Print Edition of The Observer for Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Faculty host language week

Professors collaborate to create inaugural Romance Languages Week

By NATALIE WEBER News Writer

o n Sunday, the department of romance languages and literatures kicked off its inaugural romance l anguages i nternational Week with JeoparN d y, dance lessons and desserts from around the world. t he week will sponsor a number of language events to help students get a taste of other cultures from around the world.

l ast year, the italian department hosted an italian concert for students. t he romance l anguages i nternational Week was born from this idea, italian professor l esley m arcantonio said.

“a lessia blad and i were sitting in her office talking about the next concert and she just

Novelist to explore ethics

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indian novelist amitav ghosh will deliver the 23rd annual hesburgh lecture in Ethics and public policy, the university announced in a press release monday.

the hesburgh lecture, which the Kroc institute for international peace Studies established in honor

of university president Emeritus Fr. theodore hesburgh, is devoted to examining “an issue related to ethics and public policy in the context of peace and justice,” according to the press release.

ghosh — who has received the arthur C. Clarke award, the Crossword book prize and a man booker prize shortlisting — will explore the topic of climate

change and address the current discussion of the topic, which “has skewed the discourse in certain directions with predominantly economic characterizations of problems and technological solutions,” the press release said.

“the Kroc institute is delighted to partner with the department

Students, alumni named yenching Scholars

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three Notre dame students and alumni have been named yenching Scholars and will be given the opportunity to pursue master’s degrees at yenching academy of peking university in beijing, China, according to a university press release.

the three students receiving the scholarship are teresa Kennedy, class of 2016, an anthropology

and peace studies major from Wilbraham, massachusetts; senior Jenny Ng, a political science major from Sai Kung, hong Kong; and dominic romeo, class of 2014, a political science and Chinese major from turlock, California, according to the release.

“i hope that this program will allow me to gain a more nuanced understanding of Chinese domestic politics, as well as my current area of study — China-latin america

relations,” Ng said in the release. “more importantly however, i’m most excited for the opportunity to build China connections for Education bridge — an education project in South Sudan that i have been working on with Notre dame classmates and professors.” the current group of yenching Scholars comprises of 125 students attending 80 universities from 40 countries, according to the release.

Former student dies

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Former university undergraduate student Edward lim died Friday at his home in Cincinnati, according to an email sent to all students monday night.

although he was not enrolled at the university during the 20162017 academic year, lim was a program of liberal studies major living in morrissey hall during his freshman and sophomore years at the university, and he sang in the Notre dame Chorale, according to the email.

“as always, the university Counseling Center and Campus ministry are available to offer their support to students,” Vice president for Student affairs Erin

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SMC president promotes sustainability

By SYDNEY DOYLE News Writer

Saint mary’s p resident Jan Cervelli spoke monday about the importance and necessity of sustainability in the world today.

Cervelli spoke on pope Francis’s encyclical l audato si’ and said the pope did a great job explaining the complexity of environmental issues.

“i think Francis hits on the head that many of the problems we see today around sustainability are not simple, they are multi-dimensional,” Cervelli said.

Cervelli said the issue of environmental conservation is much more than just the environment and that it affects so many other aspects of our lives.

“t he first part about environmental, economic and social ecology is how they’re all interconnected. We can’t look at them separately,” Cervelli said.

Cervelli said colleges like Saint mary’s can take steps towards dealing with sustainability issues by thinking of academics as integrated learning spaces and looking at the issues as issues of social justice.

“i have some hopes and dreams for the college and for all of you, and to think about academic programs that take this approach solving problems,” Cervelli said. “it’s not just the environment, it’s dealing with the social justice dimensions as well that we’re so passionate about at Saint

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Tuesday

“How to Renew Natural Theology”

McKenna Hall

5:15 p.m.

Seeing God through nature.

Keynote Speaker Amy Ziering

DeBartolo Hall

8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Director of “The Hunting Ground.”

Wednesday

Wham! Bam! Poetry Slam!

Snite Museum

5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Student poetry competition.

“Re-creation and the Exodus” Eck Visitors Center

7 p.m.

A journey through Exodus and Lent.

Thursday

How to Date (And Not Just Hook Up)

LaFortune Ballroom 7:30 p.m.

Real relationships on a college campus.

MegaWatt Madness Awareness Bonfire Holy Cross Hill

8 p.m. - 10 p.m. S’mores, music and energy conservation.

Friday

Voci Italiane: Singing the History of Italy

DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

7 p.m.

Live Italian concert.

Christ’s Passion DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Plays depicting creation to Doomsday.

Saturday

“Going for Gold” Stepan Center

4 p.m. - 7 p.m. Olympics-themed fundraiser for cancer research.

BCAC Fashion Show Washington Hall 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Celebrating the diversity of black culture.

‘human Library’ shares community’s stories

By MARIE FAZIO news Writer

With the intentions of fostering community and conversation, s tudent Union

b oard ( s U b ) and Welsh Family h all hosted the third annual h uman Library, where attendees were given the opportunity to loan human “books” and learn from the stories of faculty, staff, and students.

Junior Patrick Tingleff was a head organizer of the event. Tingleff said he hoped to mimic the spirit of the viral h umans of n ew York blog in that the human books would share stories and inspire an atmosphere of communication and understanding.

“ i t’s kind of to teach people that everyone has a story and every story is unique and that we should value the stories of others,” he said.

“ i n the h uman Library, each person functions as a book. a s you talk with them, you learn their story as reading a book works.”

The human books were selected by a committee of eight people headed by Tingleff. They chose people from the community who they thought would be interesting based on their life experiences.

The library was scattered around LaFortune s tudent c enter with a human book at each table. v isitors enjoyed tea and donuts while stopping around the tables and chatted with each person, hearing their stories.

s enior Louis b ertolotti shared the story of how he ended up at n otre d ame. a fter he was placed on the waitlist, b ertolotti said he visited campus, decided that he had fallen in love with

n otre d ame, and was determined to get in.

“ m y friend, who was a sophomore at the time, walked me around campus and together we put together a cartoon book that made me ‘ n otre d ame Guy.’ i fed the squirrels, i ran around the lakes, i prayed at the grotto and met Fr. h esburgh,” b ertolotti said.

h e sent the book to admissions along with a letter and was accepted into the Gateway program at h oly c ross, eventually transferring to n otre d ame as a sophomore, b ertolotti said.

“ i couldn’t be happier,” he said.

a t another table, junior William d ean m erriweather iii shared the speech he gave unofficially at Junior Parents Weekend (JPW) in February, in which he thanked his mother for making it possible for him to attend college as a first generation student, as well as the University.

