E680 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks April 28, 1998 Fleet Avenue and the Slavic Village area. class, the Roman Catholic priests who live in areas of intellectual engagement where we Today, 14 different groups call Karlin Hall their every dormitory, the Mass recited nightly can make a real contribution.’’ home. and the forbidding of men and women to Notre Dame has long had a special place The anniversary will be celebrated with spe- enter each other’s dormitory rooms after a among American universities but not largely certain hour. It comes as well in the work for its scholarship. Founded in 1842 by a cial masses at St. John Nepomucene Church being fostered here. priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, it and Our Lady of Lourdes Church. The three- Political scientists are reclaiming Augus- was to American Catholics in the mid-20th day party to commemorate the occasion starts tine to examine ‘‘just war’’ theory. Law pro- century what City College was to New York May 1 and will include live music, Slovak folk fessors are focusing on neglected church Jews, a welcoming place to study without dancing and social dinners. views about dying in legal debates on as- fear of prejudice. My fellow colleagues, please join me in sa- sisted suicide. Historians are emphasizing The dominance of its football team under a luting the members of Karlin Hall. the role of local parishes in understanding series of legendary coaches beginning with urban race relations. Knute Rockne—and the public way in which f Some of these approaches would have been teams recited Mass before each game—fo- TRIBUTE TO CORTEZ KENNEDY dismissed as almost ridiculously retrograde cused the loyalty of many American Catho- a generation ago, yet scholars here and else- lics who tended to regard Notre Dame with where say the American academy seems sur- almost Lourdes-like devotion. HON. MARION BERRY prisingly receptive to them today because In recent decades, the university’s endow- OF ARKANSAS they bring new or lost perspectives to vital ment has risen to $1.5 billion, nearly 30 times subjects. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES what it was in 1970. This comes at a time of newfound self-con- U.S. News and World Report ranks Notre Tuesday, April 28, 1998 fidence for Notre Dame. Flush with cash Dame 19th of national universities and a re- Mr. BERRY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to from rich alumni and proceeds from its sto- cent book, ‘‘The Rise of American Research ried football team, the university is discov- Universities’’ (Johns Hopkins, 1997), named pay tribute to a terrific young man. ering it can lure scholars, including non- Many of you may recognize the name Cor- Notre Dame as among a handful of top rising Catholics, from top institutions by promot- private research universities. tez Kennedy. Cortez is a star defensive tackle ing religion. It is the combination of competitiveness for the Seattle Seahawks in the National Foot- ‘‘When I was a graduate student at Harvard and tradition that attracted M. Cathleen ball League. Aside from being an accom- 25 years ago, the whole idea of working in a Kaveny to join the law faculty here three plished athlete and six-time Pro Bowl player, religious framework was bizarre,’’ said years ago. Holder of a doctorate and a law Cortez is an admirable human being who has James Turner, an intellectual historian who degree from Yale University, Professor not forgotten his beginnings. moved here recently from the University of Kaveny has become an expert on assisted Michigan. ‘‘Augustine had become a kind of suicide by drawing on Catholic teachings. Cortez grew up in Mississippi County in the museum artifact to be studied only by the First Congressional District of Arkansas. He She is planning a scholarly study of mercy, appropriate curators. But now we are mak- how a society should feed its hungry and went to school and played football in Wilson, ing the case that neglected religious sources comfort its sick. Arkansas. Each summer, Cortez returns to can help reconfigure academic discussion.’’ ‘‘These are areas that I could never pursue Rivercrest High School in Wilson to host a Professor Turner is director of the newly as a junior faculty member at another law football clinic for the youngsters in his home- established Erasmus Institute here, a unique school,’’ Professor Kaveny said. ‘‘I would be town. The stars that turn out each year to help interdisciplinary effort that seeks to be a na- laughed at. Here they are excited about it.’’ tional model for the reinvigoration of Catho- Cortez teach the children are a testament to There is some concern that all the talk lic and other religious intellectual traditions about rediscovering Christian sources will the relationship he has with his peers. Widely- in contemporary scholarship. known football players like Derek Thomas, serve as a pretext for squelching free in- He is among recent catches for Notre Dame quiry. Michael A. Signer, a Reform rabbi Russell Maryland, and Rick Mirer, and coach- in a highly competitive academic environ- who holds a chair here in Jewish culture, es like Barry Switzer have all traveled to Wil- ment. Others have been lured to the prairies says Notre Dame is still grappling with being son at Cortez's request. of northern Indiana by the idea of turning a both Catholic and catholic. The test of the On April 18, I was honored to attend a cere- respectable academic institution into a truly Erasmus Institute, Rabbi Signer says, will be fine one. to see how it handles that tension, whether mony in Wilson to witness the renaming of Philip L. Quinn left an endowed chair in it reaches out to other traditions or barri- Main Street to Cortez Kennedy Avenue. I want philosophy at Brown University for one here cades itself in. to extend my heartfelt thanks to Cortez for all because, he said: ‘‘In my personal and profes- Alan Wolfe, who describes himself as a sec- he has done for Wilson and Mississippi Coun- sional life I take religion seriously. In the ular sociologist at Boston University, wrote secular academy, they are not much con- ty. He is truly a superb young man. recently in The Chronicle of Higher Edu- cerned with religion. They look at it from f cation that the revival of religion in the the social science perspective.’’ academy at places like Notre Dame was wel- George M. Marsden, a historian of religion NOTRE DAME COMBINING come. and a devout Protestant, left Duke Univer- RESEARCH AND RELIGION ‘‘To study the world’s great literary works, sity for Notre Dame because, he said, only many of which were inspired by religious here did he feel there was the desire for a questions, without full appreciation of those HON. TIM ROEMER high-level scholarly discussion within a questions is like performing Hamlet without OF INDIANA Christian context. the Prince,’’ Mr. Wolfe wrote. ‘‘Critics of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES While there are scores of small Christian colleges across the United States, none can academic specialization in the humanities Tuesday, April 28, 1998 lay claim to being a center of scholarship often say that English departments, infatu- outside the Christian world. Notre Dame ated with contemporary works, no longer Mr. ROEMER. Mr. Speaker, I would like to teach enough Milton or Tolstoy. It would be draw my colleagues' attention to the following can. One of its sources of pride is its new Irish more correct to say that, through the lens of December 10, 1997 article in the New York Studies Institute, financed with a gift of $13 secularism, they are teaching them inac- Times about the University of Notre Dame. million from Donald R. Keough, an alumnus curately.’’ [From the New York Times, Dec. 10, 1997] who was president of Coca-Cola from 1981 to f 1993. NOTRE DAME COMBINING RESEARCH AND The donation has made it possible to at- RELIGION INTRODUCTING THE AVIATION tract Seamus Deane, one of the most distin- BILATERAL ACCOUNTABILITY ACT (By Ethan Bronner) guished Irish scholars and authors, as direc- NOTRE DAME, IND., Dec. 4.—At the end of a tor. Professor Deane, whose novel, ‘‘Reading century in which the great American univer- in the Dark’’ (Knopf, 1997), was received with HON. WILLIAM O. LIPINSKI sities have moved from being extensions of high praise earlier this year, says that by OF ILLINOIS churches to centers of secularism, the Uni- September 1998 there will be six full-time IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES versity of Notre Dame is carving itself an faculty members and one visiting professor important niche as an institution of serious at the institute, making it the biggest such Tuesday, April 28, 1998 scholarship with a deeply religious environ- program in the country. Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ment. ‘‘We’re not on the scale of Johns Hopkins Some colleges are religious; others have or M.I.T.’’ said the Rev. Edward A. Malloy, introduce a piece of legislation entitled the vital research centers. Notre Dame is rare in Notre Dame’s president, ‘‘but we are increas- Aviation Bilateral Accountability Act. The Avia- combining the two. ing the intellectual resources so as to make tion Bilateral Accountability Act is a bill that The religious nature of Notre Dame is felt this a great university. With the Erasmus In- will require Congressional approval of all U.S. not only in the crucifixes that hang in every stitute and Irish studies we have identified aviation bilateral agreements.