Beginning of the End for '94 Graduates
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Friday, May 13, 1994• Vol. XXVI No. 133 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Beginning of the end for '94 graduates 370 to end years at Over 2,300 will bid Saint Mary's farewell to ND By LAURA FERGUSON By SARAH DORAN Saint Mary's News Editor News Editor Nearly 370 Saint Mary's students will be Over 2,300 Notre Dame students will receive awarded degrees at the Colleges 147th annual degrees at the University's 149th commencement tomorrow. Commencement ceremonies Sunday at 2 p.m. in The ceremonies, in celebration of the the Joyce Athletic and Convocation Center Sesquicentennial of Saint Mary's, will begin at (JACC). noon in the Courtyard of LeMans Hall. Angela Ireland's head of government, Albert Athletic Facility is the rain site for this year's Reynolds, will address the graduates. He and commencement. ten others, including humorist and syndicated According to Maureen Manier, director of newspaper columnist Erma Hornbeck, Marian communications, this commencement will be Wright Edelman, president of the Children's special because it is the sesquicentennial Defense Fund, and John Welch, chairman of the commencement. board and chief executive officer of the General "A lot of attention has been paid to every Electric Company, will receive honorary degrees detail to make it a festive occasion to commemo from the University. rate the sesquicentennial," said Manier. "For Degrees will be conferred on 1,785 undergrad example at the end we will be singing "Spirits uates, 150 master's and doctoral students in the Taking Flight" a song specially commissioned Graduate School, 214 master's degree students for the College's sesquicentennial. in the College of Business Administration, and Approximately, 230 Bachelor of Arts, 70 185 students in the Law School. Bachelor of Science, 55 Bachelor of Business Jonathan Fay, the 1994 valedictorian, will Administration, 9 Bachelor of Fine Arts, and 3 deliver the valedictory address. Bachelor of Music degrees will be conferred to Those unable to see the ceremonies in person the class of 1994. can watch them free of charge on television in According to Teresa Marcy, director of DeBartolo Hall (Rooms 101, 117, and 118), the Academic Affairs at Saint Mary's, this year's Oak Room in the South Dining Hall, and the graduation class is slightly smaller than previ main lounge of LaFortune Student Center. The ous years. commencement telecast will begin at 1:30 p.m. Giving the commencement address will be During the ceremony Sidney Callahan, profes Lynne Cheney, former chair of the National sor of psychology at Mercy College and colum Endowment for the Humanities. Cheney will also nist for Commonweal magazine, will accept the receive an honorary doctorate of Humanities University's Laetare Medal, the oldest and most from Saint Mary's.Cheney is a well-known prestigious award given to American Catholics. champion of the humanities and will speak at Notre Dame has presented the award annually Saint Mary's to celebrate the Colleges liberal since 1883. arts tradition-a tradition Cheney has devoted Other recipients of University honorary her career to preserving and advancing. degrees at commencement include: see SMC/ page 4 see NO/ page 8 Fay to deliver ND valedictory By JASON WILLIAMS he delivers his speech at com to the classroom to teach. Associate News Editor mencement exercises Sunday. Fay is the recipient of a "My basic point will be that National Science Foundation Jonathan Fay will take a little all of us should reflect on our graduate fellowship and has more than a degree away from past experiences at Notre Dame been honored by the Sigma Notre Dame when he graduates and then apply what we have Gamma Tau and Tau Beta Pi Sunday. learned about ourselves so we engineering societies. He was a After achieving a 3.983 grade can learn about the future," he NASA undergraduate research point average, Fay, who dou said. fellow last summer and was se ble-majored in aerospace and Fay will attend Stanford lected as the year's winner of mechanical engineering, was University next fall and hopes Notre Dame's Zahm Prize for named valedictorian of this to receive a PhD in aerospace Aeronautical Engineering. year's graduating class. engineering. Upon fmishing his A Keenan Hall resident, Fay He said he will attempt to graduate studies, Fay plans to was co-captain of the tuba sec sum what his Notre Dame edu work in research or industry tion of Notre Dame's marching cation has meant to him when for some time before returning band this year. Adams named SMC valedictorian By ELIZABETH REGAN graduate ftrst in my class, but I a lot of biases and beliefs and Saint Mary's Editor . also will not deny that this how we construct our beliefs," .. .