”
While there were some frustrations, the students said overall they had a good time. moorhead said she enjoyed the class’ night snorkel where it saw animals that were only out at night.
“We did a night snorkel one night … we were all with our dive lights swimming around the reef and you would look to your left or right and it would just be complete darkness,” moorhead said. “so we saw an eel, stingrays and then a sea star that opens up at night which was really cool.”
Contact Gaby Jansen at gjanse01@saintmarys.edu
develop play integral roles in improving the quality of their performances.
“When people care about each other, they’re just naturally going to sing better together,” she said. “ it increases morale, and that connection can actually really affect your sound. When you’re singing with people that you can connect with, it becomes something really special, and i think that transfers to the music.”
Zyber said performing with Women’s c hoir enables her to learn from those around her.
“o ne of the things that
is great about choir is that you get a lot of people from different backgrounds and majors and disciplines and fields,” she said. “c hoir is not talked about as a team sport, but it really is. When you sing in a choir, you learn about how you can listen to other parts.”
Zyber said she was happy to see first-year students enjoying the touring experience, since she strives to welcome them into the group.
“it was really great to see the freshmen blossom,” she said. “b eing a senior, it’s interesting to think about how i am a leader in the choir. i think back to ... how much i looked up to the
together, but he now has a memory to associate with the place as a result of the trip to London.
“but when you’re able to see and touch and feel the things you’ve talked about, it makes it more real, and it makes it come to life.”
Luedecker said he now has a physical experience to supplement his learning from class. he said at one point they visited hampton court Palace, a palace he had read about previously in class. he said they had read about so many palaces in class that they started to blend
Luedecker, a history major, said although the class was heavily related to history and required a lot of reading, he thought it was relevant to everyone, no matter their major. he said anyone could benefit from seeing the places they saw on their trip and that it added an extra dimension to their learning. b y traveling to the places they learned about, they gained a more profound reverence for the culture and
upperclassmen.”
s tudents should embrace the opportunity to listen to the choir’s music at its upcoming concert, which will take place at 7:30 p.m. on m arch 24 in the c hurch of o ur Lady of Loretto, according to Zyber.
a ccording to Zyber, knowing the s aint m ary’s community supports Women’s c hoir energizes the group’s performances.
“ n ot only are we sharing our music, but we’re also sharing the gift of s aint m ary’s,” Zyber said. “That’s why we sing.”
Contact Martha Reilly at mreilly01@saintmarys.edu
time period that their readings came from, Luedecker said.
“There’s so much history there,” Luedecker said. “That period of architecture, you could tell right when you looked at it because of the red brick and spiral chimneys.
“ it gives you a deeper connection with the history, and you understand the significance of events that happened 500 years ago.”
Contact Selena Ponio at sponio@nd.edu
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By NORA McGREEVY
s cene e ditor
In her recently released netflix special, “The Leather special,” Amy schumer walks onstage in an all-leather ensemble brimming with casual confidence. one of the first jokes she cracks is about her outfit. “every comedian has a special where they wear only leather and they regret it later,” she quips before veering into a cuss-laced rant about how uncomfortable she feels in the outfit. “Already regret it — already regret it. very overheated!”
The irony is that, at the same time, schumer appears radically comfortable onstage. An emmy-nominated and winning comedian, schumer possesses a fearless, magnetic stage presence. she’s dynamic and expressive, acting out raunchy scenes with reckless abandon and traversing the stage like it’s her very own living room, or maybe — given the nature of the jokes — her very own university residence hall.
schumer’s style of joke-telling, and the graphic content upon which her jokes rely, can either land as enormously off-putting or incredibly hilarious, depending on the setting and the audience. True to the theme established in her previous specials, most recently “mostly sex stuff” in 2012 and “Live at the Apollo” in 2015, the bulk of schumer’s content is raunchy to the extreme. she deals primarily in sex jokes and physical comedy,
the vast majority of which are unfit to print here or in the pages of any other publication.