“ m y courageous mother willed that i be here, standing before you today as a student of n otre d ame, the greatest place on e arth, second to only d isneyland or d isneyworld. i don’t know, i ’ve never been able to afford to go to either of those places,” m erriweather said.

m erriweather recounted bringing to the University’s attention the struggles of families who may not have been able to afford to attend JPW, but expressed confidence that n otre d ame would do everything in its power to resolve this issue.

i n one moment during the speech, he shared an anecdote of the purchase of his class ring. When the total cost of the ring came out to over a thousand dollars, he

said his mother informed him that she had been putting aside a portion of her paycheck since he was little for an occasion such as a class ring.

“ i t was at this moment, and many others before it and i ’m sure many after, to explicitly see the love that my mother has for me and my younger sister,” m erriweather said.

m erriweather said that in hindsight he would give that speech again, but that he would make more of an effort to ensure that the people in charge of JPW had known what was happening.

a t another table, senior Jack r eidy, told the story of the car accident he was in almost exactly year ago, and his journey to recovery. ( e ditor’s note: r eidy is a s cene writer for The o bserver.)

o n the way home from a meal with his girlfriend and her dad, their car lost control on some black ice, skidded into oncoming traffic and was hit by two cars, said r eidy.

r eidy had seven surgeries, was in ic U for two weeks and a rehab facility for three weeks, before returning home, missing the last few weeks of his junior year, r eidy said.

“Things improved every day pretty gradually, which kept me sane, that i had small steps back to normalcy…. it was an interesting summer because my only responsibilities were finishing up schoolwork from the previous semester which took me a really long time to do … and going to physical therapy and exercises and starting to walk again,” r eidy said.

h e first walked again in

July at a physical therapy center while wearing a Flash superhero t-shirt to commemorate the occasion because he “has a healthy sense of irony.” h e accomplished his goal of coming back into senior year as if nothing had happened, not using his wheelchair, and eventually stopped using a cane in the Fall semester, r eidy said.

“This past weekend was the one year anniversary. i walked the 10k symbolically, which was big for me because i had been training for the h oly h alf last year, and i got a full time job offer on Thursday,” r eidy said.“ s o

i ’m going to graduate on time, start a full time job in June and i have one more surgery left.”

r eidy, who also performs stand up comedy, says that he has turned some of his experiences with the accident into material.

s ophomore computer science major Josefa o sario spoke about her life with e ctrodactyly, a condition that causes missing fingers and toes. s he underwent around 15 surgeries before the age of six to reconstruct her fingers for functionality and gain the ability to write and hold things. a s she grew up, it became painful to walk and in ninth grade she underwent four more surgeries on her feet, o sario said. h er parents, new to the country, had very little experience both with the school and medical system which made it difficult at times, o sario said.

“ i t’s a lot to undergo, but it’s definitely not something that has made my life worse.

i t’s definitely contributed to who i am now, which i ’m thankful for … it helped me

grow and i don’t know what i ’d be like if i didn’t undergo that,” o sario said.

Living with a disability has enhanced his understanding towards others, o sario said.

“You see people who have things that you don’t know about and they might have a long story of how they got to where they are today,” he said. “ i find it really interesting that someone can go through so much.”

a fter relying on the support of her family throughout her life, o sario was drawn to n otre d ame because of the familial aspect of campus.

e ctrodactyly can be inherited due to genetics, but through her parents’ genetic testing, o sario discovered that it was just inherited by chance. When applying to n otre d ame, she thought that the odds of admittance to the University may not be so low after all.

“The fact that i was born with this and there was a 0.01 percent chance of me getting it without the genetics in our past ... The chance that that happened, i thought that i might as well apply,” o sario said.

Freshman Zuramy vazquaz attended the event as a way to meet people and learn more about the n otre d ame community.

“ i t was nice to hear people’s stories and noticing that you can relate to them and meet other people with similar interests,” vasquez said.

a fourth installment h uman Library is set to take place on a pril 12th in conjunction with a ntostal.

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saint mary’s club raises money for orphans

By MARTHA REILLY saint mary’s editor

o ver 6,000 miles separate south bend from beijing, china, but members of saint mary’s china care club — which donates money to medically fragile chinese orphans — prove they can go the distance to raise awareness about an underrepresented global cause.

sophomore Grace haase, founder and president of china care club, said all funds raised from events go toward onesky, a foundation that sponsors an orphanage in beijing and aims to enhance children’s quality of life.

“The money we send to onesky provides caretakers for the children because they’re very understaffed,” haase said. “Another thing it does is fund surgeries for clubfoot and cleft palate, which are deformities that can be fixed with a simple

surgery, which really heightens a child’s chance of getting adopted.”

According to haase, joining this club can expand members’ worldviews while helping them gain new perspectives and avenues of understanding.

“It’s a great opportunity to learn about china in and of itself,” haase said. “having service oriented causes ... sort of teaches [students] that there’s more to life than the bubble they grew up in.”

Gabby Kooi, junior club member, said she was adopted from china and feels compelled to give back to children who are not as fortunate.

“There are other girls who are not so lucky and who have severe medical issues that are not treated properly,” Kooi said. “There are some cases of malnourishment and abuse depending on where they are.”

According to Kooi, a high

to allow students to explore French culture.

said ‘What if we made it the final event of an entire week including the other languages?’” marcantonio said.

senior Paul rudnicki, who is helping to organize the Italian concert this Friday, said he hopes to share Italy’s culture with other students.

“We’re really looking to share Italian with everyone,” he said.

The department of romance Languages and Literatures also organized a photo contest, showcasing students’ and faculty members’ pictures from around the world, and will be displaying the photos in o’shaughnessy hall until Thursday, said marcio bahia, associate professional specialist in Portuguese and brazilian studies.

“The basic idea was, we have all of these people, all this wonderful staff, faculty and students who travel all over the world, especially to the countries of romance languages — spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian — and it would be nice to view the world, to see the world, through their eyes, through their experiences, through their photographic experiences,” he said.

As part of the week’s festivities, the department will also be screening films in each of the four romance languages, said spanish professor, Tatiana botero.

“We have a documentary— it’s a world screening happening on the campus of notre dame of the documentary ‘soy Andina II’” she said. “The director and the main character are coming for the world premiere. so it’s the first time it’s going to be shown worldwide.”

blad said the French department will be hosting a Festnoz celebration this Friday

percentage of orphans in china are female, which should motivate saint mary’s students to fulfill the college’s mission and help other women.

