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Fall Reception
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McGlinn Hall benefactor dies
By COURTNEY BECKER news e ditor
University trustee emeritus and benefactor of m cGlinn h all
Terrence J. m cGlinn died s ept. 12, the University announced in a press release Thursday. m cGlinn was 77.
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In addition to serving as a member of the b oard of Trustees, m cGlinn was also a University Fellow, a member of the advisory council for the m endoza c ollege of b usiness and a n otre d ame graduate of the class of 1962.
According to the press release, the University presented m cGlinn with an honorary degree in 2004 for combining “his 50 years of personal perspective on n otre d ame with sharply honed professional expertise” to benefit n otre d ame.
m cGlinn rector s ister m ary Lynch said m cGlinn remained committed to m cGlinn h all and its residents since the hall’s opening.
“Terry m cGlinn loved the women of m cGlinn, and was always excited to hear any news about the things we did and the accomplishments that we achieved, and was absolutely very generous to us,” she said.
“I mean everybody here always remembers his c hristmas gifts every year.”
In addition to being the hall’s benefactor, Lynch said m cGlinn was also a true friend.
connection with us,” she said. “That, to me, was significant. h ow much he connected and wanted to know and wanted to hear about what we were doing.”
o utside of n otre d ame, m cGlinn was a general partner of the private investment partnership Walnut s treet Associates, worked with several other limited partnerships and was generous with his philanthropic work, according to the press release.
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“Terry was a beloved member of the n otre d ame family, a wise and trusted adviser and a generous benefactor,” University President Fr. John Jenkins said in the press release. “We mourn his passing, and we hold b obbie, their children, other family members and his many friends in our prayers.”
“I used to enjoy just talking to him — and we could talk for 40 minutes to an hour about all kinds of things,” she said. “ h e was always excited to hear that we had won the Kelly c up, and also any of the teams that would reach the championship points or whatever. h e was always thrilled to hear about that, as well as the other accomplishments — sports weren’t just the only thing.”
m cGlinn’s effort to be involved in the hall community made an impact on the dorm, Lynch said.
“ h e always made a strong
m cGlinn is survived by his wife, b arbara ( b obbie), and their four children — all of whom are n otre d ame graduates, according to the press release.
m cGlinn’s family will receive friends at Kuhn Funeral h ome in West r eading, Pennsylvania, on s unday from 4 to 7 p.m., according to the press release, and the funeral will be at s t. Ignatius Loyola c hurch on m onday at 10 a.m.
Sports Editor Elizabeth Greason contributed to this report.
Contact Courtney Becker at cbecker3@nd.edu
TRiO hosts eighth annual Fr. Ted’s Walk, Run
By SOFIA MADDEN news Writer
Trio, an organization dedicated to improving the south bend educational community, will host the eigth annual Fr. Ted’s 5K Walk, 5K and 10K — named for University President emeritus Fr. Theodore hesburgh — on saturday. all students are invited to participate in the event, which will provide supplemental resources to students of Trio’s two notre dame chapters, Upward bound and Talent search, ethan Zagore, director of Trio Programs said.
Zagore said both programs dedicate their resources to college preparation services for low income and first generation high school students in south bend.
“The two programs are completely separate divisions, yet they both facilitate growth in college readiness levels for high schoolers in the broader south bend area,” he said.
Upward bound serves 104 high school students from four schools, Zagore said, all of whom receive the opportunity to benefit from a variety of academic resources.
“once a week, the students come to notre dame’s campus and receive standardized test preparation, academic workshops hosted by notre dame students and one-on-one mentoring and tutoring sessions with on-site
Trio staff,” he said.
he said Upward bound also finances four college tour trips and a summer session for additional college preparatory services.
“exposure to many different universities is very important for our students, because it gives them concrete goals to work toward,” Zagore said. “We can tutor students all day, but if there isn’t a visible incentive to strive for, it’s very difficult for them to understand the purpose.”
Talent search, the second Trio program funded through notre dame, serves a much larger scale of students in south bend. With 899 students spanning grades six through 12, Zagore said Talent search participants can choose to join the program at any time.
“our Talent search staff travels to each school we provide services for, offering workshops that teach time management skills, college application prep and enhanced writing capabilities,” he said.
Zagore said notre dame students are always encouraged to volunteer as tutors for both Upward bound and Talent search.
“students at notre dame who tutor for us develop a dual role as both friend and mentor for our students,” he said. “notre dame students form peer relationships with our students and simultaneously watch them grow in their academic skill set and educational
aspirations.”
nijinsky dix, assistant director of Trio programs, leads race day relations, and explained that the race itself emulates Trio’s greater values and goals.
“The ‘i’ in the organization name ‘Trio’ is lowercase because we believe that in order to spread good, it is necessary to remove the ‘i’ — or the self — from importance,” she said. “instead, we must emphasize everything else that surrounds the community. This line of thinking will ultimately create a positive effect that outsizes each of us as individuals.”
Zagore said hesburgh initiated the Trio programs at notre dame in 1966 — only one year after the department of education’s national launch of the program in 1965.
“When Father hesburgh ushered in the Trio programs, it was not a popular decision,” he said. “he was a visionary and made decisions purposefully to encourage the progression of racial and socioeconomic status.”
The Fr. Ted race commemorates the mark hesburgh left on both notre dame and south bend educational standards, Zagore said.
“Without Father Ted, Trio at notre dame would not be in existence,” he said.
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of [their] advice and support in how to confront some of these ethical and pedagogical challenges.”
s apra, who previously taught at the c ollege, said she wanted to provide some context for the changes she has witnessed in higher education because of Trump’s presidency.
“i see intensification of attacks on media news and the rise of fake news stories,” s apra said. “There seems to be this developing narrative on the right that cast some doubt on the worth of colleges in general, particularly liberal arts colleges and universities — the value of engaging in liberal arts study.”
This falls under the narrative of calling any news one dislikes “fake news,” s apra said.
“o ur president has done this several times,” she said. “a ny news story that he doesn’t like, he refers to as fake news. o r any news source he doesn’t like [he] calls fake news sources.”
i n order to combat the issue of “fake news,” s apra said she has incorporated media literacy into all of her courses, with the hope of teaching students how to navigate available information and find what is true.
s apra said she has also seen an intensification of attacks on professors.
“This was always something that groups did, but i also feel like it has become more intense
under donald Trump, so there are various organizations … where they look at faculty syllabi, they look at speeches that faculty are making in the classroom,” she said. “The mission is to be a watch dog to the nation’s higher education system to expose liberal bias.”
s ara said there is a number of websites like this that post about professors.
“i bring this up because a lot of their stories get picked up by Fox news,” she said. “When it gets picked up by Fox news, it goes on to get picked up by white nationalist groups or altright groups. There seems to be this amplification that occurs because of student activism.”
s apra said she wanted to students to be aware of a resource called the s outhern Poverty Law c enter, which offers support for students in the event that alt-right groups come to college campuses.
Professors have a responsibility to combat injustices in the classroom, s apra said.