·'all);>.·. · ..• debate will always haunt me," she continued. Saint Mary's senior Catherine she said. Adams was the recipient of ncement· ...:Gou.Pt (if L~rn~;:vtS Michel Adams, achieving a Adams, from Louisville, KY., the SISTAR grant last summer. Ang:eta Athlekc Facftity) 3.973 grade point average, has was unable to fulfill her goal of She worked with assistant 2 p'~ ·.... · :30 p.m.JJaiversity Reception. ·· been named the valedictorian attending an all women's English professor Laura Center for Coo(injing Education Auditorium of the class of 1996. boarding high school but care Haigwood on her research en 5 p.m. to $:30 p.m. Baccataureate Mass. · Adams, an art major with a fully selected an all women's titled "Elizabeth Allen Starr: JACC South Dome · concentration in art history and college. Romantic Roots of a Woman a Women's Studies minor has "I had seen that women's col Centered Art Pedagogy." Sunday, May 15 always taken her studies seri leges in general have done "This was the must fulfulling 9%30 p.m:; MBA Qipl ously. quite well in statistics concern academic experiences that I "I came here with the delib ing colleges," she said. "When could have done at this or any erate intent of being valedicto my mother and I visited Saint other college," said Adams. "In rian. Throughout my four years Mary's, she fell in love with it." an age when universities really of pursuing this goal, however, Upon coming to Saint Mary's, focus on publication, I found a debate has erupted within me Adams discovered that she was this commendable on the part on the value of this intent. As a very "left wing for this cam of Saint Mary's," Adams contin feminist, I wonder if this delib pus." ued. erate pursuit of an award "I always had assumed that a After graduation, Adams based on the concept of hierar lot of people felt like me and on plans to move to France to chical structures is ethical. I this campus this wasn't true. study literature at the will not deny that I am happy to Coming here made me question University of Rouen. page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, May 13, 1994 INSIDE COLUMN WORLD AT A GLANCE No, the McDermott to leave ND for Uganda Senior Class fellow Father Tom McDermott, director of before- as a Holy Cross seminarian in Uganda from laughing never special projetcs for Campus Ministry, is leaving the 1977-78 and as a priest in Kenya from 1982-90. His University this summer to assume responsibility for a experience with international Holy Cross community has parish in Ginga, Uganda. The parish, which is only a showed him "the importance of the whole world and did stop few years old, is part of the growing African community that the children of Mishawaka, East Africa and India of the Congregation of the Holy Cross. Father are all equally important to us," he said. The McDermott, who is a graduate of Notre Dame, has Congregation of the Holy Cross is represented around Tito Fuentes laughed out worked at Campus Ministry and been a resident of the world in countries which include Chile, Brazil, Peru, loud as we pulled out of Morrissey Hall since 1990. He also was part of a parish Africa, Canada, Bangladesh, India, France, Haiti and Rochester, N.Y., around in Granger from 1979-82. He has worked in Africa twice Italy. five that Thursday morning in July. Wiltrout awarded writing scholarship Who pretends they can Johnson named a Beinecke Scholar trust a trip-weary Subaru Katie Wiltrout, a junior American studies major from Notre Dame junior Bruce Johnson is one of just 16 Macungie, Pa., has been awarded the 1994-1995 Red with somewhere in the students nationwide to be awarded a 1994 Heinecke Smith Writing Scholarship at the University of Notre neighborhood of 112,947 By DAVID Memorial Scholarship. A music major from Westerville, Dame. Active in journalism since high school, Wiltrout miles on it? Who drives KINNEY Ohio, Johnson will receive a $2,000 grant for his senior was the 1993-94 managing editor of Scholastic, Notre from New York to Editor-in-Chief emeritus year at Notre Dame and $15,000 per year for each of his Dame's 127-year-old campus magazine, and will be the Montana for less than a ________ first two years of graduate study. The Edwin, Frederick publication's editor-in-chief during the next academic week of fishing? Who and Walter Heinecke Memorial Scholarship Program year. She will work as an intern this summer at Notre thinks they can get by for three weeks on a was established in 1970 by the Sperry and Hutchinson Dame Press, the largest Catholic university press in the hundred bucks each? Co.