“It’s the idea of women empowering one another,” Kooi said. “saint mary’s key goal is to raise an independent woman to have values. What the onesky organization does is try to bring equal rights to those girls who don’t have the ability to get them.”

Kooi said china care club offers her the opportunity to bond with other students through organized events — such as teaching members hip hop dance and listening to Korean pop music — but her membership also reminds her of her roots.

“To me, it gives me another connection to where I’m from,” she said. “even though I’m not there, I’m trying to give them a way out. There’s an organization out there that wants to

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“[It] is a recreation of a traditional French event or celebration, so the French club with the French faculty are organizing this event for students of French and other students of [the] course. It’s open to everybody,” she said.

Italian professor Patrick v ivirito said he is organizing a soccer tournament between students from the four different language departments as part of romance Languages week.

“saturday afternoon, we’ve invited students and in all the four languages to represent their countries and their languages in an international soccer tournament,” he said. “The refs are a couple of Italian graduate students, so it’s truly an international type of event.”

The department also created a shirt with the words “speak like a champion today” in the four different romance languages, to celebrate the week, sandra Teixeira, professor of Portuguese and brazilian studies, said.

“The faculty was the one that worked [on it] the most,” she said. “We hand selected days to launch the shirt where all the romance language faculty wore it.”

botero said the departments within the department of romance languages and literatures were able to collaborate and plan the week.

“It’s not a department where like ‘oh, the French are over there and the Italians are over there and the spanish are over there and the Portuguese,’” she said. “no, we’re a very tight cohort that regularly meets together and we plan events together and this huge endeavor which is the International Week came out of that.”

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help.”

According to sophomore member r iley harber, belonging to china care club allows students to fight for a cause without engaging in intense activity.

“If it’s more accessible, people will be more willing to do it, so I think this a really great way to ... make a change in a way that people will be able to do at whatever level of commitment they can,” harber said. “This is a really good way to get involved with something that doesn’t get a lot of awareness but is still a really important cause and is also a lot of fun.”

china care club strengthens the college’s comprehensive mission to instill values of service and selfless love in its students.

“As a catholic women’s college, we’re very focused as an institution on helping other people,” harber said. “If you’re

a better person, you can go out and be good at helping other people.”

According to harber, several friendships have evolved among members of china care club, as it unites like-minded individuals.

“I think this is a cause that people really want to get behind,” she said. “[The club] builds community not only in that we’re reaching out and helping people who need it, but also that we’re connecting belles.”

Kooi said witnessing the dedication of her peers to such a worthy cause reminds her how powerful women are.

“saint mary’s women say ‘even though we’re women, we’re not going to be held back,’” Kooi said. “We’re going to help others.”

Contact Martha Reilly at mreilly01@saintmarys.edu

m ary’s.”

c ervelli said that progress can only happen once people share information and communicate with each other, no matter the field.

“ m any of our problems today follow the fragmentation of knowledge and the isolation of bits of information [that] can actually become a form of ignorance,” c ervelli said. “ s o many of you are studying in very fine departments with very fine faculty; one of our goals is to work across departments, and be able to talk from science over to humanities.”

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one of her personal heroes, landscape architect Frederick Law o lmsted. o lmsted designed c entral Park in n ew York c ity and c ervelli said he put parks in cities because it made the cities more livable.

“ h e had a strong belief, as does Pope Francis, in the healing power of nature. It’s the unconscious reflecting, it’s that ability to escape,” she said. “ h e believed it’s one of the more important responsibilities of the government to provide these spaces.”

c ervelli said that o lmsted and Pope Francis are similar in their beliefs for the importance of the common good.

“Francis talks a lot about human health and wellness and how it comes out of

delighted to partner with the d epartment of e nglish and the Liu Institute in welcoming Amitav Ghosh to deliver this important annual lecture,” r uth Abbey, interim director of the

the environment, but what comes out of it are human interactions, with each other, socially,” c ervelli said. “Frederick Law o lmsted believed back in 1852 that nature has a direct impact on healing of humans.”

c ervelli said Americans should be very proud that the first idea of a national park was born in the u nited s tates.

“That spawned the conservation movement,” c ervelli said. “And I’m afraid often times it’s not even taught in schools. The ideas of land conservation, and perpetuity for everyone and to protect our environment [and] essentially ourselves.”

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Kroc Institute, said in the release.

Ghosh will deliver his lecture at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Jordan Auditorium of the m endoza c ollege of b usiness.

b asilica of the s acred h eart, the email said. Fr. Pete m c c ormick and Fr. s ean m cGraw will lead the mass and music will be provided by the c horale and the c elebration c hoir. l im

A memorial mass for Lim is scheduled for Wednesday evening at 9 p.m. in the

h offmann h arding said in the email. “Thank you for keeping e dward, his family and all who loved him in your prayers as we mourn his loss within the n otre d ame community.”

The wings of hope

summer job search

As the end of the semester approaches, I find myself dreading the annual summer job search. All my summer jobs have ranged from either terrible or leaving after three hours because someone let loose a tarantula.

I have worked at three fast food restaurants, an incompetent pet store and at an office, cleaning cubicles. o ne summer, I worked at the public library on the children’s floor and dreaded it so much I often hid in the children’s pantomime nonfiction section — someplace the kids never went. m ost days I would simply have to help knock-kneed preteens find the h arry Potter books, but other days I would have to dodge thrown Lego blocks or calm down a child throwing a tantrum because his math tutor dared to teach him multiplication. After I had successfully dodged a thrown notebook, his mother put her foot down and said she was taking away his iPad privileges for a month.

I suppose my worst job was being a summer camp counselor. The camp was rooted in academia and was almost like a summer school for elementary school kids. I had to teach the them all about nature and then some, much to the dismay of every child whose parents forced them to be there. s ome days they all looked so sad I just let them play wiffle ball all day. I was a cool camp counselor.

b esides the unflattering khaki capris I was forced to wear, the job was not so bad. s ure, sometimes when I thought one of the little kids was reaching to hold my hand they were just wiping boogers in my shirt, but other times I had a lot of fun. I taught the kids about different types of flowers and about the importance of conservation. o nce, we all found a really neat bug.

o f course, the job was not always harmlessly fun. The camp was at an arboretum, a huge expanse of wilderness. n aturally, camper safety was of the utmost importance, which is why full troops mobilized when, in mid-July, a little girl got lost in the woods. I was so focused on finding this little girl that I persistently traveled deep into the unmapped area of the arboretum. For two hours, I traipsed every inch of the woods but still did not find the missing girl.

It was later revealed to me that the little girl was found within twenty minutes of being lost, and the rest of the two hours was spent searching for me, who had also become lost. I myself had to be rescued, by my boss nonetheless, and not by an attractive forest ranger.

