Notre Dame Club of Eastern Kansas

The club had a great time getting to know Joe Otting and his parents, Debbie and Eric at the send off dinner last month. Such a great time that we forgot to take a photo! But Debbie was so kind to share some from Joe's signing in December with the whole family and then one when they dropped him off on campus for summer school and training. Be sure to watch for #64 over the next 4-5 years!

https://irish.nbcsports.com/2023/06/16/notre-dame-99-to-0-no-64-joe-otting-incoming-freshman-offensive-lineman-four-star-recruit/
So proud to have Joe representing Kansas!!

Notre Dame 99-to-0: No. 64 Joe Otting, incoming freshman OL, four-star recruit - Inside the Irish | NBC Sports When Joe Otting first committed to Notre Dame, his recruiting profile was rather low. By the end of the cycle, he had shot up the rankings, validating the Irish insights.

Very exciting to have a local student athlete join the team!

Hayden’s Joe Otting signs NLI with Notre Dame Otting has been committed to the Fighting Irish since June, and says it's always been his dream school.

Let us know if you can make it and we will save you a seat! http://norsemenbrewingco.com

Don't forget, next week is our first in person club event since 2019! This lecture on Fact, Fiction, and the Newsfeed presented by Tim Weninger, the Frank M. Friemann Collegiate Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Please join us at St. Thomas More Church Utopia Center, 2800 Kimball Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas 66052, Thursday, September 8, 2022 at 7pm.

Come cheer on the Irish together for the first time in 3 years! http://norsemenbrewingco.com Drop a comment if you can make it so we can save enough seats!

Two weeks from tonight you can come learn about Fact, Fiction, and the Newsfeed. People increasingly rely on social media as their primary source of news and information. Although social media platforms differ in the way that information is curated and delivered, user ratings (likes, upvotes, pins) play a significant role in determining what is considered to be popular or trending. Tasked with curating an ever-increasing amount of content, providers leverage the collective ratings of the crowd to identify which content to show users. Unfortunately, these types of systems can be easily abused by malicious agents through rating spam and a new type of digital-astroturfing. In this talk, we will discuss the algorithmic and social mechanisms that drive this misbehavior and the recent work that is guiding social media platforms towards more reliable social rating systems. This lecture will be presented by Tim Weninger, the Frank M. Friemann Collegiate Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and proud graduate from the Computing Information and Science Department at Kansas State University (BS'07, MS'08). He was a member of the Student Government Association, and parishioner of St. Isidore's Catholic Church.

For the first time since 2019, the club will get together to cheer on the Irish! Drop a comment with suggestions on where you'd love to meet up and we will get it arranged!

Three weeks from tonight! The lecture will be about Fact, Fiction, and the Newsfeed, presented by Tim Weninger, the Frank M. Friemann Collegiate Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.

Please join us at St. Thomas More Church Utopia Center, 2900 Kimball Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas 66052, Thursday, September 8, 2022 at 7pm. The topic is Fact, Fiction, and the Newsfeed. People increasingly rely on social media as their primary source of news and information. Although social media platforms differ in the way that information is curated and delivered, user ratings (likes, upvotes, pins) play a significant role in determining what is considered to be popular or trending. Tasked with curating an ever-increasing amount of content, providers leverage the collective ratings of the crowd to identify which content to show users. Unfortunately, these types of systems can be easily abused by malicious agents through rating spam and a new type of digital-astroturfing. In this talk, we will discuss the algorithmic and social mechanisms that drive this misbehavior and the recent work that is guiding social media platforms towards more reliable social rating systems.

This lecture is presented by Tim Weninger, the Frank M. Friemann Collegiate Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and proud graduate from the Computing Information and Science Department at Kansas State University (BS'07, MS'08), and was a member of the Student Government Association, and parishioner of St. Isidore's Catholic Church. He has authored over 90 research publications in the areas of social media and artificial intelligence. The key application of his research is to identify how humans generate, curate and search for information in the pursuit of knowledge. He uses properties of these emergent networks to reason about the nature of relatedness, membership and other abstract and physical phenomena. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the Army Research Office Young Faculty Award, and has received research grants from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, DARPA, USAID, and the John Templeton Foundation. He is an inaugural member of the ACM's Future of Computing Academy and serves on numerous scientific program committees and editorial boards.

We would love help planning events for 2022! If you are interested in game watches this fall, we need people who can pick a location and be there to greet our fellow fans. It's super easy, we just need someone who is available as our club leadership are busy on weekends.

We did not order club football tickets this year due to losing money the past four years but if we can get renewed interest in the club we will order next year. In the meantime, reach out to us to discuss using our personal alumni tickets, most games still available!

Now that we can gather together in person again, it's time to plan some events! Who would like to come to our UND Celebration event with our guest speaker from campus? We usually host this in the summer but want to judge interest level before we arrange travel for our speaker. Please comment or message us!!

Our club was awarded a Lennon Life Prize from the Chuck and Joan Lennon Gospel of Life Initiative. We are using the funds to purchase infant car seats for expectant couples so they can safely bring their newborns home from Ascension/Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan, Kansas. We are partnering with Shepherd's Crossing and Life Choice Ministries who help identify couples in need and then have the carseats installed by certified installer. Our first family had their carseat installed this week!

We had a great time at the (hot) Purdue game and now we are looking for someone who wants to buy the 2 USC tickets we have! Message me or comment here if you are interested, otherwise we will put on StubHub

That game was a little too stressful on Sunday night! If anyone is interested in getting together for a game watch for upcoming games, let me know what city you would want to meet in and feel free to suggest venues. So far I have heard AJs and The Norsemen. Go Irish!!

We still have some club tickets to the Purdue game if anyone is interested! I will be sending out a club email soon with more details. You can message us on here also if you want more information. We are also having a student send off in Manhattan on August 8th, details are still pending, but save the date!