B The Observer B Senior Justin Brumbaugh, who passed chooses the '97- 98 away this semester, w ill be male and female remembered in a private Athletes of the Year ceremony Sunday after­ and Story of the Year. B Scene reviews the best places to go for seniors looking noon. His parents will to travel through Europe this summer receive his honorary degree p. 19 on his behalf. p. 7 OBSERVER Friday, May 15, 1998 * Vol. XXXI No. 136 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Class of 98 bids farewell By CHRISTOPHER SHIPLEY It is not just the seniors who are celebrating News Writer this weekend, however. Two hundred thirty master’s and doctoral students in the Graduate They came from all over the world four years School, 233 master’s degree students in the ago with dreams of the Golden Dome, football College of Business Administration and 174 weekends and a new sense of independence students in the Law School will also receive dancing in their heads. their diplomas. For 1,812 seniors, those dreams have As this year’s commencement exercises draw become a reality. Notre Dame, Ind., will forever closer, most seniors are finding that their emo­ hold a special place in the hearts of those grad­ tions range from delight to nervousness for uating this weekend in the 153rd what lies beyond the influence of the Golden Commencement exercises on Sunday at 2 p.m. Dome. in the Joyce Center arena. see N D GRAD/ page 8 The Observer/Joe Stark T he beautiful weather that characterized Senior Week reflects off the water in front of Haggar College Center. By M. SHANNON RYAN their minds wrapped in thoughts of Saint Mary's Editor _______________ making friends, overbearing pro­ fessors and life in an all-female As many of the freshmen of four atmosphere. years ago unloaded their belong­ But this year’s graduating class ings from parents’ station wagons will leave the school in the midst of and minivans on the Le Mans Hall the Jubilee celebration, saying courtyard, few would have imag­ goodbye to life-long friends who ined themselves in caps and gowns are both students and professors The Observer/Kevin Dalum on the same lawn. and cherishing the value of a Arriving during Saint Mary’s women’s college. T he Notre Dame Grotto was the setting o f a candlelight procession last night. The sesquicentennial anniversary in procession was preceded by a Mass in the Basilica. 1994, the inexperienced crew had see SMC GRAD/ page 8 Valedictorians prove worthy of their honors teering at the Center for the Homeless or Cordes has been accepted to an simply enjoying the company of her M.D /Ph.D. program at the University of neighbors in McCandless Hall. CLASS Wisconsin Medical School, which is a But the stellar student, graduating with seven-year course involving two years a 3.98 GPA, is atypical w ith her black of medical school, two to three years of belt in tae kwon do and her fluency in | j p j J of 1998 research and two years of clinical rota­ five languages. She is even geographical­ tions. ly unique. Cordes, who was born legally blind Saint Mary’s names Hailing from Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, Legally blind black w ith a condition called Leber’s Disease Stoyanova is only the second internation­ and was completely blind by his sopho­ international student al student to be valedictorian since 1979. belt is on his way to more year in high school, is the second Stoyanova decided to study in the U.S. completely blind person to gain admis­ as best in the class to continue improving her fluency in the medical school sion to a United States medical school. English language; she came to Saint “As far back as I can remember — By COLLEEN McCARTHY Mary’s for a scholarship. By LAURA PETELLE and my mom tells me stories about it — Saint Mary’s News Editor “1 decided to come to the states to Assistant News Editor I would bombard my parents with ques­ M. SHANNON RYAN study business and wanted to use the tions, and my mom would go running to Saint Mary’s Editor English language, too,” said Stoyanova, Tim Cordes, valedictorian of Notre the library,” Cordes said. “When I got who will receive a bachelor’s degree in Dame’s class of 1998, is just a regular older, they sent me to the library [for Rossitsa Stoyanova, Saint M ary’s vale­ business administration, with concentra­ guy. the answers]. dictorian of this year’s graduating class, tions in accounting and finance. Just a regular guy with a major in bio­ “When I was about 12, I got my first is remarkable in more ways than one. “There are more scholarships offered chemistry, a 3.991 grade point average, issue