“one might say we’re taking too much of a partisan stance if we do, but i think of it more as laying out the groundwork or ground rules for knowledge and discovery and then faithfully applying those principles,” she said. “it is not only our responsibility in the classroom, but it is also the duty of the administration and the college as a whole to not waver on certain fundamental values.”
Contact Nicole Caratas at ncaratas01@saintmarys.edu
with a lecture on sept. 21 titled “agnostic harmony and Transformation.” a fter four other events — including a special lecture with the a rchbishop of Los a ngeles and a musical performance by a Grammy awardwinning c hicano band — the campus-wide celebration will end on oct. 12 with a theatrical performance centered on environmental justice in central a merica, the website said.
“by showing how many different events our i nstitute is sponsoring, we’re hoping to influence the University to consider formally acknowledging and celebrating h ispanic heritage month next year and for the foreseeable future,” Fraga said. “We think the University would be very supportive of this effort.”
With about 11 percent of notre dame undergraduates identifying as Latino or h ispanic and the group’s growing presence both on campus and nationally, Fraga said he sees i L s’ celebration of the month as the “start of a tradition” he finds consistent with the origins of notre dame.
“notre dame was established to ensure that all communities, and particularly catholic working-class immigrant communities, were able to take full
advantage of the opportunities that existed in the United states,” Fraga said. “Today the largest group of immigrant, predominantly catholic communities in the United states are Latinos, so we see this as entirely consistent with the entire mission and call of notre dame.”
i L s’ communications specialist evelyn Gonzalez said the events will be open to all who are interested in attending.
“We’re assuming most of our audience are going to be from the notre dame community, but we are actually reaching out directly to the local high schools, local parishes and Latino community in general,” Gonzalez said.
senior Gregory Jenn, president of the Latino student a lliance, said he believes the i L s-hosted events are a wonderful representation of how rich the roots of Latino culture are.
“i regard celebrating h ispanic heritage month as an essential component of being a Latino student on campus because i am able to share what i am most proud of with the wider community at large,” Jenn said. “it’s a way to construct a dialogue that is necessary for the continued cultural, spiritual and academic growth of the University.”
Contact Kelli Smith at ksmith67@nd.edu
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Guadalupe Gonzalez, a daca student from mexico, said her status and the uncertainty surrounding her future have shaped her college experience.
“ … specifically for me, i know if i go out and party, police might come,” Gonzalez said. “i don’t want to be in any sort of position where, as an undocumented student, i’m going to be arrested for some reason or another … because it can go into my file, and it can hurt me from receiving daca.”
Though she has encountered supportive peers, Gonzalez said she has also been exposed to tensions and judgment.
“You just learn to live around that fear, around that hatred,” she said. “You try not to let it affect you as much as you can.”
hasty generalizations wrongfully denigrate the character of worthy daca recipients, she said. one false belief she said she sees propagated involves daca’s lack of a pathway to citizenship. she said the only way she can currently obtain citizenship is to marry.
“my status is tied to a man,” she said. “The only possible way that i can get any sort of citizenship right now is if i marry a u s. citizen.”
daca students deserve the opportunity to bring their skills and talents to fruition, she said.
“You’ve already invested in us, and you just want to kick us out before we’re able to actually give back to the government in taxes and all the work we do in labor,” she said.
The idea of daca students moving to a nation about which they know nothing startles her, Gonzalez said.
“if i were to decide where my
allegiance is, i don’t know what mexico is going to do with me,” she said. “at least i know sort of what america is. america doesn’t really like me right now, but i know it. it’s all i know.”
dispelling misconceptions surrounding the daca program can help establish a more knowledgeable and inclusive society, Gonzalez said.
“it’s actual human lives, not illegal lives that you don’t care about or somebody that you don’t consider american,” she said. “We’ve been here for so long. We’ve worked here. We’ve contributed. We’ve created homes, families, communities. We are american. We just don’t have any papers.”
Hoping things work out
Kevin Perez, a junior daca student at notre dame who was born in mexico and emigrated to the united states when he was five years old, said his daca status alleviates some of the worry associated with being undocumented.
“it was a huge relief, not having to worry about it day-to-day and being able to do things i couldn’t before — like get my driver’s license, get a job,” he said.
While Perez is concerned, he said he still has hope that congress will create a feasible replacement for daca
“i’m just hoping things work out,” he said. “up to this point they have with daca and allowing us to get jobs, to get driver’s licenses, come to a college.”
if the administration repeals daca without any alternative in place, Perez said, americans can expect “a lot of negative things.”
“Probably a lot of increased deportation and separation of families, because if daca is not there then i feel like immigration
services will be very empowered to do all that they can to work against undocumented people,” he said. a common misconception about daca recipients Perez said he hears often is that they are a “drain on the economy.”
“i know for a fact that i paid more taxes than some citizens last year,” he said. “ … There’s a lot of misconceptions around that of people that say undocumented people and daca people get all these free benefits and that could be going to citizens. i hear that a lot, which is not true because if you’re undocumented you’re not eligible for any benefits.”
The university administration, Perez said, has been particularly helpful to him and other daca students.
“They’ve just been very supportive about it,” he said. “Which gives me confidence that if something were to happen in the six months where we have nothing … i still feel confident that they’d do their best to help us finish our education here.”
stand in solidarity
a senior undocumented student born in mexico and enrolled at saint mary’s, who spoke to The observer under the condition of anonymity out of concern for her safety, said she was overwhelmed by the supportive messages community members sent her.
“i really appreciate the faculty members who have posters outside of their doors that have the signs saying, ‘i support daca’ because i know i’m welcome there,” she said.
Though she does not belong to the daca program, she said the
presidential administration’s decision to terminate it affects her on a personal level.
“students like me have been here our whole lives in this country, so i think we deserve to have a career,” she said. “We’ve worked hard to obtain that, so i think we deserve to keep living without fear of being deported.”
she said concerned members of the community should also voice their disapprobation to policymakers, which can not only influence legislation but can also foster an increasingly united society.
“if you call your representatives, they will definitely take into account what their constituents think is right, and that can have a push on their opinion,” she said. “it’s nice to not feel like you’re fighting this battle alone.”
s omething to contribute
a junior daca student born in india, who spoke to The observer under the condition of anonymity out of concern for his safety, said he and his family came to the country legally on an “employment-based” visa.
“my dad had a job offer here,” he said. “he worked there for a while, but then his employer changed ownership. so another guy took over the company, and the new guy said that he wouldn’t continue my dad’s work visa.”
While his daca status added “an extra level of reassurance,” the student believes he is safer than most undocumented people in the united states because it was be “bad optics” for the government to deport him.
“i don’t think anyone here is a
priority for deportation,” he said. “ … That said, what it did give me was a sense of freedom.”
This sense of freedom was strongest, the student said, in terms of his ability to work with daca status.
“i think without being able to use what i’ve learned here, and without even having the means to continue that, i won’t really have any purpose,” he said.
The student said the fact that he is at notre dame is emblematic of what he has to offer the country.
“i know that i have not worked or anything, but i think anyone would say, regardless of status or anything, that if you can get into a school like this you have something to contribute to society,” he said.
one silver lining the student said he sees in the deadline is that it forces congress to seriously consider the dream act — a more permanent alternative to obama’s executive order.