In “The Leather special,” schumer hits the ground running, launching into a full 40 minutes of sexually explicit material. It’s shocking and vulgar — especially because as soon as you think schumer might lay off the sex jokes for a bit, she swings back with a vengeance. It’s shocking, and the shots of audience members’ faces reflect this: they’re laughing with mouths wide open, gaping and a bit dazed.
And that, for the most part, is the point: to subvert boundaries and deliver the exact kind of authentic or explicit content that schumer wants to communicate, deferring to nobody. In my opinion, however, the raunchiest bits of the show — which comprise the majority of the special — start to feel repetitive around minute 20, and verge on worn-out around the half hour mark.
Luckily, schumer changes direction for an extended segment about forty minutes into her special, and delivers a heartfelt critique of lax American gun policies. “If you’re blind,” she riffs, “you can walk into a gun store … hopefully,” and then throws out another pointed line, “can we just work on not giving guns to mentally ill terrorists who are blind and beating their wives?”
This is the social-justice oriented schumer that won emmys for the skit-based T v show “Inside Amy schumer,” combining schumer’s absolute fearlessness to take risks
with an ability to riff off-the-cuff on social issues in a way that makes them accessible and also poignant. her speech — and it truly feels like a speech, compared with the rest of the production — oscillates between silly and serious, littered with cuss-words yet delivered with sobering gravitas. In my opinion, while the rest of the show felt trite, these ten minutes succeeded.
schumer ends the show with a creative callback to her very first joke, which is both surprising and delightful. she continues to make fun of her own appearance by comparing herself to a v ictoria’s secret Angel. The punchline doesn’t come until the very last second, when she flippantly declares that it doesn’t, in the end, matter — “That b---- will never be brave!”
The ending exemplifies many of the characteristics of the show as a whole — an occasionally confusing mix of sincere and insincere, of self-deprecation and selfappreciation delivered jointly in quick succession along with moments of pointed social critique paired with looser slapstick bits. That being said, schumer is correct in that her humor warrants attention — she’s already gotten significant online hate for the show, and it’s sure to continue in the coming months. being Amy schumer requires a distinct brand of bravery, one which schumer possesses in good measure.
Contact Nora McGreevy at nmcgreev@nd.edu
By MIKE DONOVAN s cene Writer
As frontman for the montreal-based noise-rock quartet ought, Tim darcy dealt largely with the macro. The group, comprised entirely of American expats, painted harsh images of montreal’s urban nightlife with serrated guitar strokes, tweaked deadpan deliveries and needlepoint lyricism. darcy and his bandmates saw themselves as a third-party link between montreal’s lucid streets and ought’s poignant post-punk. The grew their mythos out of detachment.
darcy’s debut solo effort, “saturday night,” stands in stark contrast to his work with ought. It replaces the macro with the micro, detachment with introspection and dissonance with melody. of course, these abrupt shifts are to be expected; we’ve seen them before. Look at the unabashed pop of Lou reed’s self-titled solo debut in light of his mind-bending experimental work with the velvet Underground, or maybe Paul Westerberg’s heavyhanded embrace of the guitar ballad as he methodically established his hegemony over fellow punks in the replacements. The noise and clamor of band-produced music typically gives way to intimacy when a brilliant songwriter is involved.
darcy is a brilliant songwriter — or at least on his way to becoming one. If you pull back ought’s cold angular arrangements, you’ll find that darcy’s ought lyrics prefigure the keen sensitivity that defines “saturday night.” “I’m no longer afraid to die / because that’s all I have left,” darcy concedes on ought’s signature track “beautiful blue sky,” shedding an individual light on the sociopolitical rant that precedes it. The decrepit nature of the macro world, darcy seems to say, frees the individual to explore without fearing the consequences.
“saturday night” marks the culmination of darcy’s fearless explorations. he’s no longer willing to hide behind strange chord structures and poetic angst. experimental post-punk, while it appears dangerous, is actually quite safe. Its inaccessibility serves as an impenetrable bubble, obscuring the musician’s nuanced emotional intricacies in a disorienting fuzz. Pop, on the other hand, has no protective barrier. If you only have a few minutes and a few chords, transparency is your only option.