I guess should start my summer job search soon. I’m not sure what job I will find this summer, but I do know it will be interesting. It always is.

Contact Gina Twardosz at gtwardosz01@saintmarys.edu

The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

Ray Ramirez The crooked Path

This is a trying time of year even for the most sanguine among us: it’s been a long winter, a political transition brings uncertainty and even sports seem to make more headlines for off-field offenses than on-field triumphs. Perhaps as a result of that darned liberal arts education of mine, at this time I find myself thinking about things with feathers and e mily d ickinson.

b orn in Amherst, m assachusetts, in 1830, d ickinson lived there all her life. h er grandfather founded Amherst c ollege, and her father served as the college treasurer. h er mother was unobtrusive and fragile. After attending m ount h olyoke Female s eminary, d ickinson lived with her parents and began writing poetry in earnest, completing more than 1,800 poems. m any of her poems dealt with tragedies and death, and our response to such traumas. In discussing her early work, one historian noted: “ d ickinson experienced an emotional crisis of an undetermined nature in the early 1860s.” In addition to the sensitive poet, the nation at large experienced an easily determined emotional, as well as existential, crisis in 1861.

The year started ominously. In February the c onfederate s tates of America coalesced with Jefferson d avis, a former U. s . Army officer, as its president. The next month Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as President of the United s tates of America. In April, c onfederate forces opened fire on Fort s umter in c harleston, s outh c arolina. The balance of the year saw a steady parade of states secede from the Union, eventually building an eleven state c onfederacy with a population of 9 million persons, including almost 4 million slaves. Prospects for the Union looked grim as it suffered crushing defeat at b ull r un, just 25 miles from Washington, d c ., and ended the year in a diplomatic tangle over the capture of a c onfederate vessel bound for e ngland. e ven the normally stoic U. s . President seemed flustered as he called for “ o ne war at a time.”

It was against this backdrop of fear and uncertainty, that d ickinson wrote an inspirational plea for the nurturing of hope:

“ h ope is the thing with feathers/ That perches in the soul,/ And sings the tune without the words,/ And never stops at all,/ And sweetest in the gale is heard;/ And sore must be the storm/ That could abash the little bird/ That kept so many warm./ I’ve heard it in the chillest land,/ And on the strangest sea;/ Yet, never, in extremity,/ It asked a crumb of me.”

These “things with feathers,” these birds, appear to be fragile and subject to being dashed by storms. Yet, they survive, and even more remarkably, sing their birdsongs. h earing the songs of birds after the storm, and even during it, brings us warmth and comfort. In d ickinson’s view, that is the nature of hope. It is an ineffable sensation of trust in the future, and an

inclination to listen for the faintest notes of confidence even during the roar of discord.

After the c ivil War ended, and the nation moved on to the heavy work of rebuilding a broken country, d ickinson continued to write. h er work was largely unshared during her lifetime and was not collected and published until after her death in 1886. h ope was, for d ickinson, a private source of comfort that sang to the poet as a caged bird, unshared and only to be appreciated at a later time.

Gerard m anley h opkins, an e nglish poet and Jesuit priest, was a contemporary of d ickinson who also invoked a feathered protagonist in his most famous sonnet, “The Windhover.” The poem, dedicated “to c hrist our Lord” casts a kestrel, the “windhover,” as a symbol for c hrist. We catch the bird in mid-flight, hovering between heaven and earth with its wings outstretched:

“I caught this morning morning’s minion, king/ dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding/ o f the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding/ h igh there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing/ In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,/ As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding/ r ebuffed the big wind. m y heart in hiding/ s tirred for a bird, – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!/ b rute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here/ b uckle! A nd the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion/ Times told lovelier, more dangerous, o my chevalier!/ n o wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion/ s hine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.”

Generations of e nglish majors have been “stirred for a bird” in parsing the many symbols and wordy pleasures in this poem, but for now it is enough to feel the stirring caused by the mastery of flight and dramatic hunting techniques of the raptor. It ends with a gold-vermillion gash — and since we know it was dedicated to c hrist — the victim, the sacrifice, is the windhover itself.

The poem stirs us as much as d ickinson’s ode to hope, but it now moves the focus to a specific “thing with feathers” in the image of c hrist, who brings comfort to a “heart in hiding.” h e “rebuffed the big wind” as did d ickinson’s birds facing the storm, but in addition invites us to exalt in his example, taking strength from his strength, and “the fire that breaks from” him. s o keep the faith, and keep hope hovering in your heart. The path may be crooked and largely hidden from sight, but look to each other for comfort. In the words of the Irish saying: “giorraionn beirt bother” — two shorten the road.

Ray Ramirez is an attorney practicing, yet never perfecting, law in Texas while waiting patiently for a MacArthur Genius Grant. You may contact him at patrayram@sbcglobal.net

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

Stephen Raab Let’s Talk smart

(Don’t) keep truckin’

At time of writing, about 3.5 million men and women work as professional truck drivers in the United s tates. c ombined, they move more than 10 billion tons of freight each year, with a combined estimated value of $671 billion. Whether you call it a big rig, a semi, a tractor trailer, or an eighteen-wheeler, the truck is a symbol of commerce and prosperity.

d espite the critical work they do every day, the clock is ticking for the American trucker. The automobile is getting automated; children born today may come to regard a driver’s license as a rarity, much like landlines in modern homes. In place of the truckers, a new generation of selfdriving trucks is on the horizon. The economic incentive to developing this technology is obvious. r obots don’t need to eat or sleep; the extra uptime for these vehicles will by itself make the switch worth it for freight companies. s iliconbased truckers won’t get distracted, and can react at literal lightspeed. The cab of a self-driving car doesn’t even need air conditioning.

s ome might say the technology isn’t there yet. After all, piloting a luxury car around s an Francisco (which, according to all my c alifornian friends, has no weather) is hardly comparable to hauling an eighteen-wheeler up a c olorado

r ockie in blizzard conditions. We have to remember though, that invention in general and software in particular has a way of sneaking up on the public. The GP s wasn’t released for civilian use until 1996. Look at all the applications it’s been put to since — everything from guiding road trips to catching Pokemon. Who knows where the technology will be in twenty years, or even ten?

The question then turns towards policy. While it may be good for trucking companies to ditch the human element, the aforementioned c onnecticut’s worth of truckers will be out of work. m any will face the prospect of looking for work in a market that no longer values the skills they have so painstakingly developed. It’s easy to sympathize with these individuals — no one likes being condemned to economic irrelevance. The problem happens when their stories are co-opted by anti-technology activists as an excuse to suppress innovation.

