Eldred Speaks About Retirement Trigiani to the Past Six by SARAH NESTOR Years
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-~ Tuesday, March 25,2003 2 u.s. THE troops held hostage page 5 The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL X NO. 116 HTTP: Eldred speaks about retirement Trigiani to the past six By SARAH NESTOR years. Eldred speakatSMC Senior StafrWriter plans to join her husband in Saint Mary's President Marilou Minnesota after l·:ldn·d publicly addressed the com leaving the conunencement munity Monday afternoon in College, but said O'l.aughlin Auditorium for the first that she docs not By ANNELIESE WOOLFORD time since announcing her retire have any definite Saint Mary's Editor ment earlier this month. plans for what l~ldrnd explained that she wanted she will do. to hold the forum to respond to However, Following months of anticipation, Saint qut~stions about her retiromcnt and Eldred said she Mary's announced Monday that author, screen nday what will he happening in the plans to take writer and director Adriana Trigiani will speak coming year. piano lessons, at the College's 2003 Commencement ceremony Eldred announced her retirement participate in on May 17. March 5, but at the request of the volunteer work Trigiani, a 1981 Saint Board of Trustees, will continue to and do some Mary's graduate, was cho st~rve as president until a replace reflective writ sen based on her popularity nwnt is found. ing. among students and their t·:ldred said that she had been Eldred said requests. thinking about retirement for sever business would "I met her last year at the al months and that the "time is continue as usual Sophomore Literary Festival," said senior Emily right" for lwr to n~tire from Saint for the College Mary's. She addPd that being presi and that she Blaha. "I thought she was very charismatic and was Trlglanl dent had been a "fairly high stress would continue job." to work toward impressed at how she Hldred also said that the average her goals to reflected on her time at Saint Mary's and how it tenure for a college president is six finance the mas helped form her as a person. I think she'll be a years and that upon completion of ter and strategic great speaker." the 2003-04 academic year, she will plans. Trigiani is the author of three novels: "Big have served as president for seven "It is important Stone Gap" (2000), "Big Cherry Holler" (2001) years, adding jokingly that she for us to continue and "Milk Glass Moon" (2002), each focusing on ELLIE ASHBY/The Observer might overstay her welcome. the work already the life of character Ave Maria Mulligan. "Big Saint Mary's President Marllou Eldred spoke to the Hldred said that this is a transition underway," Stone Gap" will soon become a major motion point at the College, especially as Eldred said. College community Monday for the first time since picture, both written and directed by Trigiani. Saint Mary's will be working to "Saint Mary's announcing her retirement earlier this month. In addition to her work as an author, renew its accreditation from the College is very Trigiani's background includes work as a tele Higher Learning Commission, an strong, as we all know, and it will be to open in December 2004. vision writer/producer, playwright, comedian organization formerly known as business as usual." By her own admission, Eldred said and documentary filmmaker. She has been North Central Accreditation. In her remaining time at Saint that enrollment is the College's involved with such television shows as "A "I felt I either needed to make a Mary's Eldred plans to continue to biggest challenge. While projected Different World," "The Cosby Show" and "Good commitment for the next three or work towards raising funds for the enrollment for next year's freshman Sports." four years, or to leave a bit early," Master Plan, especially funds for the class is low. that enrollment has She served as executive producer and head Eldred said. She added that she did new academic building. Eldred said increased by 150 students, from writer for the critically acclaimed film show not want to leave during the accred that the estimated cost of the acade 1,412 in the fall of 1997 to 1,571 in "City Kids" and comedy special "Growing Up itation process. mic building is $13 million, but that the fall of 2002. Funny," which earned an Emmy nomination for Eldred also said that she wanted $7 million had already been raised. Eldred also said that she would Lily Tomlin and Lifetime television. to spend more time with her hus She also added that $16 million of begin to prepare the College for the Trigiani wrote, produced and directed band, Don. who has been commut the needed $17 million for the stu re-accreditation process. "Queens of the Bigtime" in 1996, a documen ing from St. Paul. Minn. to Saint dent center has been raised and that tary film about her family in Hoseto, Penn. The Mary's almost every weekend for she fully expects the student center see ELDRED/page 4 see TRIGIANI/page 4 Students react to Economics Department split Orthodox economics focuses on a more orthodox approach to eco By TERESA FRALISH more mathematical approach nomics, said he felt the changes Associate News Editor while heterodox economics con would negatively affect both siders less quantitative issues. schools of thought in the depart Arter learning of changes that Traditionally, Notre Dame's ment. will affect the Economics department has focused on het "It's going to hurt the study of Departnwnt next year, studenl<> erodox economics, although the both heterodox and orthodox respond1~d to how the changes program ranks low nationally. economics at this University," might alter tlwir field of study Undergraduates will still be said Lawson. Specifically, and the quality of the offered one major, but other Lawson was concerned about University's economies program. changes. such as class require how the changes would affect StudenL<> difl"ered in their opin ments, were made to the gradu faculty hiring for both depart ions as to how the changes ate economics program. The ments. would affect the study of proposal passed Thursday dif Junior Erin Daly said she Economics at the University. fered from the original proposal, agreed with the decision not to "I think it's sad that the which would have established establish two separate under process went forward," said two separate majors and made graduate economics majors. Daniel Lawson, graduate student further changes to the graduate ''I'm definitely very pleased to and president of Economica, the program. find out that the undergraduate graduate student organization While Lawson felt that the pro department is going to remain as for economics. posal passed by the Council was one," she said. "By maintaining it ANNA O"CONNOR/The Observer According to the proposal a small improvement over the as one [major] it's going to keep Student opinion on the split of the Economics Department, taking passed by the Academic Council original one. he still had many the focus on moral economics." place next year, varies among undergraduate and graduate students. Thursday, the current economics questions about how the changes Daly said she felt that the cur faculty will be separated into two would affect his department. rent Economics Department's new departments, Economics ''I'm glad that they took faculty approach to heterodox econom this caliber, but that's what sep implemented as well as how the and Policy Study and Economics concerns into account," he said. ics made it unique among other arates it from other programs in process of change had been car and Econometrics. "I wish that graduate students universities' economics pro my opinion," said Daly. ried out. The split re11ects the two dif had been involved in the process grams. Graduate student Sharon Carr "I don't think this is how Notre ferent schools of thought that from the beginning." "You can get a pretty good eco was also concerned about the exist in the study of economics. 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