“ … as ironic as it might sound, donald Trump is the person that will probably bring it closest to being passed,” he said.
The student urged those who want to stand by and help daca recipients to call their representatives.
“You need to maintain activism to make sure this thing passes,” he said. “That’s the best thing you can do right now. Keep up the pressure, make sure that during these six months, people don’t forget about it.”
Contact Courtney Becker at cbecker3@nd.edu and Martha Reilly at mreilly01@saintmarys.edu
in fact, deJonge said, every single piece of apparel the players wear was distributed to them by the student managers.
The managers attend all three practices each week, and all hands are on deck for home games. on game days, managers report to the Guglielmino athletics complex in the morning with the players, and set up the field, pylons and drills, deJonge said. some managers work inside the locker room at halftime, she said, getting players replacements for ripped jerseys or malfunctioning cleats.
after the game, deJonge said, managers are responsible for helping clean the stadium as well as various equipment items such as shoulder pads.
“it’s been really fun being behind the scenes and seeing how the program comes together,” she said. “There’s so many things that i’ve learned about sports programs — especially football in general — that i never thought about going into gameday production.”
For most managers who happen to be fans of the sport, it’s a dream come true, deJonge said, and juniors and seniors get to travel to away games with the team.
Junior equipment manager ryan Green works as a ball boy for the opposing sideline on game days. he said he works with the referees about 15 feet ahead of play and always keeps an eye out for incoming players or coaches, with whom he’s had a few close calls.
“how hard the student athletes work isn’t something i had an appreciation for before my job,” Green said. “Though i need to be there for practice, they need to be there before practice for meetings. i need to memorize what coaches need for certain drills, they memorize entire playbooks. That’s what i’ve gained the most out of it. how ridiculously dedicated some of these kids are to playing football for notre dame.” beside standing on the sidelines during games, football equipment managers also have the opportunity to experience things they never have before, making the sacrifice of not tailgating more than worth it, Green said.
“i have one of the best seats in the house,” Green said. “during the Temple game, when Josh adams ran through for a touchdown on the second play of the game i was probably 20 feet away from him, and that was a surreal experience for me.”
Contact Marie Fazio at mfazio@nd.edu
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By MIKE DONOVAN
s cene Writer
The torrential snowfall reduces most of the shapes to a blank slate, but through the blizzard you can still make out a few. downtown Toronto’s angles and curves burst through the white spontaneously, then quickly fade. The skyline — a sleek and beautiful array of modern invention — has broken down to abstraction, a wistful tease of random images.
You awkwardly tug the hood of your parka over your oversized headphones and trudge down the street, each step sinking your unseasonable canvas shoes into a waterlogged state of disrepair. Frostbite seems a forgone conclusion. but none of this matters to you. The waveforms pulsating into your headphones — the sounds of Alvvays’ sophomore LP “Antisocialites” — have stripped you from the Toronto streets and locked you in a psychological hermitage.
Jim reid’s arc — the referential centerpiece of the track “Lollipop (ode to Jim)”— helps us position “Antisocialites” within indie-rock’s canonical framework. “Psychocandy” (1985), reid’s first album with The Jesus and mary chain, immerses infectious bubblegum pop under thick, intrusive layers of aural fudge, knocking both audiences and critics senseless. Twenty-nine years later, Alvvays released its own collection of fuzzy, bubblegum dream pop, sending the indie-rock community into a frenzy. both bands found themselves on a pedestal, facing the expectation of being the standard bearers of their respective genres. both must cope with the overwhelming shadow that their respective breakthrough singles (The Jesus and mary chain’s “Just Like honey” and Alvvays’ “Archie, marry me”) will undoubtedly cast on all future releases.
many bands, when placed in this precarious position, drop the ball on their sophomore effort (see: The stone roses’ “second coming”). other, truly virtuosic acts ride their fame
upwards to musical apotheosis (see: my bloody valentine’s “Loveless”). but reid and his spiritual twin, Alvvays frontwoman molly rankin, follow a middle path. “darklands” and “Antisocialites” — their respective sophomore records — refine their indie-pop roots without reaching for anything new. “We were hoping [“Alvvays” and “Antisocialites”] could sit side-by side-together, but still have a slight fidelity leap,” rankin told brooklyn magazine. she, like reid back in the ’80s, simply wants to write better pop songs.
The impact of “Antisocialites,” however, exceeds its status as a glossier “Alvvays.” The record’s musical and lyrical departures transport the listener to a new lovelorn destination. “Alvvays,” with its airy lo-fi guitar swells and deadpan vocal delivery, came straight from the cozy newfoundland coastal towns in which the band members grew up. It was, like the young band, hopeful and unkempt. “Antisocialites” trades the fuzzy, deadpan style of “Alvvays” for synthesizers and vocal fluidity to reflect Toronto’s shiny urbanity as well as the band’s maturing outlook.
The album’s early tracks invest wholeheartedly in the urban landscape, often criticizing the naivete of past locales. on “not my baby,” rankin defiantly declares: “no need to turn around and see what’s behind me / […] because I’m really not there,” lyrically placing her stake in the soft soil of closure. The heartrending synth and guitar melodies in the background, though, tell a different story — one of sadness and reluctance. The questions inherent to the harmonic undertones on “not my baby” come to a head on the next track, “hey,” when rankin asks “have you lost your sense of place?” of a protagonist found “blind drunk in an alleyway.” on the record’s b-side, the A-side’s subtle doubts develop into a full-on lamentation of urbanity.
The hook-laden “saved by a Waif” captures the emotional implications of the band’s geological transition. “new saturday / In the park, didn’t think you fell that hard,” rankin
sings of her protagonist, Adrian, who finds himself on a bend to “say something, waste something / change [his] life.” he looks for safety in “a waif and the weight [of his] wayfarers,” probably because it reminds him of past joys. Adrian then cuts his hair such that he “look[s] like a little boy once more” and chases nostalgia.
similarly, above the spare, guitar driven sobriety of “Already Gone,” rankin wonders whether, “If there were an ocean,” she’d “be wading into the distance” — even though she doesn’t think she “will ever find it again.”
The woefully direct ballad “Forget About Life” concludes the album with a painfully beautiful catharsis. It celebrates separation from the confusion of transition and the misery of social interaction. It returns the listener to the space between his or her ears, beneath the hood of the parka, ankle-deep in the slush, on the windy Toronto streets.
“Antisocialites” is also the hot bowl of udon, or the delicious taco, at the end of the icy street — comfort food for the hermetic urbanite.
Contact Mike Donovan at mdonov10@nd.edu
“Antisocialites”
Alvvays
Label: Polyvinyl
Tracks: “Forget About Life”
If you like: The Jesus and Mary Chain, Shop Assistants, The Pastels
By AUGIE COLLINS s cene Writer
For nika roza danilova, the musician behind Zola Jesus, “okovi” — her latest record — was not just the next step in her career, but a necessary life event. “okovi” came to life as danilova found herself submerged under layers of depression and darkness. The album’s cover showcases danilova’s depression, her face obscured by a murky viscous liquid that envelops all but her eyes. before “okovi” was produced, a close friend had just attempted suicide twice, another had been diagnosed with cancer and danilova’s own personal demons had been ever present. “okovi,” which is “a slavic word for ‘shackles,’” sees danilova turn inwards to reflect on the burdens by which we all are weighed down as we live day to day. For some, these burdens are manageable, but for others the struggle to carry on is much greater.
