Student organization raises money for disaster assistance in Philippines
By CATHERINE OWERS
news writer
d espite the miles that separate notre dame from the philippines — the site of the devastating Typhoon haiyan that hit in early november — relief efforts are underway on campus to bring help to the region.
“[Faso ] could put on these events, but no one knows that they are happening. i f you get people at the dining hall and give them flyers, then maybe they’ll stop by — and that’s really all we ask,” she said. “ we made 40 bucks just sitting in the dining hall, not even asking people for donations.”
danica l apid, copresident of the Filipino-a merican student o rganization (Faso ), said Faso worked with the a sian a merican a ssociation ( aaa) to raise money to aid in the relief and the groups have already raised approximately $1,000.
l apid said she is inspired by the notre dame community’s willingness to help with the relief effort.
“i didn’t expect everyone to be so excited and supportive,” she said. “it’s good to know that we can be the way that people can help.”
To begin its efforts, the group held a banner signing in s outh d ining hall last wednesday, l apid said. she said the event helped to raise awareness about the future events.
l apid said the club held a bagel sale in the l aFortune student c enter lobby Thursday morning that proved successful.
“it went really, really well. To make $600 off of bagels is just crazy,” she said. “ we asked for $2, but people were throwing down 20s.”
Faso and aaa hosted a fundraiser sunday at Five g uys followed by a rosary service at the grotto in the evening, l apid said.
“i spoke to hall p residents’ c ouncil and asked them to promote the events in their dorms,” she said. “i also know d illon hall is selling their old apparel for $5 each and they are donating the profits to us. slowly and slowly, it’s been adding up.”
l apid said Typhoon
haiyan was one of the most deadly and powerful storms in history.
“i heard that if you took the size of [the] typhoon and put it over the [ united states], it would stretch from Florida to new e ngland,” she said. a ll the profits from the events are sent to the national a lliance for Filipino c oncerns ( na Fcon ), l apid said, which sends the money directly to a
grassroots organization that is already established in the philippines.
“ we just didn’t want [the money] to go to the wrong places,” she said. “it’s better to go with a smaller and more direct organization.”
l apid said she is concerned about long-term support for the devastated areas of the philippines.
By CHARLIE DUCEY news w riter
The i ndian a ssociation of notre d ame ( iand ) delivered a sense of traditional i ndian culture to the ballroom in the l aFortune student c enter with a d iwali c elebration on s unday night.
The d iwali celebration, known as “The Festival of l ights,” included a prayer service, a dinner of i ndian cuisine and a dance celebration featuring i ndian music. The d iwali celebration holds great importance to people all across i ndia from a variety of faiths, including h induism, Jainism and sikhism.
“d iwali is one of the most important festivals in i ndia, marking the end of the i ndian calendar,” i ndian a ssociation faculty advisor Jindal s hah said. Five organizations came together to sponsor the d iwali
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Inspiration for ‘Freedom Writers’ speaks at College
By KIERA JOHNSEN news w riter
e rin g ruwell, author of “The Freedom w riters d iary” and founder of the Freedom w riters Foundation, spoke on encouraging diversity and understanding in a lecture titled “Teaching Tolerance” in moreau h all’s l ittle Theater on Friday. penn h igh s chool sophomore Katie l aiman approached s aint m ary’s with the idea to invite g ruwell to speak as a part of g irls s cout g old award project.
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Saint Mary’s students support local schools
By HALEIGH EHMSEN news writer
For more than seven years, the college academy of Tutoring (caT) p rogram at saint mary’s has helped students at Title i schools in south bend to succeed.
“The main goal is to provide extra resources for area schools and area kids while also allowing saint mary’s students the opportunity to serve and learn from the community,” Jessica busloan, director of the caT p rogram, said. participants in the caT p rogram
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Monday
Opening Ceremony for Peace Sand
Mandala
Jordan Hall of Science
9:30 a.m.-10 a.m.
Open to the public.
Berges Lecture
DeBartolo Hall
7 p.m.-8 p.m.
Lecture on ethics in business by Gary Aguirre.
Tuesday
Book Launch: “In the Company of the Poor”
McKenna Hall
7 p.m.
Includes discussion.
Four: 7 Catholic Fellowship
Cavanaugh Hall
8:15 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
Student-led Catholic fellowship.
Wednesday
Physics Colloquium
Nieuwland Hall
4 p.m.-5 p.m.
“Let’s Go Skating ... And Do Some Physics on the Ice.”
Laird Hunt Reading Eck Visitors Center
7:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
Reading by awardwinning short story author.
Thursday
Third Thursdays at the Snite
Snite Museum of Art
5 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Figure drawing session.
Zen Meditation Coleman-Morse Center
5:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
Open to students of all faiths.
Friday
Irish Studies Lecture
Hesburgh Library
4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
“Invisible Republics: Modernism and Childhood.”
Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
8 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Fall concert.
By TABITHA RICKETTS news writer
saint mary’s held a ceremony Friday to dedicate a tree on campus to the memory of Ziqi Zhang, an international student who was killed last year while traveling by bike between the college and notre dame.
elaine meyer-lee, director of the center for women’s intercultural leadership (cwil), said the death had, and continues to have, a big impact on members of the saint mary’s community.
“For those of us who knew her, and even for some who didn’t, it was a very tragic event last fall.” meyer-lee said.
meyer-lee said Zhang was active at saint mary’s and at notre dame, as a participant in the dual-degree engineering program.
“she jumped into things and got involved right away,” meyerlee said.
a lthough saint mary’s did not have a public memorial to mark the anniversary of Zhang’s death, meyer-lee said notre dame held
a candlelight vigil in Zhang’s memory at the grotto. she said saint mary’s students and faculty were looking to honor Zhang’s memory, as well.
“as the weather changed and got closer to what it was that night, i think a lot of us ... were thinking about her,” meyer-lee said.
“as the anniversary approached, quite a few of us ... started talking about an appropriate way to mark that as a community.”
meyer-lee said the idea for a lasting memorial to Zhang had been discussed more immediately after her death last year, but the anniversary caused the idea to resurface. student government association took the lead, in conjunction with some of Zhang’s closest friends, to make the memorial a reality.
saint mary’s chose to dedicate a hawthorn tree near regina hall, where Zhang lived during her time on campus, meyer-lee said.
“it’s strong like she was, and living as we want her memory to be,” meyer-lee said. “somebody
also pointed out that for an international student, the way a tree has its roots in land and its branches in the air was a nice symbol for the way [Zhang] crossed cultures.”
a number of faculty and students from the saint mary’s community attended the blessing and dedication, which began at 4 p.m. Friday. The ceremony opened with a prayer and a reading, and then those in attendance were invited to share favorite memories of Zhang.
several of Zhang’s friends and members of faculty shared stories about their times with her.
a lice siquin, assistant director of global education in cwil, read the letter from Zhang’s father that was shared at her memorial service last october. Those in attendance were invited to extend their hand and join in the blessing of the tree as it was watered from the font of the church of our lady of loretto.
The ceremony concluded with a closing prayer and the sign of peace. participants were
invited to congregate in the lobby of regina hall to share refreshments and continue to trade memories of Zhang.
“it was beautiful,” junior claire stewart said. “it was wonderful to see [everyone] coming together to cherish the life of a wonderful member of the saint mary’s community.”
despite not knowing Zhang very well on a personal level, stewart said she really felt the loss and thought attending the dedication was an important way
to honor Zhang’s life.
“i had one class with her freshman year. The accident happened while i was abroad in rome. ... a ll of us were really shaken up, just knowing that there was a loss in the saint mary’s community,” stewart said. “even people that we don’t know well are so vital to what our life is here, and every member is integral to our happiness.”
Contact Tabitha Ricketts at tricke01@saintmarys.edu
By KATE KULWICKI news writer
saint mary’s students embraced their inner creativity during saturday’s “g et i nked” conference through a series of workshops that were open to both men and women.
The conference, sponsored by the college’s department of e ducation, was held in c arroll auditorium in madeleva hall.
From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., students attended a range of poetry, story-boarding and character development workshops, said Kathy h iggs- coulthard,
conference coordinator and department of e ducation adjunct faculty member.
“we wanted to give them the opportunity to celebrate what they do,” h iggs- coulthard said.
“i f you play sports, you make it into a tournament or on the allstar team. There isn’t that for young writers, and so we wanted to give them that chance.”
Teachers from local community high schools conducted most of the workshops and it gave the young writers an opportunity to learn from the community, Kathy h iggscoulthard said.
James Kennedy, author of “The order of the odd-Fish,” hosted his own workshop that enabled students to see how “alive” writing can be, h iggscoulthard said.
“i want students to get out of their heads,” Kennedy said. “i find that people who get in costume, their inhibitions go away a little bit. i f they are behind a costume or a mask, they say or do things that they ordinarily wouldn’t.”
d uring his workshop, the writers sorted through a pile of miscellaneous costume pieces in the center of the room
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in order to create their new identity.
Kennedy said after the students were in costume, he encouraged them to insult each other and to exchange creative threats before they ultimately engaged in a dance battle.
“it brings writing and improvisation together in a way that brings out a different form of creativity than just writing does,” participant c hris h iggscoulthard said.
Kennedy, notre dame class of 1995, said he came to the conference to help students “unlock the gate.” he said one of
the most difficult things about writing is getting started.
“even though the insults are going to seem ridiculous, it will unblock their creativity,” Kennedy said.
h iggs- coulthard said he had been stuck in a dry spell of writing since his last creative writing class, but the conference brought out styles of writing in people that had been dormant or that they hadn’t discovered yet.
seminars like this represent the good that can be accomplished through education, h iggs- coulthard said.