The album’s standout track, “still Waking Up,” is also its most accessible. The bonafide love song makes stylistic allusions to John cale and roy orbison and lyrical allusions to the early work of the beatles. “Waking up alone / Was always a hard day’s night,” darcy croons over some delightfully rootsy guitar bedrock, “cause my head is full of popular songs.” The track is an admittance of sorts. he’s pledging himself to pop’s universal affectations over the critic-pleasing calculations of post-rock.
“First Final days” embraces these popular affectations with greater referential depth. The instrumental piece would be right at home behind the vocals of indie-pop trailblazers like Galaxie 500 and the Pastels. The bustle ode brings the listener to a time when the edgier crowd favored the off-beat melodic mannerism of twee and indiepop was synonymous with controlled chaos.
“Tall Glass of Water,” the album’s second single, conjoins two distinct pop-structure songs in an uneasy marriage, inserting a sliver of rage into the new palatable imperative. The first minute borrows heavily from the velvet Underground’s three-chord rippers on “Loaded,” while the second two present cohesive strokes-style instrumentation with a post-punk sheen. The Frankensteinian structure makes the track, like the monster, both alarming and genial.
darcy doesn’t completely abandon the disgruntled edge
of his ought days. “st. Germaine,” a spiritual twin to “still Waking Up,” takes its predecessors’ pop sensibility and colors it three shades darker. The noise-rock traditionalism of the title track, the piano fueled balladry of “What’d You release?” and the shoegaze of “beyond me” — which recalls cocteau Twins — accompany “st. Germain” in safeguarding darcy’s familiar dark side. The resulting b-side exhudes an air of shocking morbidity, perfectly counterbalancing the ephemerality of the A-side.
“saturday night’s” unstable position between the pop and the experimental marks a major advance for the noise rock and Americana subgenres. darcy proves intelligent intimacy can glue the diametrically opposed disciplines together. his honest songwriting effectively renders genre barriers pointless.
With this in mind, it would be more accurate to say that “saturday night” reestablishes the purpose of the solo record. darcy’s solo debut isn’t just an excuse to try a softer and quieter genre. It’s a quest to dig deeper and explore the variable caverns of his inner life. It’s an expansive, standalone artistic statement as opposed to a mere side project.
Contact Mike Donovan at mdonov10@nd.edu
“Saturday Night”
Tim Darcy
Label: Jagjaguwar
If you like: Ought, The Velvet Underground, Kevin Morby Tracks: “Still Waking Up,” “St. Germaine”
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): dig up pertinent information regarding your investments, a pending deal or issues concerning your health. A couple of adjustments will put you in a favorable position to make a move. do the work and you will gain respect and rewards.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): do what you can to help others, but don’t let anyone take you for granted. Work alongside someone instead of taking on their responsibilities. be a mentor, not a controller. The greatest satisfaction will come from shared success.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): remain calm no matter what transpires today. someone will test your patience, and temptation will lead to situations that could be costly. Partnerships will need to be handled with diplomacy and compassion if you want to keep the peace.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): experience will be the key to getting ahead. live and learn as you forge into new territory. express your feelings and engage in talks that will make you reconsider the best way to move forward. Personal improvements will lead to compliments.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): stop thinking about all the things you have to accomplish and just start doing them. Taking action will bring the results you are looking for and should encourage you to take on new projects that inspire you to do even more.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Watch your step when dealing with others. not everyone will be on the same page, making it difficult to bring about the changes you want at home or at work. overreacting will put a wedge between you and someone you love.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): use your imagination when dealing with matters that will influence partnerships or your home environment. It’s important to feel comfortable and at ease in your surroundings if you want to accomplish your goals. do what needs to be done.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): be productive and pointed about how you go about your day. giving in to laziness or meddling in other people’s affairs will result in a lack of success. don’t pass up an opportunity to get ahead at work. networking will be fruitful.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): d on’t share secrets or agree to changes you don’t agree with. l ook for a way to move forward alone if you can’t come to terms with the choices you have. Insecurity will lead to impulsive decisions and regret.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): get it together. use discipline and willingness to bring about change and you will excel. Trust in your ability to set the foundation for improvement in your life as well as in your community. be ready to fight for your rights.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): you’ll face limitations and frustrations if you are unrealistic or unable to face facts. honesty and self-assessment will encourage you to do what it takes to improve your skills, knowledge and future. don’t sit back when you should be moving forward.