In order to start her work on “okovi,” danilova knew she had to remove herself from the waters she was drowning in. Unsurprisingly, she sought comfort in her rural, isolated hometown in Wisconsin, where she built a house deep in its woods. In an interview, danilova said: “The past few years I had been struggling with a deep depression. I was desperately craving roots and a sense of belonging. It wasn’t until I came back to Wisconsin that I finally realized my roots were exactly where I left them.” While nurturing her mental health, danilova realized that by turning her negative experiences into a helping hand for others, she too could enter a
more peaceful state.
“okovi” is overwhelmingly dark, both in its themes as well as in the instrumentation she employs throughout. drums pound, the orchestra plays its strings fervently and above it all danilova’s voice bellows like a war cry. danilova is a trained opera singer, and her voice commands attention with the power of a gale-force wind. remnants of Zola Jesus’ goth pop days are still very much present as well; the opening track “doma” starts off with chanted lyrics that conjure up images of an empty Gothic church where danilova performs alone, her voice echoing. At times the synthesizers form what seems like the soundtrack to an eerie horror film built upon suspense, as they whir, click and pulse. due to its heavy nature, “okovi” can start to drag the listener down, but the songs of hope threaded into the album’s tracklist make it more digestible. on “soak,” danilova sings from the point of view of a woman who has chosen to kill herself instead of being drowned by her murderer. speaking of the single, danislova said: “Through writing this song, the story evolved within me, and I saw how it mirrored my own feelings inside ... What’s the point of trying to navigate life if you don’t even get to choose how it ends?” The victim sings, “Take me to the water / Let me soak in the slaughter,” stripping her murderer of power and transforming herself into something that cannot be killed. The middle tracks are filled with questions about why we must endure the burdens we do. on “remains,” she wonders, “do ruins give power / or do they give proof / That something meant more / Than what
we lived through?”
While “okovi” does not provide a joyous ending, it does detail danilova’s acceptance of the fact that this is the way life operates and that we can only choose the way in which we deal with it. The album ends as though with a victory march with “half-Life,” marked by gorgeous orchestral work and a noticeably lighter tone to danilova’s voice. she takes the listener on a journey throughout “okovi,” and at the end she lends the very helping hand she needed in times of sorrow. danilova’s eyes shine through on her album cover to show that she has not been brought down yet, and that she hopes to pull the listener back up with her.
Contact Augie Collins at jcolli15@nd.edu
“Okovi”
Zola Jesus
Label: Sacred Bones
Tracks: “Exhumed,” “Soak”
If you like: Arca, Perfume Genius, Jenny Hval & Susanna
best late-night food options
Brian Boylen s cene Writer
It’s Friday night and you have worked up quite the appetite from all of the cup-based competitions you have participated in throughout the evening. You decide that it would be a wise decision to replenish the calories burned by getting a nice hearty meal before bed. but where should you go? south bend being the thriving metropolis that it is, your options are numerous. For this article though, I will focus on what I view as the five best spots.
1. Five Guys
Five Guys is the gold standard of late night food. There is nothing more delicious at that point than a greasy, juicy bacon burger with a side of fries. Inevitably you will order more fries than you can handle, providing an excellent opportunity to share and further deepen bonds made throughout the night. Five Guys also has options for those with a sweet-tooth, in the form of the always tempting milkshake. The many pros of Five Guys outweigh the only con, which is of course the price. A burger, fries and milkshake will run you over $10, so Five Guys is best used as the occasional treat for the financially challenged college student.
2. Taco bell
If price, convenience and conversation are what you value, then look no further — Taco bell is your man. centrally located on campus in the basement of LaFun, it is the perfect gathering place for students of any dorm. To call Taco bell merely a fast food place would be a grave reduction of its true significance. Taco bell is a social forum, filled with lively students always eager to discuss the pressing issues of the times. due to its popularity, it is uncommon to not see at least a couple of friends in line or gleefully consuming their crunchwrap supreme in one of the many booths. Furthermore, the staff has been hardened by many weekends of dealing with hordes of hungry students, and as a result their proficiency in their craft is truly unparalleled by any other restaurant’s work force. They can practically whip up your dish in the time it takes to fill up a water cup. The food is average compared to the other options, but for the low price and option to use flex points, not much more could be expected.
3. nick’s Patio
nick’s Patio may be the best option for those not concerned with costs or urgency. The breakfast food simply hits the spot late at night, and is only rivalled by Five Guys in terms of pure taste. Where nick’s Patio loses marks, however, is on its location. I’ll confess that I don’t actually know where it is, just that I need an Uber there and back to campus. With this in addition to the wait time for food, going to nick’s Patio can be a bit of a commitment. The eggs, pancakes, bacon and sausages certainly help make up for this but it is not enough to beat convenience and social atmosphere of T-bell.
4. blaze Pizza
I consider blaze a lesser Five Guys. They are both located on eddy street and are similarly expensive, but I simply would rather have a burger than pizza. blaze’s chief quality is the thrill of designing your own pizza. It is nice to have complete control over the process and to watch your creation go from uncooked dough to a glorious topping-filled pizza. I feel bad putting blaze near the bottom of the list, but it just doesn’t quite match its fierce competition.
5. reckers
reckers actually used to be my on-campus restaurant of choice before I recognized the superiority of Taco bell. The food is pretty good and diverse, but not good enough to justify the price hike compared to Taco bell. The location is nice being near main circle (and on the way to carroll for me). I really only have a couple gripes with it. The wait time for food can be excessive and it is no longer open 24 hours. That fact was truly reckers’ saving grace and the only thing that made it stand out from its competitors. closing at 3:00 a.m. on weekend nights isn’t unreasonable by any means, but I feel as if reckers has lost an intrinsic part of its nature. For a restaurant that was always advertised as a 24/7 spot to now close with the rest is simply disappointing. There is nothing wrong with reckers, it just no longer has any qualities to put itself above anywhere else.
Contact Brian Boylen at bboylen@nd.edu
The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
The story of my name
my name is hu Yizhi.
According to a traditional chinese belief, a wellchosen name brings a person good luck. my first name, Yizhi, often attracts attention because neither Yi nor Zhi has a concrete meaning. They serve the same function as “as” and “it” respectively in english, and are normally used in classical chinese.
“even though both Yi and Zhi by themselves do not have a meaning, when they are combined together, they mean ‘to live as an exemplar,’” my dad explained to me. With this understanding, I began to see my name as a constant driving force that always compelled me to live up to my parents’ expectations and be an exemplar for all.