“There is so much negativity right now in education, and for us to be able to look around at the wealth of experience that we have in our community with these amazing teachers and to be able to hold them up and say. ‘l ook, these are our teachers doing amazing things’ and give them the opportunity to reach children that they wouldn’t normally reach,” c hris h iggscoulthard said.
participant e mily smith said the conference positively impacted her writing.
“i definitely got more inspiration and motivation to keep writing and keep going with it,” she said.
e lzbieta woronowicz, another participant, said the workshop on metaphors was particularly helpful.
“it really changed my point of view on the similarities between things, so it gave me a different perspective,” woronowicz said.
attended the lecture on saturday by erin gruwell titled “Teaching Tolerance” to gain insight on their work in low-income schools.
c hristin Kloski, student director for the caT p rogram, said gruwell spoke about the impact a mentor and teacher can make on a student, especially when the students challenge authority.
“our students are our true educators,” Kloski said. “we learn from them, and they help us to rework our teaching or tutoring to apply to their own lives or life experiences.
“The lecture simply gave all of us the extra push we needed to believe in what we are doing in the caT program.”
Kloski, a junior, said gruwell’s words resonated with participants of the caT program, even if they never have to deal with such things themselves.
“[ gruwell’s] story is unique and can and should be applied to the caT program,” she said. “her words of inspiration and constant encouragement of
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“i think this talk was really impactful, and i hope everyone that was here takes a lot from it,” l aiman said.
g ruwell said she became a teacher because she wanted to stand up for kids who did not have a voice.
“b efore there was a book, before there was a movie, there was a group of students who were tired of being invisible, tired of being on the fringe and just wanted to matter, just wanted to be heard,” she said.
g ruwell said when she was in graduate education classes she noticed a disconnection between theory and practice.
“i realized this when i walked into my first classroom and my students could care not less about stories, and books, and s hakespeare and tales about homer,” she said.
“m y students cared about would i make it home alive, am i gonna get home and see my hardworking mom with those cockroaches and those rats in that tiny one bedroom housing project, and will there be dinner, would their be food on the table, are those cupboards going to be bare again.”
g ruwell said all of her students buried friends due to senseless gang violence by the age of 14, and it made her desperate to show them stories written about teenagers such as a nne Frank.
“a t that moment i wanted to find books written by, for and about kids,” she said. “Kids who lived in real wars, kids who didn’t pick up molotov cocktails or spray cans or use
her students is exactly what we must keep in mind and apply to our own students.”
Kloski said gruwell’s lecture was especially meaningful because saint mary’s students often work with kids whose lifestyles may be different than theirs.
“some of the students are just from torn-up homes,” Kloski said. “They are going through a lot more than we can ever imagine an eight- or nine-year-old going through.”
The caT initiative began in 2006 as an a mericorps program in which saint mary’s students read to students at Title i schools for a half hour each week, busloan said.
“a s our students would go in, they noticed there was a lot of need besides just reading to the kids,” she said. “since then, the program has been developing and growing into what it is now.”
busloan said approximately 20 students are serving coquillard e lementary and Jefferson Junior h igh through the caT p rogram this semester.
Kloski said the program selects a few students each year to serve as caT scholars. These
38 special handguns, kids who picked up a pen and tried to write along, kids who picked up a pen and tried to write their own ending.”
g ruwell said she went to her e nglish department chair to ask if she could use these books but was turned down.
“s he said my kids were too stupid to read a book, and they would never read a book from cover to cover,” g ruwell said.
“s he went on to say they were dumb; she went on to say they were nothing. i realized my kids have been called dumb, stupid and nothing so often by so many people they believed it, and they were acting accordingly.”
g ruwell said in order to convince her students to pick up a book instead of using cliff notes or downloading someone else’s essay off the i nternet, she had them wipe the slate clean and start over.
“ w ithout really thinking it through, i decided we were going to have a toast for change,” she said. “m aybe for the first time it doesn’t matter, maybe we can wipe the slate clean, maybe we can start over. i wanted to start over because i wanted my students to know they had a voice. i wanted them to know they were brilliant and they could go anywhere and do anything.”
g ruwell said over the years she has watched these 150 kids, who were not supposed to make it, become teachers, parents and leaders.
“i watched each and every one of those kids become the first in their families to graduate,” she said. “i watched each and every one of those kids become the first in their family to go to college. … i
students receive $1,000 a semester for two years of service. caT requires scholars to work in the schools for 250 hours and to complete a larger service project each semester.
students can also choose to be teaching assistants at coquillard or to work as tutors at coquillard or Jefferson, Kloski said.
approximately 50 students participate in caT’s pen-pal program during the spring semester, busloan said. i n this project, saint mary’s students correspond with coquillard students by handwritten mail. The program concludes with a dinner at the end of the semester.
Kloski said the pen-pal program enables students to participate in caT without making a major time commitment.
“you get to see what’s going on in [ south bend students’] little world,” Kloski said. “it’s also a mentoring program. … Just giving out your personal experiences can help them set goals.”
busloan said students from various majors participate in the caT p rogram.
“obviously, we have a lot of education majors in the program because it gives them
watched those kids realize their dreams.”
g ruwell said she has watched kids build mountains and has seen their book inspire others.
“i am an ordinary teacher who had an extraordinary experience with a group of kids
a little extra experience,” she said. “we also have psychology and communicative disorders majors, but we take absolutely anybody who enjoys working with kids and wants to help kids.”
The caT program serves the south bend community just as much as it does saint mary’s students, busloan said.
“we’re definitely there for the kids. i n coquillard, we’re the only after-school program that they have,” busloan said. “but also, we want to help get saint mary’s students out of the bubble, into the community, working with kids and having fun doing it.
“we hope they learn, that they get just as much out of [the program] as they are giving to the kids. we hope they learn about diversity, diversity of opinions, diversity of experiences, just more about the world around them.”
Kloski stressed the importance of getting off campus and learning about the surrounding community.
“you experience so much that you can’t if you don’t get out of the saint mary’s bubble,” Kloski said. “we’re trying to find ways
who were tired of reading books written by dead white guys in tights,” she said. “They wanted kids like you to see their story, they wanted kids like you to identify with their story, but most importantly, they wanted kids like you to write your own.”
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to connect our saint mary’s community with the local community, primarily with the schools that are involved with our program.”
Kloski said her three years participating in caT have been a meaningful part of her education at saint mary’s.
“it’s a rewarding experience in what you are doing with the people and just seeing you can change lives, legitimately,” Kloski said. “you can see the change from year to year with your students.”
Kloski said the lower-income students might face problems at home that affect their behaviors in the classroom, but the relationships they develop with the saint mary’s students positively impact their school experiences.
“you [as a saint mary’s student] may be going through something tough, and when you get to the school, your kids may give you the biggest hug for no apparent reason other than that you arrived,” Kloski said. “you’re helping them succeed, little by little.
Contact Haleigh Ehmsen at hehmse01@saintmarys.edu
The lecture was cosponsored by the s aint m ary’s e ducation c lub, cwil , ocse , sims , student g overnment a ssociation and g irls s couts of northern i ndiana m ichiania. Contact Kiera Johnsen at kjohns01@saintmarys.edu
By ANN MARIE JAKUBOWSKI news e ditor
l aura d assow walls, a professor of e nglish, delivered a lecture Friday afternoon exploring new ideas about a merican writer henry d avid Thoreau’s relationship with i rish immigrants in his hometown and their effect on his writing.
The cross-disciplinary lecture sponsored by the Keoughnaughton i nstitute for i rish studies was titled “‘a s you are brothers of m ine’: Thoreau and the i rish.” i n the presentation, walls sketched a vision of a positive, respectful interaction between Thoreau and the local i rish though “hasty readings” of his work, particularly “ walden,” which
might suggest racism or scorn towards the immigrants, she said.
“h asty reading of ‘ walden’ have given Thoreau a bad name in i rish studies,” she said. “The temptation to use Thoreau as a metric to view e nglish hostility to the i rish remains.
“c entral to all of this is the notorious chapter in ‘ walden’ in which the narrator retreats during the thunderstorm to the shanty on b aker Farm where John Field lives with his family, lectures them at pedantic length about how he, one of their nearest neighbors, lives the good life and how they could too if only they lived the same way as he.”
walls said though many literary critics react to such
episodes by saying, “henry, how could you?” her examination of his primary writings while researching for a prospective biography have brought her to a different perspective.
“Thoreau used his various writing projects to stage problems [including] multiple contrasting voices,” she said. “This multi-valence has made him a useful resource for everything from anarchism to communitarianism, from misanthropy to compassion, from wilderness escapism to civil disobedience.
“ w ith all of the above, you can add them all up and oddly enough, they do not cancel each other out … Thoreau relentlessly probes the conventions of his time. s eeking the ground that will not yield under pressure, he probed the i rish immigrants with all the rest.”
Thoreau held all members of his society to a high standard, walls said, and at times found fault with all, including the i rish. b ut the i rish, unlike most other groups, gave him “cause for hope” too, she said.
w hen the writer moved to walden pond in 1844, he lived among the i rish immigrants in a shanty on land purchased
event: the g raduate student union, i nternational student s ervice and a ctivities, c ampus m inistry and the i ndian a ssociation of notre d ame. The student a ctivities o rganization ( sao ) helped provide the venue for the evening in the l aFortune b allroom, and c ampus m inistry sponsored the d iwali celebration as part of the p rayer from a round the world s eries.
p rof. shah began the event with an explanation of the origins of d iwali. he said the story of d iwali spans back into i ndian lore and the tale of King d ashratha, whose eldest son r ama was betrothed to the beautiful sita and was set to
from r alph waldo e merson, walls said.