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Daniel O’Boyle sports Writer
Imagine you’re a lifelong c leveland c avaliers fan, living in Los Angeles. You’ve watched Le b ron James carry an otherwise weak c avaliers team to consistent playoff berths and a finals appearance, leave for m iami, return to c leveland and eventually carry your team a championship with an all-time great finals performance.
You raise your kids as loyal c avaliers fans too. They watched the finals with you. They want to grow up to be Le b ron.
You check the c avaliers’ 2016-2017 schedule when it comes out, and notice the team will be in Los Angeles for two games visiting the c lippers and Lakers. After hearing that your friends the Anderson’s got tickets to the game, you decide to save up and get your family tickets to the c lippers- c avaliers game on m arch 18. You and your kids can’t wait to finally see Le b ron, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love in person.
Until Tyronn Lue announces the c avaliers inactives — Love, who had been recovering with an injury, misses out, but you can live with that; but Kyrie is out too, which upsets you and the kids you’ve taught to keep an open mind to flat-eartherism; and worst of all, the greatest basketball player in the world is inactive too. c leveland’s starting lineup is d eron Williams, J. r s mith, Iman s humpert, c hanning Frye and Tristan Thompson. They lose by 30 points, with no player scoring more than 12.
You can’t get any tickets to see the c avaliers play the Lakers the next day. You’re not sure if you’ll have the time or the money to go to another game when the c avaliers next come to Los Angeles. You just wasted your money to see a weakened c avaliers team get blown out.
That’s a situation that may well have occurred for last week’s c avaliers- c lippers game, when c leveland rested all of its “b ig Three.” That’s not the only time c leveland has done it this season
either, resting the trio for other games such as a trip to m iami earlier this month. And nor are the c avaliers the only team to do this. When the Warriors met the s purs on m arch 11 — in what would normally be one of the most anticipated matchups of the season — s teph c urry, Klay Thompson and d raymond Green were all rested. c ombined with Kevin d urant’s absence due to injury, the entire Warriors “b ig Four” was missing. Fans instead were able to watch rookie Patrick m c c aw go 0-for-12 shooting in a comfortable s purs win.
It’s hard to blame teams for this. The fact is that the system favors giving stars regular rest. An 82-game regular season just for the right to higher seeding and home court advantage for the playoffs means that coaches are nearly always making the right call by effectively throwing a few near-meaningless games. Last year, the better-rested c avaliers defeated the greatest regular season team of all time because the Warriors wasted too much energy fighting with the s purs for the top seed in the West and with the ‘96 b ulls for the all-time record single-season win total. Teams that perform in the regular season but underwhelm in the playoffs are at best forgotten and at worst become the butt of jokes, so it only makes sense to play to the system and let a few regular season games slide. That may make sense for the coaches at least, but for the fan who scrapes together money for a ticket to see his or her heroes declared inactive, it’s a tough loss. If the system favors letting a team’s main draws sit, then maybe it needs changed. The regular season should be shortened or its games should be better spaced-apart. If fans can’t go to games expect to see a team’s healthy stars, then something isn’t right.
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tried to close the gap, but West virginia made big shots to hold us off any time we thought we had a little hope.”
West virginia chiefly does two things really well: forcing turnovers, with its “Press virginia” system, and crashing the offensive glass, with its frontline that features 6-foot-8 sophomore esa Ahmad, 6-foot-9 junior elijah macon and 6-foot-9 senior nathan Adrian.