When put in broader context, though, things look a bit rosier for the trucker. Working-class votes famously swung n ovember’s election, and both parties are scrambling to secure this constituency for the next round. Prominent r epublicans have expressed the desire to remake the G o P as a “worker’s party,” and d emocrats are looking to capitalize on their historical strength with labor. c ombined with the legendary influence of the Teamsters Union, we can expect to see strong agitation against self-driving long-haul

trucks in the future.

The public’s limited ability to quantify risk means that the few collisions involving self-driving cars (even when the auto-auto is not at fault) get much more media play than the 90 people who die every day in human-driven car crashes. The associated fear of unfamiliar technology will add additional pressure on lawmakers to regulate self-driving trucks. Add in the electoral power of “economically anxious” truckers, and we could see the Luddites win this round. That’s a disturbing precedent — how many other jobs are slated for automation this century? Are we to turn away from these innovations to placate some blue-collar need for validation?

If the American freight sector is to stay economically relevant, it must embrace automation. It sounds nice to insulate millions of hard-working Americans in a “safe space” that will protect them from the inexorable march of progress. b ut longterm, top-down intervention will do nothing but hamper the progress of our economy, and create another bloc of employees dependent on de facto handouts.

Stephen Raab, an MSM Candidate at the Mendoza College of Business, graduated Notre Dame with a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering in 2016. He enjoys matching wits with all comers at sraab@nd.edu

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

ending modern slavery: tackling trafficking in American supply chains

s lavery isn’t dead. In fact, 23 slaves work for me: seven to mine the minerals used in my phone, 11 to pick the cotton for my shirts and five to harvest the beans in my morning cup of coffee. o f course, there is no way to know how many slaves are forced to work for my comfort. They’re hidden in multi-tiered and complex global supply chains, but the 2016 Global s lavery Index estimates that 45.8 million people are enslaved worldwide.

d espite the United n ation’s Universal d eclaration of h uman r ights in 1948, which states “ n o one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms,” slave labor taints the supply chains of global industries. In 2016, the U. s d epartment of Labor compiled a list of 136 commonplace goods — scarves, chocolate, soccer balls — made by trafficked laborers.

For the most part, American companies are unaware of how their supply chains include slaves. b ecause of the United s tates’ strict penalties for companies using slave labor, trafficked individuals are absent from a company’s immediate operations. s laves, however, exist at the base of these chains — mining or harvesting input goods. Through a process of intermediaries, their labor ends up in the factories of American companies. Fortune magazine identifies h ershey’s Kit-Kat

chocolate as particularly susceptible to using products harvested by child laborers.

It’s easy to for companies to turn a blind eye to the origins of their raw materials; cheaper materials equate to better profits. It’s also easy for everyday Americans to ignore this labor epidemic when the pay less at the cash register. b ut the question must be asked: Why should we support products imported to the U. s . made under labor conditions that we systematically condemn?

There is no justification for human trafficking, and a coalition of n otre d ame, s t. m ary’s and h oly c ross students and faculty representing c atholic r elief s ervices, the humanitarian arm of the U. s c onference of c atholic b ishops, believes there is a solution.

The b usiness s upply c hain Transparency on Trafficking and h uman s lavery Act is a bill that will soon be reintroduced into c ongress. The legislation mandates companies investigate their supply chains for forced labor and disclose their findings on their websites.

b ased on a similar c alifornia law, the bill is a free-market solution. It doesn’t impose specific penalties for companies that find human trafficking in their supply chain; instead, it increases public access to this information and empowers consumers to decide what companies to buy from. It also avoids a regulatory burden for

American businesses, as it only requires compliance from companies with over $100 million in sales.

To be successful, this legislation requires bipartisan support from as many c ongressmen, legislators like congresswoman Jackie Walorski, as possible. r epresentative Walorski of Indiana’s second c ongressional d istrict has been a staunch advocate of anti-trafficking legislation. m y team and I commend her recent support for a package of anti-trafficking legislation that passed the h ouse. We now ask her to continue the fight by working towards the passage of the b usiness s upply c hain Transparency on Trafficking and h uman s lavery Act.

Your assistance is also vital to this process. b y signing this petition, we stand united as students and faculty guided by c ongregation of h oly c ross’ mission, members of Indiana’s 2nd c ongressional d istrict and global citizens in solidarity with 45.8 million victims of modern slavery. The petition will be used in meetings with r ep. Walorski and her staff that her constituency is calling her to act for the greater good of us, businesses and the slaves that work for you.

Happy Birthday: Try to grasp what those around you are going through before you jump to conclusions or make alterations that may not be good for everyone. unity, integrity and keeping the peace will be the road to victory, not boldly pushing forward at the expense of others or the environment. make wise choices and you will come out on top. your numbers are 2, 13, 23, 29, 32, 36, 47.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Join forces and work alongside people who share your concerns. Arguing or letting someone play mind games with you will be a waste of time. live in the moment and try to see all sides of every situation you face.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): give and receive. The way you deal with problems and partnerships will determine what will happen next. don’t fear doing things differently. A unique approach to friendship will help bypass any differences you have. live, love and laugh.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): look for opportunities, but make choices based on morals and ethics, not ulterior motives. being true to your beliefs and following a plan will encourage greater rewards and also help promote personal stability and security.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): do something different, innovative and inspiring with your time, and you will discover talents you didn’t realize you possessed. be cautious about lending a helping hand. someone is likely to take advantage of you. offer suggestions instead of taking on others’ responsibilities.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Take your time and think matters through. The changes you make must be done for the right reasons and executed at the most opportune time. Transparency will work in your favor, so don’t raise suspicion by being secretive or withdrawn.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): make your point and follow through by taking action. don’t be afraid to be different or to stand up for your beliefs. Partnerships will grow along with the ability to turn your dream into a reality. A promise can be made.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): ease into whatever you decide to take on this year. It’s important to be well informed before you make a move or a statement that will lead to changes that have consequences. be true to yourself, but mindful toward others.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): live in the moment and experience what life has to offer. explore different lifestyles and health regimens that help ease your stress. engage in heartfelt conversations that will shed light on personal situations that puzzle you. romance is encouraged.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): don’t let infatuation lead to loss. Ask questions and scrutinize any proposition you are offered before being enticed into something that may be risky. change can be good, but only if it brings beneficial results. don’t sell yourself short.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): don’t act impulsively because of the choices others make. Take your time, relax and consider the most practical ways to get what you want. you can outsmart anyone you encounter if you gather facts and follow your instincts. romance is highlighted.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Take precautions when dealing with people from your past. observe what motives may be lurking behind a friendly gesture or an offer that sounds too good to be true. call in a favor if it will protect against being taken for granted.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): give your all and you will get back twice what you put in. share your feelings and bring back plans that have worked well for you in the past. your insight and desire to make the world a better place will inspire those you encounter.