“[The cabin] Thoreau built [at walden] was nothing less … than an i rish laborer’s shanty, repackaged to house a yankee laborer’s lifelong dream to escape from labor altogether by becoming a great writer,” she said.
The patronizing tone of the John Field lecture episode in “ walden” has frustrated many scholars as an example of Thoreau’s arrogance towards the i rish, but walls said she reads it as a parody of the first half of the book.
“note that Thoreau sets himself up as an insufferable pedant; a meddling, tiresome intruder who lectures the beleaguered family in reckless abstractions cast in absurdly run-on sentences; a ‘philosopher’ wagging his finger in their faces,” she said. “This is an extravagant parody of the entire first half of ‘ walden.’
“b ut, if he can’t reach John Field, who is standing right there in front of him, with [his] entire future and the future of [his] children hanging in the balance, how can he possibly reach us? For roughly 200 pages, Thoreau has been lecturing us on and on about how our proper economic choices
inherit the kingdom. however, r ama was exiled by his jealous stepmother for 14 years. meanwhile, the demon king r avana kidnapped sita, leading to a fierce battle between r ama and r avana that ended in r ama’s victory and the return of his bride sita.
“The people lit candles to mark the return of r ama and sita, creating the festival of lights that announces the triumph of good over evil,” s hah said. “i n the story, r avana embodies all that is evil, and r ama embodies all that is good.”
g raduate student g aurav nigam, co-president of iand, said the d iwali festival required about a month of planning and sought to fulfill several goals.
“ we wanted to make
“The hard part of doing all this aid stuff is that people frontload the relief effort,” she said. “The problem, i think, is further down the road, like three months from now, there won’t be as much money or attention.”
will lead to our spiritual [wellbeing], and just like John Field, we haven’t heard a thing. h ave we changed our lives? no, nothing has changed.”
walls said she believes Thoreau reprises the content
“Hasty
reading of ‘Walden’ has given Thoreau a bad name in Irish studies.”
Laura Dassow Walls professor of English
of the book’s first half to emphasize his underlying point, which happens to take place in the course of this conversation with the i rish family. b y examining his intentions more closely, she said readers can better grasp the respect he had for the hardworking i rish people and their ability to “boldly live” apart from the mainstream a merican culture.
Contact Ann Marie Jakubowski at ajakubo1@nd.edu
everyone aware of the i ndian festivals and make the i ndian students feel at home because we don’t get to celebrate i ndian festivals in a merica very often,” nigam said. nigam said the i ndian a ssociation typically hosts two major festivals each year. suresh v ishwanath, a chemical engineering graduate student and co-president of iand, said those who celebrate d iwali pray for well-being and blessing on this occasion. a ttendees of the d iwali celebration at notre d ame came from many faiths and regions.
“s ome people here today faced two to three hour drives to help set up and be with us today,” v ishwanath said.
Contact Charlie Ducey at cducey@nd.edu
The next fundraiser will be held over byu weekend, l apid said. s he said Faso ’s m arch cultural show will also donate their proceeds to the relief effort.
“ i t’s our 20th annual show, and we’re trying to bring back a ton of alumni,” she said.
Contact Catherine Owers at cowers@nd.edu
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l et’s play a game.
i magine your feelings during one of the greatest moments in your life… ”a mazing.” now let’s say that you knew this moment would happen two months ahead of time. Feel like you could “Touch the sky?” Then, as you’re counting down the weeks in anticipation, you find out two days before that it won’t happen. Think i’m “heartless” right? ok, “guilt Trip,” you find out the next day that your moment will indeed happen, but in a little over a month. “The Joy” returns. p retty emotionally exhausting game right? well it’s based on a true story. my “p inocchio story.” it all started when i found out in late august that Kanye west, the voice of our generation, was going on his first solo tour in five years and was stopping in c hicago on nov. 9. i notified the “c lique” and got tickets mid-september. i felt like i was living one “hell of a l ife” and that nothing could “bring me down.” but this is the part where it “a ll Falls down.” a s i counted down the days in anticipation, news broke late october that his tour may be postponed due to a truck accident that damaged his custommade video screens. i waited for the “bad news,” praying that “Jesus walks” with me and prevents a postponement, but lo and behold, two days before the concert, the show in c hicago was postponed. “welcome to heartbreak.” but i knew Kanye would “never l et me down” and sure enough he rescheduled his “homecoming” concert to december. it was a “celebration” now i know you must be thinking, “Twista had this on in The source!” a nd “isn’t this a little overboard for a concert?” no. not when Kanye west is the topic of discussion. he is the man whose tours ( watch the Throne and glow in the dark) have been known to change lives and touch souls. not to mention the show is in his hometown c hicago where he’ll definitely be “l ooking for Trouble” when “a ll of the l ights” hit him. did i forget to mention that he brought Jesus on stage? yes you read right, Jesus, in all “The glory” and the “power.” l astly before i forget, King Kendrick l amar is the opening act. That’s as “real” as it gets so don’t kill my vibe. i know 99% of you won’t understand or repost this, but for the 1% that will, i have one thing to say, “yeezy season approaching.”
Contact John at jning@nd.edu
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Roth Think. it’s not i llegal yet
Tuesday will mark the 150th anniversary of president abraham lincoln’s speech dedicating the soldiers’ national cemetery in gettysburg, penn., given in 1863. located within the gettysburg national military park, this cemetery was created for union soldiers to be buried after the civil war, but was expanded to accommodate those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in later conflicts. The gettysburg address has become one of the most renowned american public speeches in history and is revered alongside other notable deliverances including martin luther King Jr.’s “i have a dream” and John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. in dedicating the soldiers’ national cemetery, lincoln was invited later on by the memorial committee almost as an afterthought. edward everett, who delivered a two-hour oration on behalf of the fallen soldiers, gave the primary speech of the day. lincoln followed with remarks that lasted roughly three minutes. The eloquence of honest abe’s delivery and the succinctness of his speech captivated the audience at gettysburg. The entire nation became mesmerized by lincoln’s ability to weave christian themes into a secular memorial for the war-fallen. Time was significant for the president’s speech too, as the union was two years into the civil war — fighting right in the thick of things with an end still looming in the distance. lincoln begins the gettysburg address appealing to the Founding Fathers, u s constitution and declaration of independence. starting with “Four score and seven years ago,” he immediately takes the audience back to 1776, reminding them of the newly proposed notion that “all men are created equal.” The president quickly follows by bringing back the assembly to the present and candidly mentions the desperate conditions of the
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nation under strife. simultaneously, he asks indirectly if any country conceived in liberty could endure such a test of civil war. The frankness of his diction creates an atmosphere of trust and gravity. The audience knows their president is not trying to hoodwink them or understate the dire situation they are currently in. lincoln’s juxtaposed use of “fitting and proper” in context of dedicating the fields previously used for battle as a modern war memorial invokes religious themes to his strongly christian audience. each individual listening to abe’s words understands that he is not only speaking as president, but also as a concerned citizen, hoping to inspire confidence in the nation under fire. The text invokes a desire for a more just future with equality under the law while remembering the past in astounding brevity.
The president concludes his speech by stating that even through words, no man can dedicate, consecrate, or hallow the plains of gettysburg — again appealing to christian themes — only the men who fought on the ground could possibly do so. he gives all of the honor to the individuals who lost their lives fighting for what they “so far have nobly advanced.” instead of attempting to sanctify a ground already made holy by the death of 8,000 men, lincoln suggests that the best way to commemorate their sacrifice would be to continue fighting for a “new birth of freedom.” here he ends his remarks by famously calling for a government “of the people, by the people and for the people,” hoping america can regain its position as a model of democratic principles for other nations to look up to for years to come.
putting the debate over his response to horace greeley’s new york Tribune editorial aside, (which polarized views on whether or not lincoln was actually the “great emancipator”) there is still much to take from lincoln’s powerful dedication at gettysburg. many historians argue that the gettysburg address transformed the
entire meaning of the civil war as viewed from modernity. not once did lincoln discuss specifics of battle, the names of any soldiers, the south, the union, secession or states rights — he did not even mention the name of gettysburg! instead, he focused his speech on attempting to cleanse the nation of its original sin and contextualized his hope for the united states to stay united as one union. instead of discussing individual actors at gettysburg or describing what the people who fought there were like, the president’s speech transcends the physical world and instead emphasizes the importance of ideas, namely equality and justice.
so, 150 years later, how far have we come as a nation? have we made lincoln proud? are we still a beacon for others to model after, just as the protestants wanted to create a “city upon a hill” to symbolize american exceptionalism, work ethic and virtue? or, have we not advanced as far as one might hope 150 years would allow — have we actually not proven that the united states went through a new birth of freedom? is the government still of the people, by the people and for the people? it seems the answers to these questions might not be as simple as one would hope. regardless of your personal take on these questions we should be asking ourselves, lincoln’s gettysburg address brought together a divided nation by candidly discussing our troubling past, which many americans hid in some dark corner in the back of their minds or attempted to rationalize as simply a states rights issue.
Connor Roth is a junior studying economics and constitutional studies. He lives in Duncan Hall, hails from Cleveland and is currently participating in the London abroad program through Notre Dame. He can be contacted at croth1@nd.edu
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i will try not to waste words. i t has been a long football season. d espite the loss of the starting quarterback at the end of the spring and countless injuries on the defensive front, our football team has demonstrated tremendous resolve. This has not gone unnoticed. n ow, we have one home game left. s enior d ay. a s a senior myself, i offer that it would be nice if the team sings the a lma m ater with the student section after the game, win or lose. i confess
no grand argument behind this request nor a want to address some larger issue. s imply, i believe the act would be greatly appreciated. Thank you and go i rish.