For the first few minutes saturday, neither particularly plagued the Irish. notre dame turned it over just once in its first 10 possessions, and the Irish held the mountaineers to just three second-chance points in the whole first half.
Yet, despite ticking those boxes, the Irish found themselves behind 10-0.
soon, the turnover bug hit. sophomore guard rex Pflueger, freshman guard T.J. Gibbs and junior forward martinas Geben turned it over on consecutive possessions, then later in the half, two turnovers in three possessions. still, when Gibbs hit a pair of free throws with 4:31 left in the half, the Irish had closed the gap to just three, 32-29. Three turnovers later, it was back out to nine, at 38-29.
“[The press] wasn’t something that we didn’t handle as well as we thought we could,” junior forward bonzie colson said. “It sucks that we didn’t do what we should have done.”
In one way or another, that was the trend the rest of the day.
When a pair of senior guard steve vasturia layups cut a 42-35 halftime deficit to 43-39, it was a carter jumper and sophomore forward esa Ahmad dunk that helped pushed the mountaineers’ advantage straight back to nine. When five colson points and a junior guard matt Farrell 3-pointer brought the Irish within four twice, two Tarik Phillip 3s either side of a carter trey pushed the lead back to 10. When vasturia cut the lead to seven with 6:46 left, it was Ahmad who hit a 3.
And with 2:35 left, just after sophomore forward matt ryan brought the Irish within six, carter stepped up, hit a 3 and just about guaranteed a mountaineers win.
“Good defense, better offense,” Farrell said. “They’ve got talented guys who can score and those are backbreakers.”
In many ways, it was colson who kept notre dame in the game saturday. The junior forward was 10-for-15 from the field — including a 4-for-5 performance from 3-point range — as he racked up 27 points and eight rebounds in the defeat. The performance, brey said, was made more impressive by the fact that colson, who played the final 9:47 with four fouls, was still feeling the effects of his sprained ankle suffered a week
earlier.
“he puts the team on his back and he’s not 100 percent,” brey said. “That ankle is bothering him. That’s one of the great performances, just trying to carry a team on a bad wheel.”
colson played the final 9:47 with four fouls, but brey said there was never a chance of his star coming out.
“That’s the ‘coaching 101’ textbook that doesn’t mean a damn thing,” brey said. “If I take him out, we lose by 20. he’s smart enough, he’s a veteran — he’s gotta play and he’s gonna be smart defensively, which he was, but he’s scoring for us. If you play around and, well, we’ll save him for the last — get out of here.”
but where colson was pouring it in, the rest of the Irish squad wasn’t. colson’s teammates shot a combined 12-for-39 from the field, and hit just 6-of-23 3-point attempts. The most notable struggles, however, came from the squad’s two senior captains: vasturia was just 1-for-5 from 3-point range, while forward v.J. beachem was only 2-of-14 from the field, including 1-of-9 from deep.
“my teammates did a great job of finding me open shots like they usually do,” beachem said. “You know today, I just wasn’t able to knock them down.”
despite the struggles, it was easy for brey to stick with his leader.
“he’s our guy. he’s been a guy that has kind of bounced out of it and made those, then,” brey said. “he’s had tough games maybe for 31 minutes and then he makes a couple plays at the end. And I just felt, you’ve gotta ride him.”
When he was in the game, ryan was a spark — he jumped a passing lane to feed Farrell and kickstart an Irish run in the first half, while his 3-pointer with 3:07 left was ultimately the last gasp of hope for the notre dame faithful.
“We snuck matt ryan in there a bit and he gave us some really good stuff here, not only tonight, but in the postseason, which sets him up for next season,” brey said.
While the Irish turned the ball
over 10 times in the first half, they adjusted in the second half, giving the ball away just four times against the West virginia pressure. but notre dame just couldn’t get the stops, or the buckets, it needed at key points in the second half.