Birthday Baby: you are sensitive, courageous and proactive. you are resourceful and original.

nbA teams: don’t overlook mason

Daniel O’Boyle sports Writer

Kansas’s 2013 recruiting class came in with some high expectations.

There was Andrew Wiggins, who was expected to be the top overall draft pick in 2014 before he even played a college game, and subsequently was. Joel e mbiid, who came in as a five-star center and despite frequent injuries, has become one of the top young stars in the nb A after less than 800 minutes on the court. Add in Wayne s elden Jr., a five-star small forward ranked as one of the top-20 players in the country in his class, and you have a dynamic trio.

And by the end of the season, one member of that class even had a rap song written about them. b ut it wasn’t e mbiid, s elden or Wiggins (Wiggins earned a shoutout in the chorus of d rake’s “d raft d ay,” but being namedropped doesn’t make the song about him, not least because Johnny m anziel, soon to begin his brief career with the browns, earns an even more prominent spot in the song’s lyrics). It was the diminutive point guard ranked as the fifth-best member of the class — Frank m ason. he hadn’t shocked the world in his freshman year. m ason started only three games for the Jayhawks, two of them losses, and averaged only 5.5 points and 2.1 assists per game. he scored only four points over the course of the nc AA tournament. Apart from scoring 15 points, eleven from the line, against d uke in the second game of the season, m ason had done little to warrant much attention.

s o when v irginia rapper r ed head, who grew up in the next town over from m ason’s Petersburg, wrote a song about m ason, it seemed a little bizarre. now, m ason has lived up to every boast r edhead makes. Kansas may have been eliminated in the e lite e ight of this year’s nc AA tournament, but m ason has won the naismith award — among other national honors — as the best player in college basketball. not only does that feat surpass his highly-recruited classmates, but it makes him only the second Kansas naismith Award winner, after d anny m anning. What r ed head knew in 2014, and the entire college basketball world knows now, is something that nb A scouts still seem to be blind to,

however. m ason is not the pro prospect that likely top picks Lonzo b all and m arkelle Fultz are, and in a draft with extraordinary depth at the point guard position, m ason looks set to go lower than he would in a normal year.

b ut m ason’s draft stock isn’t just that of a non-lottery pick. he looks almost certain to be the first ever naismith winner drafted outside the top 20, and faces a real possibility of going undrafted. It appears likely that if m ason is selected, it will be late in the second round, behind 50 other players.

Why? It’s hard to say size isn’t the biggest reason.

m ason, listed at 5-11 by Kansas, is certainly not the ideal size for an nb A point guard and doesn’t come close to stacking up physically with the likes of b all and Fultz. b ut in a season where 5-9 Isaiah Thomas, who was picked dead-last in the 2011 nb A d raft, has led b oston c eltics to top the e astern c onference and looks set to finish top-3 in the league in scoring, maybe the emphasis on size is too much.

Will m ason ever be an elite defender in the nb A? no. b ut he’s proven that he can deliver against top competition in college at his size, and it’s hard to see the pros faring so much better at stopping his offensive game that he should fall as low as Thomas did.

m ason shoots over 47 percent from 3-point range and averages over 20 points and five assists per game. he’s simply too good at this level to not have a big part of that translate. And defensively, while he lacks size, his intensity helps significantly in making up for it.

m ason is old, too, at 23. There’s no way his ceiling is on the same level as a teenager with many more years ahead, but the instant nb A success of a college veteran like m alcolm brogdon, a favorite for r ookie of the Year this year, while younger players have struggled, is a reminder that experience can provide a valuable impact right away.

o n the song, “Frank m ason,” r ed head says that, “you don’t want to keep Frank waiting.” The way it looks, most nb A executives will regret keeping Frank waiting on draft night.

Contact Daniel O’Boyle at doboyle@nd.edu

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

Syndergaard shuts down Atlanta on Opening Day

Associated Press

neW YorK — noah syndergaard is off to a blistering start — and that could be a concern for the new York mets.

The hard-throwing ace pitched six sharp innings before leaving with a blister, Asdrubal cabrera singled home the goahead run in the seventh and the mets broke through following a pivotal replay reversal to beat the Atlanta braves 6-0 in their season opener monday.

syndergaard struck out seven without a walk in his first opening day assignment, the only blemish a blister on the top of his right middle finger that ended his outing.

“It was just affecting me on all pitches,” syndergaard said. “I haven’t had it in a long time. I had it when I was going through the minor leagues with the blue Jays, but kind of a rare occurrence.”

syndergaard called it “just a little blister” and insisted he’s not too worried. still, manager Terry collins said the right-hander’s next turn will be pushed back a day to sunday.

“It’s not very big. he had it and it popped during the inning,” collins said. “These guys, that’s a very common thing. They’ll

dry it out the next couple days. he’ll be ready.”

Atlanta starter Julio Teheran throttled the mets as usual, throwing six scoreless innings before a sellout crowd of 44,384 at citi Field. but once he was lifted after 96 pitches, new York took advantage of five walks by a shaky braves bullpen in a sixrun bottom of the seventh that lasted 35 minutes.

curtis Granderson had a sacrifice fly and Lucas duda added a three-run double off ineffective lefty eric o’Flaherty.

The mets stopped a six-game home losing streak against Atlanta — the last-place braves swept their final two series in Queens last year — and improved baseball’s best record on opening day to 36-20.

rene rivera began the seventh with a single against Ian Krol (0-1). one out later, Jose reyes walked and cabrera singled for his third hit. Gold Glove center fielder ender Inciarte made a strong peg home, and Wilmer Flores initially was called out.

but replays showed catcher Tyler Flowers was in poor position when he took the throw behind the plate, allowing Flores to touch the front corner with his foot before getting tagged.

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“Great slide,” duda said. From there, the mets stayed disciplined in the batter’s box and built a comfortable lead.

“Yeah, we kind of have a big momentum shift right there and probably turns the game around,” braves manager brian snitker said.

hansel robles (1-0) worked a perfect inning for the win.

Freddie Freeman had three hits for Atlanta, including a one-out triple in the fourth. syndergaard struck out the other three batters in the inning, and pitched out of trouble against the middle of the lineup again in the sixth.