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you’ve probably heard about lexiles already — you know — that system of ranking books by difficulty using quantitative analysis of word frequency and sentence length? The proprietary textual-complexity measurement system garnered a great deal of press in the past few weeks. lots of bad press, actually. it’s something that deserves further scrutiny and attention.
The idea of lexiles is quite simple: as we have units of measure for temperature, length, weight, periods of time, and so on, why not quantify the complexity, the reading difficulty of a text? i can appreciate the possible advantages of having a solid, instant, digit-sized impression of a book. Teachers in primary and secondary schools could use lexiles to choose which books to assign to which students — knowing in advance if students would be bored, would meet with a challenge, or would struggle through without comprehension. however, practice rarely mirrors theory; belief in the validity of such a scale is sure to be shaken when confronted with its results. as reported by blaine greteman in The new republic, classic novels like steinbeck’s The grapes of wrath or harper lee’s To Kill a mockingbird receive perplexingly low lexile scores (680, 870); and books like The hunger games (810) or mr. popper’s penguins (910), which laymen might consider simpler novels, somehow merited higher scores. no human reader
tasked with ranking these books by qualitative or quantitative methods would return the same results. so i hope, at least. if education reform is important to you, then the lexile scale should make you feel uneasy. The common core state standards initiative, sponsored by the national governors association, already incorporates lexile scores into its new english language arts curriculum; the common core itself has been adopted by 45 states out of 50. The goal of the initiative is to increase curricular rigor, and an easy way to do this is to quantify textual difficulty and assign tougher books to young students. but the adoption of lexiles breeds contradictions. consider: The new lexile range for grade 10 is 1080-1305 lexiles, but the example text for grades 9-10 is steinbeck’s The grapes of wrath — 680 lexiles only! again, any reasonably well-read person could tell you what lexiles can’t: The difficulty of a text is more than the sum of its syntax.
To the credit of the ccss for english, “quantitative dimensions of text complexity” are only one third of the ccss methodology of text evaluation—the other two are qualitative dimensions of text complexity and consideration of readers and tasks. Further, ccss methodology presents lexiles as one of many possible quantitative schemes—a competitor to the FleschKincaid readability test, the dale-chall readability formula, and the aTos formula. yet cursory or deep readings of the ccss literature both confirm the initiative’s preference for the lexile scale: it receives
the most mentions, and graphs and charts accompanying the recommendations use lexile score ranges instead of FleschKincaid or the coh-metrix system, the only identified non-profit readability evaluation service mentioned by ccss. That the lexile scale is the product of a private educational company known as metametrics should not be problematic per se.
given recent protest against the effectiveness of for-profit charter school operators, i think it would be reasonably cautious to step back and question if we as taxpayers should turn over any part of our curricular standards to an entity that’s unaccountable to the public.
could there be a better investment? i think so. primary and secondary school libraries could fulfill the curatorial and diagnostic roles performed by lexiles. most of what’s said about school libraries now revolves around the digital. emphasis on computer literacy seemingly eclipses the library’s traditional role of promoting literacy, love of reading, and connecting readers to new books they might enjoy and might profit from. i think the mission of the ccss for english language arts could benefit by libraries staffed by librarians and full of books.
statistics collected by the u s department of education indicate that in 2008, 91 percent of public schools had a library or media center and of those schools only 62 percent of libraries were staffed by a fulltime librarian; 27 percent of libraries had neither fulltime nor part-time staff. compare this with the data from 2000,
when 86 percent of public school libraries employed a fulltime librarian. This decline rings true to me: my high school had a librarian my freshman year but by my senior year the position was unfilled and the space defunct.
librarians could work one-on-one with students, develop a reading plan for them based on interests and skill level, track their progress and much more. english teachers could partner with librarians to help students who are falling behind or gifted students who aren’t stimulated by the grade-level curriculum, freeing up more class time for instruction in grammar and writing.
w hat’s important is to inspire a lifelong love of reading, and especially reading drama, poetry and fiction. currently, the ccss heavily favors the reading of nonfiction and technical texts. i think it should not ignore literature, though; studies show that reading literary fiction can increase students’ empathy — a quality some people value, even if they are unable to practice it.
w hat you can’t accomplish with numbers, you might achieve with a human being who cares about books and the students who read them, and a viable space in which books are available and valued.
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at our catholic university, what happens when a teaching of the catholic church is ignored and many suffer harm as a result?
The highest concentration of uninsured children in st. Joseph county is likely right on notre dame’s campus. at the university village, there are many children of undergraduate and graduate students without health insurance. Their parents cannot afford the university’s dependent health care plan. as children of international students and non-citizens, these kids do not qualify for public assistance programs like medicaid. many of their parents are also uninsured. Their situation, in most cases, will not be improved by the affordable care act. These families earn too little to qualify for health insurance exchange subsidies and cannot join state medicaid programs as non-citizens until after five years of residency.
it is not news that notre dame has uninsured children right on campus. many university groups have tried to help them. The recent report on the graduate school led by former dean mark roche spoke about unaffordable student dependent health care, declaring, “it stands in clear contradiction to our catholic mission and its social justice elements, and it appears to be hurting us academically, as we are behind many of our peers and aspirational peers.” a
resolution of the Faculty senate recommended that “increasing the rate of dependent health care coverage … embodies the imperatives of catholic social Teaching toward human dignity, communal solidarity and tending to the needs of the poor.” and the graduate student union called upon the administration to “examine ways to support affordable access to health insurance for uninsured and underinsured student families as a matter of priority, both for the integrity of notre dame’s catholic character and for the competitiveness of the graduate school.”
over the five years i have been involved with this issue, the administration has not once responded to these invocations of notre dame’s catholic character. There have been resolutions and reports to recommend recognizing the dignity of these uninsured persons, a petition drive with over 300 signatures, a peaceful protest of families in front of the dome and many meetings. in all this, the president, provost, executive vice president and dean of the graduate school have never referred to the catholic teaching that health care is a human right. They have ignored it. and in so doing they have ignored the need of many, especially children, who require medical care.
president John Jenkins has become an advocate for civil discourse in our highly polarized society, the subject of a forthcoming book he is authoring. in an address to emory university in 2011, he said of christian responsibility in the public square:
“if i feel christian love and good will for the other side, then
it would be my duty to persuade them … To stand apart, proclaim my position and refuse to talk except to judge does not reduce evil or promote love. and if it does neither, how can it be inspired by god?”
These are words that, if followed, would heal many vituperative debates. and yet this ideal is absent from the administration’s dealings with uninsured student spouses and children. There are many faculty, staff and students, as organizations and as individuals, who have publically and forthrightly advocated that the university must recognize the human dignity of these persons via affordable health insurance.
rather than a respectful conversation on the meaning of the catholic teaching that health care is a human right, the administration has stood apart and refused to talk about this doctrine. i commend Fr. Jenkins on his advocacy for a more humane discourse, i simply wish that he and his fellow officers could be the kind of leaders Fr. Jenkins would like others to be. The harm of ignoring this teaching is especially done to these uninsured children and spouses and to the catholic character of our community, yet it is also done to the legacy of Fr. Jenkins.
Richard Klee is a doctoral candidate in theology and an undergraduate alumnus of the University of Notre Dame. He can be contacted at rklee2@nd.edu
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By CAELIN MILTKO
s cene writer
saturday night, eric hutchinson performed at legends for the second time, and he did so with plenty of flair. The concert was part of his tour to promote his album “a lmost solo” (a live version is currently available free at erichutchinson. com for the first million fans). opening for him was the fan-favorite from this week’s acousticafe: senior seamus donegan.
The student performer gathered a crowd of his own, drawing loud cheers from the crowd the moment he walked on stage. he started off his five-song set with his cover of matt nathanson’s “Faster.” The song suited his vocal range perfectly and his acoustic style easily complimented eric hutchinson’s folk pop sound.
The highlight of donegan’s set list was easily his closing, a cover of onerepublic’s “counting stars” during which he called up the talented junior elizabeth curtin to sing back up. The song’s upbeat tones and quick tempo had the crowd dancing, ready for eric hutchinson to take the stage.
unfortunately, in the interim between
the opener and hutchinson, the energy of the crowd waned a bit. w hile legends continued to play songs from bands like capitol cities and of monsters and men, the loud tuning of instruments from the stage consistently drowned the music out. They seemed to have particular problems with one of the keyboards. despite this concerning break, they fixed it before hutchinson came on.
he took the stage with dramatics, a blinding cacophony of lights heralding his arrival. his yellow pants, striped button down and black blazer caused some comment amongst the crowd but it quickly faded to a cheery sing-along (or humming for the majority who didn’t know the words) and occasional cheers as he started off his set.
he built up the excitement in the first couple songs, inciting the crowd to sing along with him to “oh!” and pausing to make sure they did just that. hutchinson’s style is one that makes it hard not to sway along to the very slowest of his songs and dance excitedly to the fastest.
midway through his set, he pointed out a sign made for a girl’s birthday and dedicated his next song to her, calling the
crowd to silence as he prepared for one of his quieter songs. The crowd acquiesced after a fashion and hutchinson’s gift was the regretful song “breakdown more.”
he followed this up with a cover of michael Jackson’s “The way you make me Feel,” starting the crowd moving again and had more of the crowd singing along to the classic hit.
his longest introduction of the night was for his new song, “Tell the world.” he told a charmingly mundane story of lasagna as the impetus for the writing this song. The loudest cheer of the night came when he asked the crowd to greet the name of this new song as if they were truly excited and they did not disappoint.