“Their style of play is hard to deal with. It wore on us at times,” brey said. “even though we only turned it over 14 times, four in the second half, it probably caused us to miss some of those open looks. You’re going to have to make some open looks after you get it out of the trap, and we probably couldn’t make enough of them.”
The mountaineers finished 8-for-14 as a team from behind the arc, shooting far better from deep than their pregame season average (36.3 percent).
“I thought we could play a little more zone and make them make more 3s, and they made every big 3-point shot, and carter is a bigtime winner,” brey said.
brey said he expects colson to return next season for his senior year, but that if the opportunity is there, he’ll support colson’s decision to head to the nbA a year early.
“We’ll explore and talk about it,” brey said. “I think he knows he should be a four-year guy, but like with any of our guys, if it’s time to really analyze and evaluate — and, if one team loves you and it’s the 18th pick in the draft, I’ll be the first to shake his hand.”
senior forward Ausin Torres will return for a fifth year, but the loss marks the end of beachem and vasturia’s careers at notre dame. The duo leaves notre dame after accumulating 97 wins in four seasons — a school record.
“It’s tough. Two really good players and two really good guys; I’m just going to miss them off the court, you know,” Farrell said. “but they’ve got something to celebrate. Two great careers here — I’m trying to remember all the fun times we had — really good players and even better guys off the court.”
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the scoring, giving the i rish (32-3, 15-1 acc ) their first deficit of this year’s tournament. Purdue continued to hold the advantage through the first quarter, leading 17-13 at the end of the period. s enior forward bridget Perry and freshman guard d ominique o den led the b oilermakers offense early, combining for 15 of those 17 points.
i n the second quarter, however, the i rish proved why they were given a no. 1 seed. f irst, it was freshman guard Jackie Young and freshman forward e rin b oley who took over, scoring the first 12 i rish points of the quarter to give notre d ame the lead. Young said she was determined to make a difference after having a limited impact against robert morris on f riday.
“i just knew i had to come out and produce today,” Young said. “i didn’t have a great game last game, so i knew i had to do some things to help my team. i knew that started with getting rebounds because we needed some, and then i knew i had to help on the offensive end and the defensive end.”
Then, sophomore guard m arina m abrey added eight points in just under two minutes to stretch the i rish lead to double digits. i n the closing minutes of the quarter, Turner scored eight points and — with the i rish leading by 14 — looked set to add another basket after catching a lob pass from sophomore guard a rike o gunbowale while wide open under the hoop.
Turner didn’t extend the i rish lead, however. her left knee buckled when she landed, and she fell to the floor, eventually walking to the locker room with some assistance from the team’s trainers.
Turner didn’t return to the court for the rest of the game, but the i rish held on to their double-digit lead through the third quarter. d espite their lead, the i rish did not appear to be safe. The b oilermakers set themselves up to get back into the game thanks to fouls from the already-depleted notre d ame frontcourt. Junior forward Kathryn Westbeld, who already had two firstquarter fouls, picked up one more, while junior forward Kristina nelson picked up her second of the game in the third period.
i n the fourth quarter, the foul count on Westbeld and nelson became more and more of a concern. With five minutes left in the game, the i rish still led by 10 points, but Westbeld was up to four fouls and nelson had three. Then, with the i rish on offense, nelson was called for an illegal screen.
With both Westbeld and nelson unable to risk another
foul, the Purdue flurry began. a fter Purdue scored eight unanswered points to narrow the gap to two points, o gunbowale’s layup attempt balanced precariously on the rim before falling to b oilermakers senior forward bridget Perry. Perry was fouled immediately by Westbeld, meaning the i rish forward would be the second notre d ame starter to see no more action in the contest.
Perry made both of her foul shots to tie the game with 32 seconds remaining. i rish senior guard Lindsay a llen drove to the basket on the final possession for the i rish but could not finish. With four seconds remaining after using a timeout, Purdue had a chance to take the game in regulation but couldn’t get a shot away.
mc g raw said a combination of mistakes and the absence of Turner led to Purdue getting back into the game.