“That’s the reason why he’s starting opening day,” Freeman said. “he’s one of the best pitchers in the game and he worked his way out of it.”

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With fans still filing in, braves pitcher bartolo colon received a standing ovation during pregame introductions as he waved and tipped his cap to the crowd. big sexy, who turns 44 in may, won 44 games for the mets over the past three seasons. he signed a $12.5 million, one-year contract with Atlanta in november. “bartolo had a huge effect on this team,” collins said.

Towns, m innesota snap Portland’s streak at six

Associated Press

m I nne AP oLI s — KarlAnthony Towns had 34 points and 12 rebounds and the m innesota Timberwolves snapped Portland’s six-game winning streak with a 110109 victory over the Trail b lazers on monday night.

Andrew Wiggins scored 29 points and r icky r ubio had 11 points, 16 assists and seven rebounds for the Timberwolves, who bounced back from an ugly home loss to s acramento that eliminated them from postseason contention on s aturday.

d amian Lillard scored 25 points for Portland, but had a rough shooting night. he made just 7 of 21 shots,

including 3 of 11 3-pointers, and his potential gamewinning pull-up jumper at the buzzer glanced off the rim. The b lazers lead d enver by 1½ games in the race for the final playoff spot in the Western c onference.

c .J. mc c ollum struggled as well, scoring 17 points on 5-for-14 shooting and 0 for 3 on 3s.

Al-Farouq Aminu scored 20 points and m aurice h arkless had 17 points, eight rebounds and a big block of a r ubio drive that gave the b lazers the ball back with 4.9 seconds to play.

Lillard got a clean look, but couldn’t knock it down and Portland missed a golden chance to pad its lead on

d enver in a tense race. It was the second game for Portland without Jusuf nurkic, the big man who galvanized the team after coming over in a trade from d enver at the deadline, to a fractured right leg. b ut they beat lowly Phoenix in their first game without him and went supersmall on monday against the Wolves with Aminu and h arkless seeing some time at center.

The sleek lineup put the b lazers in control with a 34-point second quarter, but the 7-foot Towns had his way in the fourth. he scored 14 points in the period, including a big dunk for a 110-106 lead with 35 seconds to go.

Guillermo c abrera won his singles match in straight sets 6-4, 6-1, and freshman m att Gamble won his match in three sets,7-5, 2-6, 6-4. Those would be the only two singles wins for the i rish, however, as sophomore Grayson b roadus, senior e ddy c ovalschi, senior Josh h agar and sophomore a lex Lebedev lost close matches.

i n the doubles competition, the n o. 2 pair of Gamble/Lebedev won their match 6-2, while the n o. 3 team of junior b rendon Kempin/ b roadus emerged victorious 6-4.

a gainst Georgia Tech on s unday, the singles matches unfolded similar to the n orth c arolina s tate match, with c abrera and Gamble recording the only i rish wins in the singles competition.

s achire said among the positives were the play of two freshman on the team.

“The positives coming out of the weekend were certainly our two freshman, m att Gamble and Guillermo c abrera,” s achire said. “They both won both of their matches over the weekend and both played well over the weekend, and both of them did well while moving up in the lineup. They played in a higher spot in the lineup and still won both of their matches, and that’s tremendous. b oth of those guys have done a good job and improved dramatically and so they continue to be guys we are very proud of for their performances.”

i n doubles play, the n o. 1 pair of h agar/ c ovalschi won their match 6-4, while the n o. 3 pair of Kempin/ b roadus came out on top 6-3, but the i rish once again dropped the match 4-3.

a gainst i UPU i in the second match of the day, the i rish cruised to a 7-0 win. n otre d ame won every match, as junior d rew d awson, sophomore d aniel r ayl, freshman c onor s omers, b roadus, Kempin

and Lebedev recorded singles wins, and the n o. 2 and n o. 3 doubles teams of s omers/ c ovalschi and sophomore n athan Griffin/ d awson both won by a 6-0 score.

s achire was also proud of the play of n otre d ame’s top doubles pair of h agar and c ovalschi, who are ranked 11th in the nation.

“ i t was a really good step in the right direction for Josh and e ddy in doubles, especially yesterday,” he said. “They’ve been highly ranked as a doubles team the entire year, but i don’t think they’ve played the best tennis they can play over the past month or so, and yesterday was a really good and impactful win for them, so i ’m excited for them getting back on the right track and hopefully they can build on that performance this week.”

The i rish next play this coming Friday down in Tallahassee, Florida, in an acc match against Florida s tate.

Contact Michael Ivey at mivey@hcc-nd.edu

i rish record 12th place finish at tournament

Observer Sports Staff

The irish wrapped up the regular season this past weekend, earning a 12th place finish amongst a field of 18 teams, including seven ranked in the top 25, at the Wake Forest bryan national collegiate Tournament in Greensboro, north carolina with a threeround team score of 43-over par.

originally scheduled for Friday, saturday and sunday, heavy rains pushed the start of the tournament back a day. a fter both rounds on saturday,

the irish stood in 13th place with a 607. notre dame shaved 11 strokes off of their score from the first to the second round, led by sophomore emma a lbrecht, whose two-round 143 put her in ninth place, and sophomore maddie rose hamilton, who shot a 148 over two rounds despite being fifth in the lineup. on sunday, the irish wrapped up the tournament with 12-over par 300 to put the team at 907, good enough for 12th place in a field that included thirdranked a labama, tenth-ranked Georgia and hosts no. 12 Wake Forest, among others.

The top three overall finishers for the irish consisted of the sophomore trio of a lbrecht, hamilton and isabella diLisio. a lbrecht, who tied for 11th overall, finished with a three-day total of 216. hamilton finished with a total of 224, which placed her overall 31st. rounding out the top three was diLisio finishing with a score of 233 that tied her for 65th overall.

a fter a one-week hiatus, the irish will return to compete for the acc championship april 13-15 at The reserve Golf club in Pawley’s island, south carolina.

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program started the season 1-8. p itching has been a huge part of it, as n otre d ame’s team era has dropped from 7.85 to 3.24 since the opening string of games. With the starting pitching doing its job, a oki views the offense as the missing piece for the i rish to string together some wins for the team, especially in providing run support.

“We’ve got to get b rad a win,” a oki said. “ i t’s gotta be frustrating for him because he’s pitched so well, and we haven’t done a lot [to support him offensively}. e ach of the last five weekends he’s been really good, so he has to understand that [the offensive performance] isn’t something he can control –the only thing he can control is his performance.”