In the years that followed, I grew to be proud of my name — a name that echoed through the loudspeakers at school because of good things I had done, a name that stood out from the chaotic classroom, followed by, “Would you like to help me with this math problem?” or “do you want to walk back home together?” I realized that even though my parents were the ones who designated a name with a specific meaning, it was ultimately me who enriched it.
I thought as long as I maintained my excellent performance, I would always be proud of my name — until the summer of 2015, the summer of my transition to college both as a first-generation university student and as an international student.
The freshman orientation led to a number of cultural confrontations. The very first one was as simple as the chants that we, 70-ish girls from the same dorm, mostly white Americans, were asked to repeat.
“Walsh loves sorin!”
“Walsh loves sorin. Walsh loves sorin. Walsh loves sorin,” echoed everybody, except for me. I embarrassingly looked around and then looked down. I recalled that back home, my parents and I seldom said “I love you” to each other even though we did deeply love each other. We expressed love through actions. The word “love” was so sacred that the one time I said “I love you” to my dad was when he suffered a serious stroke, and I was afraid that if I did not say it, I would never have the chance to do so.
how could I say “love” to people I did not know? I struggled to conform to the environment that I was in and to say “Walsh loves sorin” as a way of being friendly — but I failed: I could not open my mouth. I could not “betray” the cultural norms that I had abided the past 18 years.
From this experience, I developed a bitterness that changed my own view of my name, a name that no longer contained the connotation that I worked hard to instill. during one of the orientation games, we were divided into two groups. each group decided on a girl who would stand on one side of a curtain and attempt to shout out the other girl’s name as soon as the curtain was drawn — whoever got the other person’s name won. As our group was deciding who should go, I overheard one of the girls standing behind me: “That chinese girl should go. I bet nobody can get her name right.”
That was not the only time I heard comments about the difficulty my name brought to others. “oh, I don’t think I can say it correctly” and “oh? do you have an english name?” were among others that ultimately led to some people’s reluctance to even try to pronounce my name.
Upset at first, I was swiftly preoccupied with insecurity and discomfort about my cultural background and my name. “If my name is hard for people to say, it would be even harder to remember; it won’t ever called on campus, and nobody will become friends with me,” I thought. The conclusion that I ultimately drew was that “Yizhi” was an impediment to my American life, that only by foregoing it could I be fully blend in. Thus, I made the decision to go by “sarah,” an American name.
With an aim of minimizing the “negative effects”
that my chinese name might have imposed, I abandoned “Yizhi” as if it were a plague: I quickly changed my Facebook profile name, my name tag for all classes, and how I introduced myself. Ironically, “sarah” gave me a courage that Yizhi, a name that I proudly identified with for years, failed to generate. The conviction that “I have an American name that will make me a more acceptable friend to others” became an encouragement. As for Yizhi? It was a burden that was too foreign, too oriental and too much trouble.
As expected, “sarah” did turn my social predicament around: I found a niche where I belonged, and increasingly enjoyed what America offered me. Whenever people called me “sarah,” I could almost feel the affection they had for my name because it was American. In the meantime, I began to recognize and establish a sense of intimacy with it. but there were a number of times my American name also hurt me.
This came in the same way that my chinese name hurt me: through people’s comments. “so what is your real name?” was the most frequently asked question. however, it was not until I told my dad about my english name a few months later that brought about his wry remark — “now I can’t even pronounce my daughter’s name,” he said. his words woke me up from drowning in a swamp of skewed beliefs. Why did I relinquish a name that my most endearing parents gave me for the sake of convenience to people whom I did not know in the first place? Why did I abandon a name that was culturally and personally important to my identity for the purpose of integrating into a foreign culture? I had let several incidents drift myself away from my cultural background, and by renaming myself “sarah,” I had completely detached myself from my cultural and societal connections that had been so important to me.
I tossed and turned the nights on my bed after my dad’s comment, deciding whether or not I should return my name to “Yizhi.” deep in my heart, I longed to be called Yizhi, but was it worth the risk? Would people begin to pick up my chinese name? What if this decision leads to greater confusion? by the end of the christmas break of my freshman year, I decided to return to Yizhi and let things develop the way they would. my decision turned out to be a popular one — many of my friends hailed my chinese name and began to call me “Yizhi.” Later, many of my friends told me that “Yizhi” was not hard to pronounce at all, and that was already six months after I made the decision to abandon my name. I recalled the orientation week, when I got disoriented in an environment completely different from china and looked down upon myself; I also thought of the later time when I drew a sense of belonging from being “sarah.” but was it really the change of my name that made the transition smooth? or was it because I gained confidence and took the initiative to get to know people so that I eventually felt accepted? ever since I changed my name back to Yizhi, I actively promoted the understanding of different cultures through giving speeches and performing at Asian culture events at notre dame. In one of my speeches, I shared my renewed understanding of cultural identity. I used to think that the phrase “America is a melting pot” means that newcomers need to abandon their original culture and assimilate to the American one, and I thus shut myself completely from my own cultural background. but what is American culture? It is a combination of every one of the cultures that we bring to this great place. It is integration — a give-and-take process of cultural enrichment — rather than assimilation that makes everyone irreplaceable. As I was giving this speech, I recalled my dad’s words on how a combination of Yi and Zhi made my name complete. At that moment, I realized that just like my name has more than one part, it is exactly the different parts of me that make me complete. so long as I genuinely cherish all of myself, I will be an exemplar to all.
Yizhi Hu can be reached at yhu3@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Yizhi Hu show s ome skin
‘Foolish, cruel, un-American’
“Welcome home.”
Each year, students open a message to find those words — an introduction to a campus, a community and, most importantly, a family.
It’s a family that sticks together for much longer than four years. It’s a family made up of all different types of people, with different personalities, backgrounds and values. It’s a family with members that support one another.
Since 2014, Notre Dame has accepted undocumented students and welcomed them into this family. In the past four years, Notre Dame alone enrolled 62 students in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — otherwise known as DACA. Although it does not disclose an exact number for the safety of its students, Saint Mary’s has also accepted both undocumented and DACA students to its family in recent years.
This is their home.
After the Trump administration announced plans to stop granting protection under DACA — which allows children of migrants who live in the United States illegally to work and study — the weight falls on Congress. The president said Sept. 5 he would give the House and Senate a six-month period to pass legislation to replace the Obama-era executive order.
University President Fr. John Jenkins and College President Jan Cervelli have both made statements urging Congress to act, as DACA students — like all other students — provide valuable contributions to the campus community, bringing their own talents and perspectives.
“A decision to discontinue DACA would be foolish, cruel and un-American,” Jenkins said in a statement last week. “Foolish because it drives away talented people the country needs; cruel because it abandons people who have done nothing wrong and have known life only in the United States; and un-American because we have always
welcomed immigrants to our land of opportunity.”
These students — some of whom fear deportation for themselves or for their families — are our classmates, neighbors and friends. They face an uncertain and disconcerting future, unsure of what Congress might decide on or how the repeal of the program could affect their educations or jobs.
For instance, a Notre Dame junior from India — speaking on the condition that his name not be published due to concerns for his safety — said it was his DACA status that allowed him to land an internship last summer.