“Tell the world” was characteristic of hutchinson’s style, a little folksy with the type of rhythm that induces unconscious swaying.
The mood obviously picked up when hutchinson played one of his more wellknown songs, “watching you watch him.” The song was featured on “grey’s a natomy” before the release of his last album.
hutchinson left the stage before performing his most famous song, “rock &
roll” which was part of “The sisterhood of the Traveling pants 2” soundtrack. as the crowd cheered for an encore, it seemed unlikely he would leave without playing the hit.
he came back on stage and opened his encore with a cover of the backstreet boys’ “i want it That way.” if a bit cheesy, the song is guaranteed to bring a certain level of excitement to a crowd and it certainly served its purpose in ramping up the mood for the final song.
he ended with “rock & roll,” satisfying those who came because they knew the one song and bringing the crowd to its biggest moving point of the night. The crowd sang and danced along with hutchinson all the while. he ended his show with the same dramatics of his entrance, all of the lights shutting off as he ended his final song.
a ll in all, the concert was worth braving the rain that poured down on the walk over. hutchinson’s hits were fun to dance to and his lesser-known songs were great to hear and learn.
Contact Caelin Miltko at cmoriari@nd.edu
By GABRIELA LESKUR
s cene writer
i’ve been to pemco’s musicals and the FTT departments’ plays before, but the collaboration between the two in “cabaret” was a whole new experience and a wonderful experience at that. set in 1930s berlin, “cabaret” switches between two main locations: a boarding house and a risqué nightclub, called the Kit Kat Klub. The chorus throughout the show poses as the erotic dancers of the Kit Kat Klub, led by their e mcee (sophomore a nthony murphy) who narrates the entire musical. donning sparkly pasties, murphy did his best through his outlandish behavior to acclimate the audience to the extreme sexual nature of the show. at times, this was difficult. For example, the opening number had an immense shock factor and probably made some people uncomfortable who did not know they would be seeing
a musical where most of the cast members are wearing only their underwear. however, once the audience realized the extent of sexual references and gyrating that would be occurring, a sense of calm returned — except to the old woman sitting nearby me, who continued to look forward in disapproval.
The cast did a wonderful job allowing the sexual nature of the show to serve the deeper meaning in the plot. i n the first half of “cabaret, ” it appeared to be simply a show of fun and games. it would be easy to write off the musical as merely sensual, sensational entertainment. songs like “Two l adies” epitomized this, with the e mcee partaking in mimed group sexual positions with a woman and a man dressed in drag. however, right before intermission the audience was shown that this musical deals with much greater issues — primarily, the nazi regime.
b y setting the musical around a
nightclub, “cabaret” takes a raw, original take on the plight of various types of individuals in g ermany right before the nazis came into power. The main storyline follows Kit Kat british showgirl sally bowles (played by senior brigid c lary) as she falls in love with an a merican named c liff bradshaw (played by junior c hris siemann) who has come to berlin to teach e nglish and work on a novel. c lary truly captures the character of sally bowles, expertly weaving rich depth into what might appear to be a somewhat naïve and selfish woman. her solos stole the show, especially her heart-warming rendition of “maybe This Time” and her heart-breaking performance of “cabaret.” siemann compliments c lary well and their characters’ relationship, while odd, is believable.
one of the side stories is that of the boarding house mistress Fraulein schneider (played by senior mary w heaton), and her lover, herr schultz
(played by junior brian scully), who happens to be a Jewish fruit seller. w heaton and scully stole the hearts of the audience in their phenomenal portrayal of pure love between two lonely, aging individuals. Their duet about love found in sharing a pineapple led to an audible “awww” from the audience, or from me at least.
The dancing by the Kit Kat girls and boys brought a true professional edge to the show that was icing on the cake. “cabaret” is nothing like i’ve ever seen before. The show wove a genuinely poignant story of love and loss in nazi g ermany with extensive sexual content, without making it seem overdone or explicit. The actors were all phenomenal and my friends and i may have shed a tear as we walked out. The epitome of a theatre-goers dream.
Contact Gabriela Leskur at gleskur@nd.edu
By JOHN DARR s cene writer
last Thursday night, legends hosted a concert showcasing student bands and songwriters. The atmosphere was chilled out and comfortable — a welcome contrast to many of the venue’s events. over the course of the night, students wandered in to cheer on their friends and soak in the homegrown music. it was the sort of place where a freshman like me can wander in alone and end up being pulled into the banter of friendly upperclassmen.
The show was opened by sophomore guitarist/vocalist emily migliore. Thursday marked her first performance at legends; given her composure, one would never be able to tell. emily’s performance was characterized by weaving fingerpicked guitar lines held down by her warm alto voice. it’s the sort of voice found in the final
moments of an indie film, when the lead female starts singing, and you’re like, “come on indie films, these random girls always end up with ridiculously good voices.” but no one was complaining. emily covered a host of songs ranging from indie classics to lesser-known tunes. highlights included (but were hardly limited to) crowd favorite “we’re gonna be Friends” by the w hite stripes, grin-along “lost in my mind” by The head and the heart, and that one magical note at the end of “broadripple is burning” (by margot and the nuclear so and so’s). The set was comfy, cozy and over too soon. if you ever have the opportunity to see emily in concert and you don’t go, you, sir, are a scrub. next up was a classic notre dame band, basement Fish. The Fish are a local powerhouse; they’ve won two battles of the bands now. rumors are they’re prepping for a third victory before disbanding, since
most members of the band are seniors and will be taking off next year. with their set last night, it’s easy to see why this band is a winner. basement Fish goes, so to speak, hard in the paint. with thundering drums, powerful guitars and a lead singer who commands the microphones like a champion, basement Fish plays big music.
The setlist boasted a series of stadiumsize covers spanning artists from The w ho to bruce springsteen as well as summer hits like “semi-charmed life” by Third eye blind and “only wanna be with you” by hootie & the blowfish. basement Fish throws a good party — next show, you should be sure to invite yourself over.
For the final act, singer-songwriter senior a manda ly took the stage. starting out with a cover of red hands featuring uber-talented friend david augustus, a manda’s set was a testament to her accomplishments as a musician. her songs
are extraordinarily well written; to use the word “professional” would be an understatement. Full of emotion and extremely well-executed, a manda’s songs are deeply personal and yet never stray into the realm of cloying sentimentality. every song i felt my heart nodding along with ly’s lyrics of love and strength. That kind of power is pretty rare these days. as ly said during the concert, each song is like “a message in a bottle, and if it touches at least one person, then it serves its purpose.” purpose served. a ll in all, the show was a huge success. with a number of talented musicians and a variety of styles, student band night was fit for any audience member — even one who didn’t personally know any of the bands. so next time it happens, wander on down to legends, sit back and enjoy the show. it’ll make you even more proud to be at nd
Contact John Darr at jdarr@nd.edu
Mary Green sports writer
From a purely aesthetic standpoint, my favorite game of the year occurred yesterday: the day the steelers don their striped throwback uniforms.
i’m not a steelers fan; i just love games when teams “go retro,” as my dad would say. They remind us of years past, of glorious or not-so-glorious times in an organization’s history. no matter how good a team was, at least its uniform looked good or looked so bad that it started to look good.
now, without further ado, i present my definitive list of the best throwback uniforms in professional sports.
houston a stros obviously this is included on the list, falling into the so-badit-looks-good category. This is the jersey that comes to mind whenever i think “throwback.” The stripes across the front come in an array of sunshine-like colors that make the astros look like promoters of starbursts or Fanta, and the font of the team’s name screams 1960s. Throw in the white pants with the awkwardly large number on the top of the right leg, and you can picture nolan ryan winding up to deliver a 100-miles-per-hour strike down the middle.
i was disappointed when the astros decided to go in a cleaner, more streamlined direction with their newest uniform design, but credit to them for paying homage to the glory days of sports fashion with the noteworthy stripes along the side of their current batting practice jerseys.
Tampa bay buccaneers next is the nFl’s best retro look, the creamsicle-colored unis debuted by the team in its first season, when it set a league record by finishing 0-14. w hile the color was a universally flattering hue that looked good on people of all shapes and sizes, especially 300-pound linemen, it was far from the best part of the uniform.
That distinction belongs to the bucs’ helmet, with the flirtatious bucco bruce in the center. but seriously, the pirate is winking, clenching a sword between his teeth and wearing hat with a huge feather. without a doubt, he
is the most suave mascot in history, worthy of a spot on my list and a place in my heart.
new e ngland Patriots
speaking of characters on helmets, the pats certainly bring a good runner-up to the discussion. nothing says “a merican” more than a colonial soldier hiking a football. The picture is probably a recreation of how the colonists celebrated christmas in 1776 after they crossed the delaware and surprised the hessians in Trenton, so historical accuracy certainly comes into play in my rankings. even more, this uniform’s colors are more distinctly patriotic with red, white and blue than new england’s current look of red, silver and blue.
a nything from Pittsburgh
The steel city knows how to rock the retro. The aforementioned steelers take the no. 1 design with their striped yellow and black jerseys, complete with numbers that look like pieces of white paper taped onto the front. Throw in the matching striped socks, and you have quite the bumblebee-esque design.