“it was a little bit of us,” mc g raw said. “Lindsay [ a llen] drove it, nobody got back [and] they got a layup. Then we took another shot, they got it back [and] they got another layup. They had six points in transition when we were up 10, and that killed us. That was not protecting the rim. That was really bad. They got on an easy run, we’d foul them and they’d make their free throws. They weren’t making tough shots, necessarily — i thought they were making easy shots. a nd we just couldn’t handle the ball. We had an illegal screen, and then we turned it over. We just completely fell apart offensively.
“it’s just so different without bri. When you’re in the ball screen, they have to worry about her, and instead we were forced to go one-on-one, and it’s not our game. That is just not our game. We have to go back to the drawing board now and figure out what we’re
going to do late shot clock.” i n overtime, with notre d ame’s inside options limited, Purdue attacked the i rish weakness early and often. The b oilermakers led 78-76 with three minutes remaining.
b ut the i rish had enough to late on to win. Young tied the score and a llen gave the i rish a lead before m abrey made a steal and banked a jumper to give the i rish a two-score lead with just over a minute remaining.
“That’s a prayer that got answered for us, finally, after we said a lot of prayers on the sideline throughout that game,” mc g raw said of the shot. “We sure were happy it went in.”
“i was just thinking, ‘We really need to score right now, and i can’t turn this over. so i’m going to shoot it,’” mabrey said.
a lthough Perry answered with two free throws, m abrey was fouled with 13 seconds left and responded with two free throws of her own to bring the i rish lead back to four. m abrey, who the i rish have relied on to make late free throws to ice close games against c lemson and s yracuse this season, said her experience in these situations helped her to focus only on making her shot.
“i think being in that position a few times helped me there today,” m abrey said. “b ut i’m really just concentrating on the shot, nothing else. not the score or anything — i’m just trying to put the shot in.”
o gunbowale then added four free throws in the final eight seconds to seal the win, bringing the game to its final score of 88-82.
The i rish will play o hio state in Lexington, Kentucky, on f riday after the b uckeyes defeated Kentucky in their second-round game.
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cruised to a 5-0 victory in g ame 1 before squeezing by in g ame 2, 5-2, to complete the sweep.
The i rish benefited from a few lucky bounces and an offnight for friar freshman goaltender hayden hawkey in g ame 1, but the friars struck first midway through the second period in g ame 2.
i rish freshman forward c am morrison knotted things up on a power play just over two minutes later, and junior defenseman Jordan gross put notre dame ahead just 21 seconds into the third period on a seeing-eye shot from the point. s ophomore blueliner b obby nardella found the back of the net seven minutes later to put the i rish on top 3-1.
a Providence goal midway through the third period brought the friars within one, but sophomore forward d ylan malmquist added a pair of empty-net goals for the misleading final 5-2 margin.
“We knew it was going to be a tough weekend,” nardella said after notre dame’s clinching win over the friars. “They’re a good team; they play really hard all the time.
“ … it’s a really good feeling right now.”
“This group’s really figured it out here in the second half of the season,” Jackson said that night. “ … We had probably the toughest job in the country, as far as playoff round, playing one of the hottest teams in the country.”
s ophomore forward Jack Jenkins staked notre dame to an early lead against umass Lowell (26-10-3, 14-7-1) in b oston on st. Patrick’s day.
but there was no luck to be found the rest of the way for the i rish.
The r iver hawks tied the game 25 seconds after Jenkins’ goal and then took the lead for good just over two minutes later. umass Lowell added two more goals in the second period and another early in the third to kill any chance at a notre dame comeback.
The r iver hawks also more than doubled notre dame in shots, 41-20.
“They certainly create a lot of pressure to make bad decisions,” Jackson said after the loss to umass Lowell. “We were our own worst enemy tonight. We made a lot of turnovers in key areas of the ice and in our coverage in our defensive zone.
“[ it is] familiar territory for us. umass Lowell is a great team and they certainly have our number.”