“I think, without being able to use what I’ve learned here and without even having the means to continue that, I won’t really have any purpose,” he said. “I’d probably be doing manual labor or something, whereas I am confident — and I think a lot of other people would say this, too — that I can do a lot more than that.”
The company has invited him to return for a second internship this May. He doesn’t know whether or not it will be possible.
This is foolish.
Notre Dame junior Kevin Perez is a DACA student who was born in Mexico. But having lived in the United States since he was 5 years old, he said he doesn’t identify with his birthplace.
“I think that there might be [U.S.] citizens that know more about Mexico than I do because they’ve gone there on trips recently, whereas I haven’t lived there in 16 years,” Perez said.
Saint Mary’s junior Guadalupe Gonzalez was also born in Mexico. But, at a young age, she came with her parents to the United States, where she’s grown up and attended school.
“I have patriotism for this country,” Gonzalez said. “Yes, I am Mexican, and I was born in Mexico. But I don’t know anything of Mexico.”
“America doesn’t really like me right now,” she added. “But I know it. It’s all I know.”
It isn’t that she doesn’t want to become an American citizen, Gonzalez said. Right now, it’s just an impossible
feat.
This is cruel.
In recent months, vitriolic rhetoric toward immigrants has increased, Gonzalez said.
“I’ve always known the U.S. didn’t really accept me or people like me, but I don’t like to think about it,” she said. “You just learn to live around that fear, around that hatred.”
In a country often described as a cultural “melting pot,” individuals from foreign nations have reported feeling increasingly unwanted and unwelcomed.
This is un-American.
But Congress has the power to fix it.
Students, faculty and staff have already been reaching out to their elected officials, asking them to argue for a lasting solution to this pressing problem. At a time where people across the country live in uncertainty and fear, expediency is critical. We cannot let politics or partisanship take precedence over thousands of lives and livelihoods. These people are not the inconsequential political pawns rhetoric and policy has tried to reduce them to.
Both Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s pledged to support DACA students in whatever way is necessary. And, so far, they have done just that. Cervelli said the College is providing free legal advice to any DACA student. Perez said the University has offered to help students pay the $500 renewal fee, fill out any forms and drive students to Michigan to complete fingerprinting required to renew DACA status.
We urge the members of these campus communities to follow the administrations’ leads.
We can call representatives and press for legislative action. We can organize or attend rallies. We can hang signs on our doors demonstrating our support. We can start conversations to help each other dispel misconceptions; to learn and understand by opening ourselves to new viewpoints and beliefs. We can support DACA and other undocumented students at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s.
Because they are our family. And this is our home.
Brooklyn reminiscing
Brooklyn Tech is among the more prestigious public high schools in the country, and one of New York City’s original three specialized magnate schools. Founded in 1922, the school was developed with the intention of fashioning young men into mechanical engineers. To that end, Tech has been highly successful. Tech boasts an array of proud alums, including astronauts, Nobel laureates, and CEOs.
Throughout its early history, however, the bulk of the student body would immediately join the war effort upon graduating. In fact, the tail gunner on the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped a “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, was an alum. Apart from being the sole defender of the 12-man crew, he was also the only photographer on board, making him the first man in history to witness and capture the harrowing, devastating power of the bomb. Clearly, I have a lot to live up too.
With a student body of approximately 6,000 kids, Tech is one of the largest high schools in the nation. The colossal size of the building, along with its mazy hallways and the immense volume of students, created the impression of being in an ant colony. Between classes, the stairwells would swell with countless bodies erratically speeding to their next class; colliding into each other
like particles swarming in primordial soup. And that is precisely what I was. An atom. Merely one among a multitude of cutthroat type-A’s willing to do anything to get the grade.
There was no school spirit. You cannot take pride in a football team named “The Engineers.” As incredibly diverse as the student body was (each class contained a member of every conceivable ethnic group and religious affiliation under the sun) the majority of students adhered to the same dogma: survive. Be the best at all cost, but if you can’t do that, at least survive.
Naturally, when I found out the senior yearbook costs a hundred dollars, I was ambivalent regarding whether to purchase it. On the one hand, I definitely wanted some sentimental token of all the friendships I had made. On the other hand, I probably knew five percent of the graduating class. I was not about to drop a hundred bucks for a book littered with faces I wouldn’t even recognize. So I did the fiscally responsible thing to do. I stole a roll of toilet paper from the basement boy’s bathroom and got people to sign that instead.
Besides the relatively cheap price, my yearbook had the added benefit of being somewhat poetic. Most of the praise people receive in their yearbooks is completely unwarranted. There is simply no way that a guy I have spoken to, maybe thrice, genuinely believes that I will go on to accomplish awe-inspiring humanitarian feats. Most of what these kids write is entirely disingenuous.
Might as well have them write it on a worthy canvas. I had very strict rules regarding the signing. Each person was allowed one sheet, unless I liked the kid. They had to use a ball point pen (to avoid tearing). And I tried to get signatures in bulk, since I would have to unroll everything each time someone wanted to write something, subjecting the potty scroll to potential lacerations and pollutants. I kept it locked in an airtight zip lock bag. Overall, I received an embarrassingly high number of signatures. Most of my teachers even signed it. Surprisingly, people expressed some heart-warming sentiments. Sure, there are plenty of lewd drawings and curse words adorning the two-ply pages of the book. But there are also sincere compliments, condemnations, psychological analyses and phone numbers. If anything, people were more candid on my yearbook than they would ever be, given a typical one. A Tibetan girl (who was really pretty I might add) even kissed it while wearing vibrant, hot pink lipstick, the imprint of her voluptuous, Buddhist lips forever encased in the two-ply roll of toilet paper. Eventually, I laminated the whole thing to ensure it survives the test of time.
Ariel is a junior from the Bronx, New York, living in Dunne Hall. Please send your invectives and snapchats to pdoming2@nd.edu.
The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Ariel Dominguez Solidarity
h appy b irthday: k eeping secrets will be in your best interest this year. Work diligently to prepare each move or change you want to make strategically. h aving solid plans in place and putting in the physical work required to ensure you are successful will also help you avoid making impulsive decisions or giving in to temptation and poor habits. your numbers are 7, 10, 21, 27, 36, 42, 48.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Troubles at home will mount if you overreact or show inconsistency. l ook inward and focus on being the best you can be instead of looking for fault in others. e xcessive behavior should be cut short. Protect what you have and love.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): s ize up whatever situation you face before you take action. you’ll be prone to overreact or be faced with someone who does. b ack away from risky ventures or people who are inconsistent and show signs of instability.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): l isten to what’s being said, but don’t feel the need to make a decision just because someone is pressuring you. d o your due diligence and check all your options before you make a change that could end up being costly.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): s hare your thoughts and clear up any problems that may surface due to your past actions. r efuse to make an impulsive decision or let anyone pressure you into something you don’t fully understand.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Take care of personal business. d on’t reveal information that infringes on your privacy. update documents that need to be addressed before they lapse. Physical improvements will help alleviate insecurity. d o what makes you happy.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Plan your actions carefully. d etail and precision should dictate how you plan to get ahead. d iplomacy and charm will help you avoid being asked questions you don’t want to answer. s how discipline when faced with tempting offers.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): b e careful how you ask others to do things. b eing insensitive will cause others to get the wrong idea or choose to back away from you. g ive everyone a chance to voice an opinion.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Take the initiative to organize and plan your day. use innovative ideas and utilize your strengths to ensure that you get the most out of whatever you pursue. Invest in your home and your professional status.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): negotiate on your own behalf. your ability to size up situations and bring the best alternatives to everyone’s attention will put you in a good position. b e truthful and you will accomplish what you set out to do.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Partnerships should be looked at seriously. c onsider the best way to protect your assets and your reputation. A heartto-heart talk with someone close to you will help clear up any misgivings you might have about moving forward with your plans.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Take the time to update documents that need to be renewed. Taking care of responsibilities at home and at work will help you ward off any problems with rules, regulations or the powers that be.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s a new day and a good time to revisit some of the issues you were faced with earlier in the week. Put pressure on someone you believe needs to step up and do his or her part.