“o ur starting pitching as a whole has been really good for the last four to five weekends,” a oki said. “That part

has been coming along pretty well, and i continue to think that we play defense at a pretty high level. We had some opportunities [on s unday] to tie and do some things, and we kind of botched them a little bit, but overall i thought we played pretty well this weekend. i f we get three-outof-four on the week the rest of the way, we’re probably in a pretty good place.”

o n deck for n otre d ame is a trip to a nn a rbor, as the i rish face n o. 22 m ichigan on Tuesday night in a non-conference showdown set for 7 p.m. a lthough m ichigan holds the advantage in the all-time series 87-47, n otre d ame won last year’s contest 9-5, with h earne holding the Wolverines to one run over seven innings. The following night, n otre d ame will take on the s outh b end c ubs in a friendly at f our Winds f ield starting at 6 p.m.

Contact Joe Everett at jeveret4@nd.edu

inning.

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c oming off a thrilling 1716 comeback victory over i llinois Tech, s t. m ary’s recorded wins over n orthern o hio and e lmhurst, before falling to n orth c entral and i llinois Wesleyan.

a gainst o hio n orthern, freshman midfielder m ary

s ingler tied the program

record she set against i llinois Tech by scoring seven goals as the b elles (3-5) pulled away in the second half to win 16-10.

s enior midfielder e mily vanneste was the one setting program records against e lmhurst, setting program highs in assists with four and caused turnovers with 7 while helping the team to a 19-4 victory.

a gainst n orth c entral, the b elles looked to earn another late comeback, after a goal from junior c lare Theisen put

s t. m ary’s down by only one with just over a minute left. h owever, despite winning the ball back with more than thirty seconds remaining, the b elles could not score to bring the game to overtime.

a gainst i llinois Wesleyan, the b elles trailed 4-0 after only five minutes and struggled to get back into the game, eventually losing 17-8. s ingler had two goals and an assist.

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s aint m ary’s were swept

by Wheaton and defeated by a ugustana, before recording victories over Knox and b ethel.

a gainst, Wheaton, no b elles singles player won a set, with sophomore m onica d avy’s 6-4, 6-1 and junior m addie m inaudo’s 6-1, 6-4 defeats among the closest singles matches. i n the doubles, the b elles’ pairings also struggled, losing 8-4, 8-1 and 8-4.

a gainst a ugustana, sophomore e lizabeth p reister grabbed a 6-3, 6-3 victory,

but all other results went against the b elles. h owever, s aint m ary’s posted a better showing against Knox, losing a total of only six games between the six singles contests and two games in the three doubles matches, on its way to a comfortable 9-0 victory.

g ood fortunes for the b elles continued against b ethel, as a tiebreak defeat in the singles and an 8-6 doubles defeat were the only losses as the b elles claimed a 7-2 victory.

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Rotation leads ND to series win over NC State

By JOE EVERETT sports Writer

Looking to turn the corner after being swept by Florida s tate last weekend, the n otre d ame baseball team bounced back by taking two of out three from visiting n orth c arolina s tate this weekend at Frank e ck s tadium.

For the Irish (10-16, 4-8 A cc ), starting pitching has kept the team afloat, as the offense has struggled to find its groove, and the strength of the rotation was again on display against the Wolfpack (15-14, 5-7 A cc ). In the opener Friday night, Irish junior right-hander b randon b ielak conceded just one run over 5.2 innings, while junior lefty s ean Guenther twirled the remaining 3.1 innings to seal a 4-1 n otre d ame victory. s aturday, graduate student left-hander m ichael h earne provided a better encore, allowing only one run over seven innings of work. The Irish ended up with a 2-1 win thanks to a walkoff single by junior infielder Jake s hepski in the ninth. s unday, junior right-hander

b rad b ass kept the quality starts coming, as the junior right-hander struck out seven in seven innings, allowing only two runs. h owever, the Irish offense couldn’t break through against n orth c arolina s tate’s m ichael b ienlein, and the Wolfpack broke the game open in the ninth to win 9-2.

Including their 7-4 win over c hicago s tate on Tuesday, n otre d ame ended its week with a winning record (3-1) for just the second time all year. Irish head coach m ik Aoki stressed that his team had a good week, but was upset the Irish didn’t seal the sweep on s unday.

“I thought we played really well all weekend long, with the exception of one inning,” Aoki said. “I was really disappointed with us [in the ninth inning on s unday], and it wasn’t because we gave up runs – I just felt like we didn’t compete at as high of a level as we did this entire week.”

This past weekend’s series marked a 9-8 turnaround for n otre d ame since the

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belles win streak pushed to six

After splitting a series with Wheaton two weekends ago, the belles have rattled off six straight wins, including conference games against olivet and Kalamazoo.

Against Wheaton, after both teams scored runs in the opening inning of the first game, the two squads also added a second in the fifth inning, but there were no other scores through seven, leaving the game tied. In the eighth, however, senior first-baseman c aitlyn magawa hit a two-run single to put s aint mary’s ahead, and three quick outs in the bottom half of the inning won the game for the belles (12-8, 4-0 m IAA).

In the second matchup, Wheaton led 8-5 after three innings, but the runs soon began to slow down as light dimmed. The belles added one run with one out in the seventh, but the game was then ended at 8-6 because of the light, ending the belles’ hopes of a comeback.

Irish fall to Jackets, Wolfpack; beat IUPUI

Following the series split, the b elles went on a tear last week, winning six straight, including the first four games of their m IAA schedule. After beating m anchester twice, the b elles dropped olivet in a double-header on Wednesday by scores of 7-1 and 5-0, respectively. Junior pitcher morgan r aymer threw a complete game in the opener, while also going 3-4 at the plate with a home run and 3 rbI, and then pitched five innings in the second game en-route to the win.

s aint mary’s continued their hot streak with two shutouts of Kalamazoo this past weekend, 6-0 and 5-0. The b elles once again dominated from the mound, as r aymer threw a complete game with seven strikeouts in game one, and junior Jessica Alberts followed up with a complete game of her own, carrying a no-hitter all the way into the seventh

By MICHAEL IVEY sports Writer

n otre d ame competed in three matches this past weekend at their home court, c ourtney Tennis c enter, finishing 1-2 after two close 4-3 losses against A cc foes n orth c arolina s tate and n o. 15 Georgia Tech and a 7-0 victory against IUPUI. Irish head coach r yan s achire said it was a tough weekend, but saw some positives from his team’s performance.

“We lost two close 4-3 matches,” s achire said. “They were matches we had the chance to win if a couple other points went our way, but it is what it is. There were certainly some bright spots and some guys played well, but it wasn’t enough to get the team a victory, which is what we want the most.” Against n orth c arolina s tate on Friday, freshman