The pirates also chose to wear the signature stripes on the diamond, but theirs are found on their early-1900s bucket hats. This is the best use of victorianera headgear in all of sports, furthering pittsburgh’s claim on the title of “best-dressed teams from one city,” as determined by me. last come the penguins and their ’90s sweater featuring the triangularly-shaped bird. before the pens turned flashy and replaced yellow with gold, they wore the marigold shade that has made its mark on all of pittsburgh’s teams, so it is only right that a city that coordinates its looks as well as pittsburgh does earns a spot on the list.
The nba
Just for kicks and giggles, i would like to see david stern mandate a league-wide day in which all teams are required to wear the infamous short shorts. no luck so far, but a girl can hope, right?
Contact Mary Green at mgreen8@nd.edu
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Associated Press
Tampa , Fla. — it looks like bobby rainey finally may have found a n Fl home.
The diminutive running back, playing for his third team in less than two seasons, rushed for 163 yards and scored three touchdowns sunday to lead the Tampa bay buccaneers over the struggling atlanta Falcons 41-28.
The waiver wire pickup filling in for the injured doug martin and m ike James scored on first-half runs of 43 and 3 yards. he then caught a 4-yard T d pass from m ike glennon in the third quarter to help the bucs (2-8) win for the second straight time following an 0-8 start.
The 5-foot-8, 212-pound rainey also rushed for 45 yards and scored the go-ahead touchdown in a 22-19 victory over m iami the previous week. he’s been with the bucs just four games after beginning the season as a kick returner and backup running back with the c leveland browns.
matt ryan threw an 80-yard T d pass to harry douglas, extending his streak of consecutive games with at least one touchdown to 16 games. he threw a 6-yarder to roddy w hite in the fourth quarter, but also was sacked three times by Tampa bay’s g erald mccoy and had one of two interceptions returned 37 yards for a T d by linebacker mason Foster.
The Falcons (2-8) have lost four straight by a combined score of 135-61.
glennon completed 20 of 23 passes for 231 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. v incent Jackson caught a 3-yard T d pass and finished with 10 receptions for 165 yards.
rainey entered the n Fl as an undrafted free agent with baltimore after leaving western Kentucky as the h illtoppers’ career rushing leader. he was released once, re-signed to the ravens’ practice squad and eventually wound up on the active roster before suffering a season-ending knee injury.
baltimore went on to win the super bowl, and rainey received a championship ring despite not appearing in a regular-season game as a rookie.
The bucs opened the season with eight straight losses, with four of the setbacks coming in the final two minutes of regulation or overtime. They beat
m iami to become the last team in the league to win this season, and played again sunday with a confidence that’s been building since an overtime loss at seattle two weeks ago.
i n addition to running the ball effectively for the third straight game, the bucs recovered an onside kick, picked up a first down on a play that began with a direct snap to running back brian l eonard and pulled a couple more trick plays out their playbook that didn’t work — a halfback pass and punter m ichael Koenen’s long, crossfield throw on a fake field goal. a nd that was in the first half alone, while the bucs were building a 24-6 lead.
rainey came off the bench after James broke his ankle during Tampa bay’s opening possession against m iami. he had a 31-yard run before finishing a fourth-quarter, goahead drive with his first n Fl touchdown. w ith martin and James both sidelined for the year, the bucs will count on rainey heavily for the remainder of the season.
ryan completed 19 of 36 passes for 254 yards. he was replaced by dominique davis midway through the fourth quarter, but re-entered the game after the backup limped off the field with an injury.
The Falcons trailed 41-13 before a ntone smith scored on a 50-yard run and ryan threw his T d pass to w hite.
Chicago 23, baltimore 20 chicago — The c hicago bears had to wait out a long rain delay and put in extra time to come away with a much-needed win.
robbie g ould kicked a 38-yard field goal to lift the bears to a 23-20 victory over baltimore sunday in a game delayed about two hours by a torrential downpour.
Justin Tucker tied it for the ravens with a 21-yard field goal at the end of regulation.
The big delay came after Tucker kicked a 52-yard field goal with 4:51 remaining in the first quarter. Fans were ordered to take cover. players headed to the locker rooms as heavy rains and winds whipped through soldier Field. They emerged about two hours later with the sky clearing and the sun coming out, but the rain and wind returned in the third quarter, turning the stands into a sea of ponchos.
g ould won it with a 38-yarder on third-and-8 with 8:41 left in oT, and the bears (6-4)
came away with the win after dropping four of six.
They were leading 20-17 with 10:33 remaining in regulation after matt Forte scored on a 14-yard screen from Josh mc c own, dodging three or four defenders along the way, but the r avens (4-6) made one big push down the stretch to send it to overtime.
They drove from the 16 to the 2, getting a one-handed catch from dallas c lark on a fourth down at 44. a fter Joe Flacco overthrew Torrey smith in the back of the end zone on third down, Tucker tied it at 20-all with 3 seconds left.
mc c own threw for 216 yards with Jay cutler sidelined by a high left ankle sprain. a lshon Jeffery had seven catches for 83 yards. Forte added 42 receiving and 83 rushing.
Julius peppers had two sacks. david bass returned an interception for a touchdown, and Jonathan bostic set up a field goal by g ould at the end of the first half with an interception.
The r avens were able to get their ground game going, with r ay r ice rushing for 131 yards and a touchdown against a team that’s struggled to stop the run. but Flacco had a rough day, throwing for 162 yards and getting picked off twice.
The bears scored 10 points in a 12-second stretch in the second quarter, on a 20-yard field goal by g ould and a 24yard interception return by bass. he picked off Flacco at the line and ran untouched to the end zone, c hicago’s fourth interception return for a T d this season, but baltimore immediately answered with an 80-yard scoring drive.
Flacco lofted a 5-yard scoring pass between two defenders to smith to put the r avens back on top, 17-10, with 4:08 left in the half. but an interception at midfield by bostic with a minute left led to a 46yard field goal by g ould as time expired, making it a fourpoint game at the half. a nd what a strange half it was.
play was stopped just after 12:30 p.m. c T and didn’t resume until 2:25. There were reports of at least one tornado touching down in i llinois and extensive damage in at least one part of the state. at s oldier Field, long lines formed in the upper deck as drenched fans tried to make their way toward the tunnel with lightning striking near the stadium.
By HENRY HILLIARD sports writer
after a month of competition on the road, notre dame returned to the rolfs aquatic center on Friday and saturday for home meets, where they swept big Ten foes michigan state and wisconsin in a pair of dual meets. The irish (4-4) beat the spartans 197-103 and the badgers 191.5-108.5 and have won three of their last four dual competitions.
The weekend meets mark the first time the irish have competed since coach Tim welsh announced his retirement effective at the end of the 2013-2014 campaign. with 29 years at the helm, the second-longest tenure of any notre dame head coach, welsh will turn the reigns over to longtime assistant matt Tallman.
“i hope the announcement puts a sense of urgency into everything we do,” welsh said. “it makes every practice, and every workout exciting because my number of days left here is getting smaller.”
The squad dove into the weekend in commanding fashion, winning 11 individual events against michigan state, including opening the meet with 10 wins in a row. notre dame set
the tone early, winning the 200yard medley relay with a time of 1:30.54. The team bested its individual event win total against wisconsin, winning 12 more individual events to close out the weekend.
“our performance this weekend was excellent. we love swimming at home and you could see that right away on Friday against a deep michigan state team,” welsh said. “The team swam very well across the board.”
a ll-americans senior Frank dyer and junior Zach stephens, who have consistently been the top scorers for the team, bolstered notre dame’s performance once again this weekend. against the badgers, the duo won eight of the team’s 12 individual events. dyer took home three first-place finishes Friday and took home four more top finishes for the irish on saturday. stephens matched dyer on saturday, also bringing home four golds in the 100-yard and 200-yard breaststroke, the 200-yard individual medley and the 200-yard medley relay. dyer and stephens led the way for a number of strong performances from all over the irish roster.
“saturday was a total team effort,” welsh said. “everyone raced very well individually and
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side by side as a team. i thought the best part of the weekend, though, was the morale. our team spirit was the best i have seen this year.”
on the diving boards, freshman Joseph coumos swept both the 1-meter and 3-meter against the badgers on saturday, and won the 1-meter on Friday. his performance included a careerbest 381.52 points in the 3-meter board against wisconsin on saturday. Teammate junior michael Kreft, who won the 3-meter board with 375.60 points, joined coumos on the victory podium against michigan state. after the weekend sweep of the spartans and badgers, the irish will have two weekends without competition for the first time since the season began eight weeks ago. The team is back in action for its 2013 finale at the hawkeye invitational on dec. 6-8 in iowa city, iowa.
“we are really excited about this break,” welsh said. “This past weekend allowed us to finish a month of tough racing on a high note, and now we have the opportunity to and focus on improving for the next stretch of the season.”
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By CONOR KELLY sports writer
on a weekend when irish senior goaltender steven summerhays was on top of his game, it took two crazy deflections for merrimack to get the puck past him. but the two scores were enough for the warriors (3-6-1, 0-3-1 hockey east) to salvage a 2-2 tie with the no. 4 irish (8-3-1, 2-1-1) on saturday night at compton Family ice arena.
merrimack freshman forward vinny scotti erased a 2-1 irish lead with just 1:06 remaining in the game to rob notre dame of a weekend sweep after the irish took the first game of the series 4-0 on Friday.
“The way it finished obviously [was disappointing],” irish coach Jeff Jackson said. “both their goals were bounces, and that’s what makes it tough. i thought that given the circumstances our guys played pretty well.”
The limits of notre dame’s forward depth came into play as the irish were forced to skate just three lines for most of the game, with regulars freshman vince hinostroza, sophomores steven Fogarty and Thomas dipauli, and senior michael voran all out with injuries. notre dame controlled the play for the game’s first two periods, outshooting merrimack 2512, but the warriors upped their play in the third and outscored the home team 14-6 over the final 20 minutes.