The numbers back Jackson’s claim: umass Lowell has compiled a 9-2-2 mark against the i rish since the beginning of notre dame’s tenure in hockey e ast. umass Lowell also went on to win the hockey e ast championship, defeating b oston c ollege in the final, 4-3. i f notre dame fans were hoping it would be a while before the i rish ran into the r iver hawks again though, they might want to jump on the c ornell bandwagon in the ncaa tournament’s northeast regional: should the i rish get by the g ophers (23-11-3, 14-5-1 big Ten) on s aturday, they would meet the winner of the game between the no. 3 seed big red and umass Lowell, the region’s no. 2 seed, for a trip to the frozen four.
The puck drops for notre dame and m innesota on s aturday at 3:30 p.m. in manchester, new hampshire.
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they shot just 3-of-12 from the field. o ver the game’s last 5:19? They failed to score a single point, going 0-for-7 from the floor and turning the ball over three times, including two
shot-clock violations.
i rish head coach muffet mc graw said the team “completely fell apart offensively” without Turner in the game, citing the forward’s importance to their offense. Without her, the i rish couldn’t use the ball screen effectively, and they were forced to generate
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their offense by asking senior guard Lindsay a llen or sophomore guard a rike ogunbowale to beat their defenders one-onone. a nd they simply couldn’t do it.
The i rish clearly missed Turner on the defensive end as well, as the ninth-seeded boilermakers (23-13, 10-6 big Ten) had no problem driving to the basket, drawing fouls and scoring inside. boilermakers senior guard a shley morrissette had 21 of her 23 points in the second half and overtime, and i rish sophomore guard marina mabrey — tasked with guarding her — said she struggled to do so without Turner behind her to alter potential shots. notre dame’s other forwards struggled too, as junior Kathryn Westbeld fouled out in the fourth quarter while senior Kristina nelson couldn’t play much defense while trying to avoid picking up her fifth foul in the fourth quarter and overtime.
s o with Turner set for an mri on monday, the i rish need to start thinking about what they’ll do without her. because their current plan when she isn’t available doesn’t look good — without a miraculous turnaround bank shot by mabrey, which mc graw called a “prayer” after the game, the
i rish might not even be getting ready to play ohio state in Lexington, Kentucky, on friday.
What are their options?
i rish freshman forward e rin boley defends the paint against boilermakers sophomore forward dominique mcbryde during notre dame’s 88-82 overtime win over Purdue on sunday at Purcell Pavilion.
o ffensively, perhaps mc graw should have played freshman forward e rin boley more down the stretch. With Turner out and her other two forwards in foul trouble, boley saw just 32 seconds of action in the second half. a nd this was despite the fact that she keyed the second quarter that gave the i rish the 14-point cushion they needed every bit of, as she scored seven points and grabbed three rebounds in the period. Whereas the i rish had a plus/minus of -13 with Westbeld on the court in her 20 minutes and just a positive four in nelson’s 15 minutes, the i rish were +15 in boley’s six minutes. That’s a change mc graw at least needs to consider if Turner cannot suit up friday.
o ne change mc graw did make in the overtime period — that she will need to continue to rely on — is more off-ball
movement. Without Turner, the pick-and-roll wasn’t there, and a llen and ogunbowale struggled to generate offense. but posting up ogunbowale or setting off-ball screens to get mabrey open for catch-andshoot opportunities worked a lot more in the overtime period. a llen is a great passer, so the i rish just need to give her different passing options when Turner isn’t in the lineup. s o yes, the i rish did “survive and advance,” as is the mantra for many teams this time of the year. but there’s a lot to be concerned with, especially if Turner is unable to play against a top-10 ohio state squad friday. because the i rish lost last year in the sweet 16 with her, and it’s hard to believe they will win without her this year based on sunday’s performance.
s o, if notre dame wants to have avoid a repeat of last season, it will need to go back to the drawing board before friday. a nd it better hope that mc graw is able to come up with a game plan better than the one currently in place.
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