Birthday Baby: you are kind, unique and intuitive. you are smart and convincing.
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Gameday should not go to n Yc
c ollege Gamed ay is a tradition that college campuses embrace and vie to bring to their homes every week.
And next week, Gamed ay is taking its show on the road to … Times s quare.
It’s a phenomenal selection, bringing it to perhaps the most exciting college football environment of the year. Imagine the possibilities — why limit yourself to just one campus when you can bring it a city that features multiple college football powerhouses?
It’s a rare opportunity to bring the diehard fanbases of new York University, Juilliard and John Jay c ollege of c riminal Justice together to feature into one show.
Why would es Pn and c ollege Gamed ay want to be anywhere else?
After all, a quick look at the alternatives reveals there couldn’t have possibly been a greater opportunity to celebrate what’s truly special about the college game (you know, the colleges themselves):
No. 20 tCu at No. 9 oklahoma state
A top-20 matchup? At the home of the bedlam rivalry? s ounds like a terrible option for c ollege Gameday.
The c owboys might be averaging 51.5 points per game through its first two contests, bowling through defenses to the tune of 572 yards per game, but who likes celebrating dominant offenses?
You know what’s even less attractive? When that offense meets an equally dominant defense. The horned Frogs might have allowed just one touchdown and less than 350 yards in its two games combined, but that matchup of strength versus strength can’t possibly create an exciting backdrop for a show dedicated to bringing people live to the most exciting places around on s aturdays — college campuses.
No. 25 uCL a at No. 19
stanford
hey Josh rosen, you don’t think school and football go together? Well, esPn apparently doesn’t think so either, so consider your opinion vindicated.
After all, the claim that the nc AA is a corrupt organization hell bent on profiting of its student athletes without compensating them is ridiculous. c ollege football is defined by the amateur status of its student-athletes, and
that’s precisely what c ollege Gameday celebrates every s aturday.
s o it only makes sense that they would take that celebration away from silly campuses — particularly one site that offers another top-25 matchup on the often forgotten West c oast in an e ast c oast dominated market like sports media — and bring it to the bright lights of the big Apple. It’s not like they’re going down the road from Wall street, which like the nc AA also doesn’t have the reputation of profiting off of other people. The parallel there would be too obvious.
s ome soccer game near p iccadilly Circus
This was arguably a close second for c ollege Gamed ay in the fourth week of the football season. What could possibly be better than Times s quare in new York? m aybe the equivalent across the pond.
After all, bringing Gamed ay to new York was all about celebrating the city’s rich history of college football and “modern-day fandom.” Piccadilly c ircus is in a country that has a rich futbol history itself, and it’s got enough big screens to show those games to fans right there. b ecause everyone knows that “modern-day fandom” is all about being able to watch the games on bigger and better T v screens, not actually being at the site of the games. m illennials ruin everything anyway, so why let them ruin the storied tradition of c ollege Gamed ay?
your local campus’ stepan Center
Well, every college campus has one, and the fact its on a college campus almost gave it the edge over Times s quare. They don’t call it c ollege Gamed ay for nothing, right? b ut alas, es Pn decided one venue without a nearby college football stadium just edges out another venue with one less than a mile away. Plus, everyone knows a college campus can’t host the “thousands of alumni [who] gather in the city” like Times s quare can.
s ome random suburban backyard
At least there would have been some football being played on site.
Contact Ben Padanilam at bpadanil@nd.edu
The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Walk-off win stretches
Indians’ streak to 22 games
Associated Press
clevel A nd — The cleveland Indians added a walkoff win to a streak that has had everything.
Jay bruce hit an rbI double in the 10th inning as the Indians rallied for their 22nd straight win to extend their Al record, beating the Kansas city royals 3-2 on Thursday night to move within four wins of matching the 1916 new York Giants for the longest streak in major league history.
After blowouts, shutouts and oh-so-easy wins, the Indians, who tied it in the ninth on Francisco lindor’s two-out, two-strike rbI double, went into extras for the first time to keep the longest streak in 101 years intact.
“This was probably the toughest one we’ve had,” bruce said.
ramirez led off the 10th with a hard hit into right-center off brandon maurer (2-2) that he turned into a double with a head-first slide. After edwin encarnacion walked, bruce, the recent arrival who hit a threerun homer in win no. 21 on Wednesday, ripped a 2-0 pitch into the right-field corner.
As Progressive Field shook like it usually does in october, bruce reached second base and was quickly mobbed his teammates, who doused him with ice water and talcum powder while tearing the front of his jersey.
“nothing like it, nothing like it,” bruce said.
These Indians aren’t stopping for anything.
down to their last strike in the ninth, the Indians rallied to tie it at 2 off closer Kelvin herrera, with lindor delivering his clutch shot
NfL | TexAns 13, benGAls 9
off the left field wall, just above the leap of four-time Gold Glove winner Alex Gordon, to score pinchrunner erik Gonzalez from first.
As lindor’s ball caromed off the wall and rolled slowly across the grass in left field, 30,874 fans who have watched the Indians overpower teams for the last three weeks, soon saw the Al central leaders pull off their most dramatic win this season.
The Indians entered the day tied with the 1935 chicago cubs for the second-longest streak, and now only trail those ‘16 Giants, who won 26 in a row — all at home.
The Giants won 12 straight, played a 1-1 tie, and then won 14 in a row. but because the tied game was replayed from the start the next day, it didn’t technically count and therefore didn’t stop new York’s streak.
Unlike many of cleveland’s game’s over the past three weeks, this one required a little late-innings work by the Indians, who have outscored their opponents 142-37 during this unimaginable run.
With one out in the ninth, pinch-hitter Tyler naquin singled to left off herrera, who then got rookie Francisco mejia to bounce into a force. but lindor, the blossoming superstar shortstop who has been cleveland’s best hitter throughout the streak, came through with his double.
cody Allen (3-6) worked the 10th and it wasn’t routine as brandon moss led off with a shot to the wall that naquin caught while pinned up to the bullpen fence.
on top of getting another win, the Indians also got top reliever
Andrew miller back.