“They’re playing four lines, and we’re playing three,” Jackson said. “it’s inevitable that you’re going to get a little tired, but i thought that for the most part our guys handled it really well. Third period they picked it up and started being more aggressive with their defensemen that tired us out a little bit.” irish senior defenseman shayne Taker opened the scoring on the power play in the first period, rifling a wrist shot through a screen past merrimack junior goaltender rasmus Tirronen, and senior forward T.J. Tynan extended it to 2-0 in the second on a great individual effort.
w hile killing a penalty, Tynan picked the pocket of a merrimack defenseman and beat two more
warrior players to the net, sliding a backhand under Tirronen’s pads.
“The positive for us is that we scored a power play goal and we scored a shorthanded goal,” Jackson said. “The penalty kill killed off penalties, and special teams kept us in the game tonight.”
The warriors narrowed the lead to a goal late in the second when sophomore forward clayton Jardine one-timed a shot from the point that deflected off a notre dame defender and up and over summerhays. still down by a goal late in the third, the warriors pulled Tirronen with 2:06 remaining for an extra attacker, and the move paid off as a series of blocked shots resulted in scotti finding an open net with just over a minute remaining.
“The fact that were up 2-1 with that situation, i’d take it again,” Jackson said. “we had two blocked shots on that, and the puck bounced right to their open guy.” neither team mustered strong chances in the overtime period, leaving the game in a tie. on Friday, summerhays stopped all 31 shots merrimack sent his way in leading notre dame to the 4-0 win. Freshman forward ali Thomas got the irish on the board in the second period with his first career goal, and two goals from junior forward peter schneider and a tally from sophomore forward mario lucia provided all the insurance summerhays would need.
“i think [the warriors] were just throwing everything they could on net,” summerhays said. “i think they saw some of the minnesota game tape and noticed that i gave up some bad angle goals, but i thought we really limited their quality scoring chances.”
The win was notre dame’s first home victory in a hockey east game, and the game began with a ceremonial puck-drop by hockey east commissioner Joe bertagna to mark the first hockey east game at compton.
The irish now sit fourth in the conference standings and will travel to no. 16 massachusettslowell next weekend.
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that. i think players that played with her felt it. you know, we kind of said `let’s do it for sky,’ and that didn’t work so well.”
s enior forward a riel braker scored the first point of the game with a free throw, and on the next play senior guard Kayla mcbride stole the ball from valparaiso sophomore guard Jessi w iedemann to set up a layup from sophomore guard Jewell l oyd. i n the next minute of play, layups by freshman forward Taya reimer, l oyd and freshman guard l indsay a llen put the i rish (30) up by nine.
“l indsey did a really great job of pushing the ball,” mc graw said. “she and Jewell were really the sparks offensively, especially early in the half when we really needed to get going, so i am really pleased with both of them.”
but the c rusaders did not cave in immediately. w iedemann dropped in two 3-pointers, and sophomore guard a bby dean added another to keep the score a manageable 15-9. valparaiso stayed within striking distance until a three from junior guard madison c able stretched the i rish lead to 13 with 6:38 remaining in the first half. c able’s basket was the first in an 18-6 i rish run that brought the score to 46-24 at halftime.
b y the opening minutes of the second half, it was clear the c rusaders (0-3) had run out of gas. The i rish scored the first 12 points of the period and dominated the rest of the game, stretching their lead to 50. a fter the game, valparaiso coach
Tracey dorow said her team has struggled just to find enough healthy players to put on the floor. o nly nine c rusaders played s aturday, and the only one who played less than 13 minutes was Jazmin Taylor, a high jumper on the track team who agreed to play basketball just a few days earlier.
“it was definitely a learning experience,” valparaiso junior forward sharon Karungi said.
“They are really athletic and it was great to play against such athletic players. They definitely had the upper hand on the inside and had a lot of players that were bigger than us but it gives us a great chance to learn.”
mc graw gave the transition game much of the credit in s aturday’s win.
“i thought it was the best our transition game has looked,” mc graw said. “ we really were running the floor well. we were rebounding well and getting the ball down the court. i was really pleased with that, it was an emphasis coming out of the half. we really wanted to get on the scoreboard early. defensively, we came up with some steals and that was a big key for us.”
l oyd led all scorers with 22 points, while a llen scored 15, a career high.
“[ l oyd] is really doing a good job on both ends, offensively and defensively,” mc graw said. “she isn’t settling for shots and is attacking the basket. but she is in there fighting for rebounds all of the time. even if she doesn’t get it she is in there trying to tip it to a teammate. she is a lot more aggressive, looking to score and we need her to do that. she drives it, she shoots the three and she’s really hard to guard because you just don’t know what she is going to do.”
s enior forward l iz horton scored 11 points and was the only c rusader in the double-digits.
a s far as box-score oddities, reimer, a post player, finished the game with six assists, while guards a llen and l oyd combined for five. l oyd, however, grabbed seven rebounds, while reimer corralled just one.
“i n the p rinceton offense the person in the post, Taya, has the ball in her hands a lot and she is going to get a lot of assists,” mc graw said. “six assists for her is fantastic. i would like to see her rebound a lot more, though. i was disappointed in her rebounding today. she definitely needs to get on the boards more.”
valparaiso coach Tracey d orow said she and her players watched d iggins induction ceremony before the game.
“it’s a really neat thing for her. i worked at notre dame camp when she was a camper in about seventh or eighth grade and you could see even then that she was something special,” d orow said. “i was really excited to be here and to be a part of the celebration. she’s a real class act. This was big for women’s basketball.”
The i rish have a nearly weeklong layoff before they head to philadelphia to face penn in The palestra at 3 p.m. s aturday.
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sophomore midfielder patrick hodan and senior defender andrew o’malley scored for notre dame in regular time, and cavaliers sophomore midfielder
Todd w harton (penalty kick), sophomore forward marcus salandy-defour and freshman forward nicko corriveau found the net for virginia.
control of the game shifted between the irish and the cavaliers as the goal total mounted. “a couple of times there were momentum shifts,” clark said. “we were up by two goals and given a penalty kick. if that goes in, that’s three goals and a bit of safety. [virginia’s] first goal was a big boost for them as a team, definitely a psychological boost for their team because it brought them within reach. w hen we got the third goal, we were winning 3-1 with eight or nine minutes to go and you thought that would have been the difference.”
Three of the game’s six goals came in the final 10 minutes of regular time as virginia mounted a comeback. o’malley’s goal put the irish up 3-1 in the 81st minute, but the cavaliers responded
with goals in the 85th and 87th minute to force overtime.
“we’ll see them as lucky breaks, and they’ll see them as created opportunities, but that was the way the game fell,” clark said.
it was not the first time the cavaliers felled the irish this year, as virginia handed notre dame its only loss of the regular season on oct. 26. The irish have allowed only 0.57 goals per game for the season, but the cavaliers managed to score two goals in the first meeting and netted three Friday. virginia is the only team to score multiple goals in a game against notre dame this season.
The irish struck first with shipp’s goal in the 21st minute, and notre dame held the advantage with a 2-0 lead at halftime. sophomore midfielder connor Klekota passed the ball ahead to shipp who chased it into the box and shot the ball to the left of cavaliers redshirt junior goalkeeper calle brown for a goal. hodan then scored nearly 24 minutes later to extend notre dame’s lead to 2-0 shortly before the break.
virginia found its stride in the second half, however. w harton
converted a penalty kick in the 57th minute, and the cavaliers turned up the heat in the closing minutes of regular time. salandydefour and corriveau sparked virginia’s comeback with their late goals and evened the score by the end of regulation.
after two scoreless periods of overtime, the game came down to penalty kicks. shipp converted for the irish, but brown saved shots from Klekota and hodan to set the irish back. The cavaliers held on to secure the 4-3 penalty-kick advantage and win the match.
clark attributed the loss to a combination of virginia’s skill and irish mistakes.
“There are a few things we can certainly improve on,” clark said. “virginia is a good team. They have very good attacking players who are very talented, so you have to give them credit for that, but at the same time we have to look at ourselves and see what we can do better.”
The first round of the ncaa Tournament begins Thursday, and tournament seedings are announced today.
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her onto the court for the induction and remained by her side throughout the ceremony. The s outh b end native said she chose to attend n otre d ame to remain close to her familial support system for four more years.
“They’re a major, major part of the reason i stayed [in s outh b end],” she said. “ i wanted them to be a part of my college experience. n otre d ame is a great university, and it sells itself, but my family was a big reason why i stayed around and stayed closed to home. … i t’s just great having a tightknit family and people that are there for you to keep you grounded.”
The four-time a lla merican and the only n otre d ame player to pick up 2,000 points, 500 assists and 500 rebounds in her career joined former i rish legends r uth r iley, a ustin c arr, a drian d antley and l uke h arangody in the r ing of h onor.
“ i join such an elite group of players who have done so much for our basketball programs here at the u niversity,” d iggins said. “ i ’m so blessed to be a part of such an elite
group.”
a s with the other members of that group, d iggins’s basketball career did not stop with her time at n otre d ame.
The Tulsa s hock drafted her with the third overall pick in the 2013 wnba d raft, and d iggins earned a spot on the league’s all-rookie team after her first season. h owever, she said she still is not sure what the future holds for her.
“ i want to do so many things, and not just on the basketball level,” she said.