of Science News in Braille,” Like many students she can be found for international students. Saint Mary’s a black belt in tae kwon do and jujitsu, Cordes said. He turned to the biomedi- working part-time in the library, volun­ and a seeing-eye dog named Electra. see STOYANOVA/ page 6 see CORDES/ page 6 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, May 15,1998 I n s id e C o l u m n LAETARE MEDAL Being an Pellegrino to receive religious award at commencement Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, professor of medicine and Medical Center. He joined the medical faculty of the medical ethics at Georetown University, will be pre­ State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1966 ND/SMC grad sented with Notre Dame’s 1998 Laetare Medal during and was appointed dean of the SUNY medical school commencement exercises on May _______________ two years later. 17 . Pellegrino was president of the Yale-New Haven “Why did you decide to go The Laetare Medal is generally Medical Center from 1975-78. During 1978-82, he was to Notre Dame?” regarded as the most prestigious a professor of philosophy and biology at Catholic In almost every job inter­ annual award conferred upon University of America in Washington, D.C. He has been view I’ve had during the Catholics in the United States. Past a member of the Georgetown University faculty since past semester, I’ve been recipients of the award include 1982 and has served as the director of Georgetown’s asked that question. It takes Father Theodore Hesburgh, Dorothy Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Center of the Advanced me back four years ago, to Day and John Kennedy. Study of Ethics and Center for Clinical Bioethics. the time when, like most of Dr. Pellegrino has had a long and He is also the foundef ot he Journal of Medicine and us graduating this week­ distinguished career as a supporter Pellegrino Philosophy and has written more than 500 articles and end, I had several options Brad Prendergast and defender of Catholic life views. 17 books. Dr. Pellegrino is also an outspoken opponent of where to go to school. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus After receiving his medical degree from New York of managed health care. Each of the schools that University in 1944, he served medical residencies The Laetare Modal was established at Notre Dame in accepted me were of a high academic caliber, before becoming a research fellow in renal medicine 1883 and is the American counterpart of the Golden but Notre Dame had one drawing card that the and physiology at New York University. Rose, a papal honor that dates back to the 11th centu­ other schools couldn’t match. With my father a In 1959, he became professor and chairman of the ry. The medal bears the inscription, “Magna est vcritas 1970 graduate of Notre Dame and my mother a department of medicine at the University of Kentucky et prevlebit” — “Truth is mighty, and it shall prevail.” 1971 graduate of Saint Mary’s, 1 was well aware of the type of people that Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s produced. In determining which school ■ OBITUARIES 1949. He served as vice president for business affairs to attend, and therefore which school to gradu­ from 1952-1976. He taught accounting and directed ate from, I decided that I wanted to become one • JOHN HOWARD YODER, professor of theology, the Old College Seminary program. Wilson retired in of those people. died Dec. 30 last year of a heart attack. Yoder gradu­ 1978 and began work in campus ministry at Saint I wanted to be a Notre Dame graduate. ated from Goshen College in 1947 and earned his doc­ M ary’s College. He also assisted in St. Joseph Parish A Notre Dame or Saint Mary’s graduate, I like toral degree in theology from the University of Basel, ministries and was a staff member at the Moreau to think, is someone who can see the big picture Switzerland, in 1962. He taught theology at Goshen Seminary. of life, and at the same time can see how he or Biblical Seminary from 1965-1984 and was president she fits into his or her small sliver of society and of the school from 1970-73. Yoder joined the Notre • BROTHER JUST PACZESNY, a 1949 Notre Dame then works to make that a better place. Dame faculty in 1977. He also wrote several books, graduate and the 1974-78 vice president for student For us who are graduating this weekend, the including “The Pre.istly Kingdom,” “What Would You affairs, died Jan. 29. He spent almost 45 years as a campus community has been our small world Do?, ” and “ The Politics of Jesus.” Yoder was 70.