The All-star came in to a rousing ovation in the seventh, and gave up a pair of bloop singles around a strikeout before getting an inning-ending double play. It was his first appearance since Aug. 21, when miller’s knee tendinitis flared up during an appearance against boston and he went on the dl for the second time. The left-hander will be brought back slowly by the Indians, who want to make sure he’s ready when the games become more meaningful in october.
Indians manager Terry Francona has been guarded in making comments about the winning streak. he didn’t want to make too much of it while his team makes another run at ending the Indians’ 68-year World series title drought. however, before the game he revealed that his father, Tito, an outfielder for cleveland in the 1960s, was excited, “and he doesn’t get very excited very often, so I thought that was kind of cool.”
Francona has also enjoyed seeing Indians fans react during a run they won’t soon forget.
“You set out to win every game, that’s the objective every time you show up,” he said. “but I do think it’s kind of cool, you hear cleveland a lot. If people are walking around with their chest out a little bit, I’m glad, because I like it here and I like the people here. so I think that’s maybe a byproduct of this. It’s not going to help you in the standings, but it’s good for cleveland. Anything like that, I think it’s terrific.”
cleveland has even more to be proud of now.
Watson leads wounded
houston offense to victory
Associated Press
c I nc I nn ATI — deshaun
Watson ran 49 yards for a touchdown in his first nFl start and led the houston Texans’ depleted offense to a late clinching field goal in a 13-9 victory over the cincinnati bengals on Thursday night.
Watson showed up in a black tuxedo for his first nFl start — it was his 22nd birthday, no less — and showed the flash that helped him lead clemson to a national title. he avoided the rush and ran 49 yards for a 10-3 lead late in the first half, dashing past befuddled
defenders.
The Texans (1-1) got the most out of their depleted offense, and then let their defense do the rest. The bengals (0-2) have failed to score a touchdown in their two games to open a season for the first time in their 50 seasons.
Watson led a 13-play drive that set up Ka’imi Fairbairn’s 42yard field goal with 1:56 left. The bengals got the ball two more times, but failed to cross midfield.
cincinnati lost to the ravens 20-0 at Paul brown stadium on sunday, the first time in their history that they opened the season blanked at home. Andy dalton
threw four interceptions and lost a fumble.
The bengals managed only three field goals by randy bullock on Thursday. dalton fell to 1-6 career against the Texans, including a pair of playoff losses.
Watson was 15 of 24 for 125 yards and no interceptions. he ran five times for 67 yards.
They thought they finally had a touchdown when Tyler eifert caught a pass from dalton in the end zone in the third quarter but the tight end had stepped out of bounds before making the catch, nullifying it. cincinnati settled for its third field goal.
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great golf course and a good test of golf.”
The field this weekend was also a challenging one, as it featured several teams who made last year’s ncaa tournament, including Texas a & m and iowa state. nevertheless, the i rish held their own, and then some. h andrigan was pleased with his team’s competitive spirit throughout the weekend, as he noted the extent of the challenge which the field presented.
“it was a very competitive field,” handrigan said. “There were several teams there who made the ncaa tournament last year, not just regionals but the national tournament, so it was a good test for us and we competed hard with those teams. ... The field was highly ranked.”
The squad’s fourth place finish was not without struggle. The team found itself in sixth place at 4-over-par after a slow start on the first day, forcing it to play catch-up as the rounds proceeded. but the i rish prevailed under pressure, eventually lifting themselves to 14-under par, a significant feat after what could have been a demoralizing beginning. handrigan was proud of his team’s persistence.
“The biggest challenge was the first day,” handrigan said. “We started off pretty slow, i think we were in about 13th place and roughly 13-over-par through the first nine holes so obviously we finished quite a bit under par, i think we were 14-under and at one point we were 14-over, so to work on those first nine holes with a tough start and battle back and
get all the way to fourth place was pretty impressive for our guys, and to finish at 14-under when you were 13-over was a pretty big turnaround.”
i ndividually, a few team members shone at the b adger i nvitational. b en a lbin, a junior from s anta Fe, new mexico, finished in third place and shot a 66 in the final round despite a triple bogey early in the round. Freshman d avis c hatfield shot a 67 in the second round, and sophomore davis Lamb followed suit with a 68 in the final round.
“e veryone on the team contributed,” handrigan said. “ e ach day we had one or two guys going pretty low, so it was definitely beneficial to the team.”
Going forward, handrigan is looking for the team to heighten its course management proficiency.
“a big thing we’ve been working on is course management, and it’s good for these guys to go out there and test it under the gun in competition,” handrigan said. “i think most of the guys saw the benefits of our strategic attack on the course management side of it, so we’re going to continue to work on that, and obviously success breeds confidence so we learned that we got a lot of confidence from this first tournament, especially the last two rounds, and i think the guys are eager to get back on the road and compete as they have a lot of self-belief right now.” next up for the i rish is is the shoal c reek i nvitational, which will be played at s hoal c reek c ountry c lub in shoal c reek, a labama, on s ept. 25 and 26.
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challenge for the teams.”
For a men’s team that is very young, with more than a handful of freshmen, this will also be the first collegiate level meet with the standard run distance. s parks described the challenges of the longer race distance, saying it can be difficult to transition to the longer race in college. h e is confident in the team’s ability to adapt to the challenge, however.
“a t the high school level they race for 5,000 meters, collegiately, they’re going to race 8k and 10k, so their race distance nearly doubles,” s parks said. “That’s maybe the biggest transition for them. … a ll of those young men bring to the table elite experience throughout their high school life; they were all state-level competitors and most of them were state champions at some level, and competed nationally in different events. s o, they have a lot of confidence … it’s just the length of distance and the training that goes along with that is something that takes a little bit of adaptation.”
The women’s team does not have a distance change between the high school and collegiate level.
The women’s side is also, expected to perform well
as n otre d ame is currently ranked n o. 8 in the country, with freshman a nna s ophia Keller expected to make an impact. s parks has high expectations for the e ffingham, i llinois, native, who holds the cross-country state record for division 1 a and was an 11-time state champion in high school.
“We’ve got a freshman that was one of the top girls in the country last year,” s parks said. “ s he should be able to fly it in and be very similar, obviously, hopefully better, than she was in high school in a nna s ophia Keller.”
i n addition to Keller, the i rish also benefit from rising star Yared n uguse, who was
chosen as acc Freshman of the Week after his first-place finish in the c rusader o pen.
“Yared is probably the best sprinter [of the freshmen],” s parks said. “ i f you watched the race, the team ran as a group for the first 90 percent of the race, and then [assistant coach s ean] c arlson, turned the guys loose. [Yared]’s winning of that award is a reflection upon the entire freshman group and the strength of all of them.”
The n ational c atholic i nvitational will be held at b urke Golf c ourse on Friday at 3:30 p.m.
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Irish sophomore Davis Lamb follows through on an approach shot during the Notre Dame Kickoff Challenge on Sept. 3, 2016.
ANNA MASON | The Observer Irish junior Anna Rohrer competes in the Joe Piane Invitational on Sept. 30 at Burke Golf Course. Rohrer finished first in the race.