“ i ’m working on a lot of things now. i don’t know what i want to do because i want to do so much. … [ i ’m] just slowly painting my masterpiece.”
o ne thing is certain: as long as p urcell p avilion stands, d iggins’ n o. 4 will hang in the rafters, reminding players, fans and visitors of one of the most accomplished athletes in n otre d ame history.
“ i never wanted to leave this university,” d iggins said to the crowd at the ceremony.
“ i grew up always wanting to come here, and i lived in this gym. i never wanted to leave this gym. i wanted to be here forever. a nd now i have that opportunity.”
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three-point deficit into a 10-point lead.
“They hit a lot of shots,” senior guard Jerian grant said. “They’re a really good team. we just got to keep focusing in defensively. when teams go on a run like that, we can’t just stop playing.”
sophomore guard Khristian smith spurred the sycamores during the run, scoring all nine of his first-half points during the spurt. he finished with 15 points on 6-of-11 shooting.
“it creeps into our minds that ‘we can do this. we can do this,’” smith said. “we know that we can, but it takes the first four minutes of energy and effort to show we can.”
in the first half, indiana state buried eight of 17 3-pointers, five during a 2:37 stretch, and built up a 10-point lead by the break. The sycamores shot 55 percent (11-for-20) from behind the arc for the game.
“They’re not larks,” brey said. “These guys can shoot the ball, and they were really loose shooting in here.”
Keyed by 10 points off five indiana state turnovers, the irish opened the second half with a 15-4 run.
notre dame took the lead when sophomore forward austin burgett converted on an and-one opportunity with 15:06 left in the second half. it was notre dame’s first lead since 5-4 early in the first half.
but the irish lead lasted just 21 seconds.
picking up on the scrap ball and making sure i got the ball into the net.”
a ndrews’s two first-half goals helped n otre d ame climb out of an early deficit. The i rish fell behind in the fifth minute of action when i owa junior defender m elanie p ickert launched a penalty kick past n otre d ame freshman goalkeeper Kaela l ittle to put the h awkeyes (15-7-1, 5-5-1 b ig Ten) on the board.
“ i thought the reaction to the [ i owa goal] was great,” waldrum said. “ we were on top of it early. i thought we were really good tonight, especially with our ball possession and the opportunities we created. i felt like if we could get the first one back in the first half, it would be okay.”
The h awkeyes managed only three more shots after p ickert’s early goal, as n otre d ame largely controlled possession and kept the ball in i owa’s half of the field. n otre d ame outshot i owa 32-4 and held a 13-2 advantage in shots on goal.
h opefully, we can now build on that and keep it going.”
n otre d ame reversed its recent trend of second-half struggles when Tucker added a goal in the 53rd minute to give the team a 3-1 lead.
The senior captain received the ball on the far side of the field and beat a few i owa defenders before firing in a shot from 13 yards out.
“we knew that they were going to respond,” senior guard eric atkins said. “it’s a game of runs. we made our run, and they made their run to take the lead right back. we didn’t respond after that, and that’s what hurt us right there.”
indiana state responded with a 22-6 run. six different indiana state players scored during the spurt. The 15-point sycamore lead was the largest of the game for the visitors, and the irish never got closer than eight points the rest of the way.
“we kind of let up a little bit,” grant said. “we felt like, after we took the lead, this was our game. we had to keep playing, and you saw what happened.”
Junior forward Justin gant led indiana state with 17 points as the sycamores had five players in double-figures.
grant scored 17 points, while junior forward pat connaughton had 16 for the irish.
atkins led notre dame with 18 points and became the 54th player in school history to score 1,000 points in his career.
last season, indiana state knocked off two ranked teams ( wichita state and creighton) and the eventual acc champion (miami).
“you could say i should have my head examined to schedule them third game of the year,” brey said.
The irish will look to bounce back Friday night when they take on santa clara at 9 p.m. at purcell pavilion.
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“ i think getting more numbers in the attack and getting a little more balance in our midfield helped [our offense] out quite a bit,” waldrum said. “ we needed to try to find a way to start scoring a few more goals.
“ we’ve been dancing around these one-goal games in the acc for this last month it seems like, and we’ve had trouble hanging onto that lead, so i think it was important that we got that second goal to put a little bit of cushion,” waldrum said.
n otre d ame sophomore defender Katie n aughton
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added an insurance goal in the 87th minute when she took sophomore defender b rittany von r ueden’s corner kick and headed a shot into the middle of the goal. w ith the victory, n otre d ame improved to 46-3 alltime in ncaa c hampionship games at home and 7-0 alltime in ncaa c hampionship games at a lumni s tadium. n otre d ame will advance to play western m ichigan, who upset n o. 8 m arquette, 1-0, in its first-round game, in the second round of the ncaa c hampionship. The i rish and b roncos (12-5-5, 7-2-2 mac ) will meet Friday at 4 p.m. in a nn a rbor, m ich.
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Men’s baskeTball | indiana sTaTe 83, noTre dame 70
By MATTHEW DeFRANKS a ssistant managing e ditor
The last time notre dame lost in november at home, bob davie was the football coach.
Three football coaches later, the no. 21 irish fell to indiana state 8370 on sunday afternoon at purcell pavilion. The loss was the first in november at home since 1998 and the first such defeat under coach mike brey.
“i guess it has to come to an end,” brey said. “They’re really a good team. it would have been a good résumé win for us.”
The loss also snapped a 30-game
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non-conference home winning streak for the irish (2-1).
“some stuff hit the fan in midnovember,” brey said. “There’s going to be more stuff hitting the fan. how do we react?”
The irish turned the ball over 16 times in the game while only notching 13 assists. The sloppy performance was uncharacteristic of brey’s teams, who have finished in the top 10 in assist-to-turnover ratio in each of the last eight seasons.
The sycamores (2-1) jumped out ahead of the irish early after notre dame was unable to take care of the basketball. notre dame turned the ball over nine times in the first
half, including seven times in the first 8:34. at the under-12-minute media timeout, notre dame had as many points as it did turnovers.
“Those are just so deflating for a team that has, historically, taken really good care of the ball,” brey said. “The wind came out of the sails.”
The irish had seven turnovers total in each of their first two games. The sycamores turned the notre dame miscues into 13 points in the opening period.
indiana state used a 17-2 run over 11:58 in the first half to turn a
notre dame freshman midfielder morgan a ndrews has played a variety of roles for her team in her first collegiate season. on Friday night, she added a new one to her résumé — designated penalty taker. a ndrews converted notre dame’s first penalty kick of the season in the 38th minute and added another goal six minutes later to spur the i rish to a 4-1 victory over iowa in the first round of the ncaa c hampionship on Friday at
a lumni stadium. a fter i rish junior forward l auren bohaboy was fouled to set up the penalty kick, a ndrews left little doubt as to who would step up for notre dame (12-7-1, 7-5-1 acc ) against iowa sophomore goalkeeper hannah c lark.
“[a ndrews] was already raising her hand as she was walking from outside the penalty box to let everybody know she got it,” i rish coach r andy waldrum said. “we didn’t even have to say anything to the team to say, ‘l et morgan take it.’”
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a ndrews drove home a shot inside the right post to beat c lark, who dove toward the left side of the goal.
i n the 44th minute, the freshman took a feed from i rish senior defender e lizabeth Tucker and fought through several defenders to knock a shot into the lower right corner of the net.
“it was a great assist by Tucker, getting that ball into the box, and then it was just really a fight,” a ndrews said of the goal. “i think it was just
By SAMANTHA ZUBA sports writer
no. 12 virginia knows how to cause trouble for the no. 1 irish. The cavaliers knocked notre dame out of the acc championship with a semifinal win on penalty kicks Friday in campus park, md. after battling through regulation and two overtimes in a 3-3 tie, virginia (11-4-4, 5-3-4 acc) converted four penalty kicks to three
for the irish (12-2-5, 7-2-3). both sides played well and made the game exciting, irish coach bobby clark said.
“it was a terrific soccer game,” clark said. “it was a terrific example of college soccer, with two teams trying to win it. when we went ahead, they fought really hard to get back in the game and pressured hard.”
irish senior forward harry shipp,
By MARY GREEN s ports w riter
The lights dimmed, the spotlight turned on and n otre d ame’s biggest star returned for one last encore as s kylar d iggins claimed her spot in the i rish r ing of h onor on s aturday at p urcell p avilion.
b efore her former team tipped off against valparaiso, d iggins was honored in the pregame ceremony, which included a video of her highlights during her college career, congratulations from athletic director Jack s warbrick and several standing ovations. The loudest applause of all came when the banner with d iggins’ n o. 4 unfurled from the p urcell p avilion rafters, the apex of the ceremony.
“That’s something i dreamed about,” d iggins said in her pre-ceremony press conference. “ you dream about stuff like this happening. i t’s not a goal, ultimately. you just kind of play the game to win, to be competitive and to represent n otre d ame the best that i could, and [represent] s outh b end and my family.
“ b ut the experiences i had here were so special, and the memories we made here, what we were able to accomplish, is so special, so this does not only represent myself, but also my family and my teammates and coaches and those that paved the way before me.”
d iggins’ parents, r enee and m aurice s cott, escorted
ND pulls away after slow start
By VICKY JACOBSEN sports writer
it took two minutes and 20 seconds for the no. 6 i rish to score their first field goal of the game s aturday, but valparaiso never recovered from the ensuing 9-0 run and the i rish grabbed the win, 96-46. i rish coach muffet mc graw blamed the scattered play of the first few minutes on the pre-game induction of former guard skylar d iggins into the r ing of honor.
“no more emotional pregame ceremonies. we got off to such a slow start. i thought it was the emotion of the day that was the problem,” mc graw said. “i needed a tissue after