ND Hosts MBA Competition Zamora: Remember Irish Team ~ L Romero and the Poor Makes ‘Strong’ by MORRIS KARAM R O M Ero ’S Life
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t i X H OBSERVER Wednesday, March 22, 1995* Vol. XXVI No. 106 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S ND hosts MBA competition Zamora: Remember Irish team ~ l Romero and the poor makes ‘strong’ By MORRIS KARAM R o m ero ’s life. He said this News Writer political conversion stemmed from Romero’s discovery of the presentation Emphasizing the late Arch political reality in El Salvador. By ANDREA JORDAN bishop Oscar Romero’s advoca “His conversion was not one News Writer tion for the poor, Ruben of black to white, but a pro Zamora, Salvadorian political cess,” Zamora said. “He start A team from Notre Dame leader and 1994 presidential ed to realize the poor not as competed in the 14th annual candidate, spoke last night in objects of compassion but sub Notre Dame Invitational Mas the Hesburgh Center Audi jects of change in society.” ter’s of Business Administra torium. According to Zamora, tion (MBA) Case Competition, Zamora, a personal friend of th ro u g h R om ero’s effo rts, a which was held yesterday in Romero, outlined the assassi Salvadorian peace accord was the Center for Continuing Edu nated bishop’s progression to finally established in 1992. The cation. human rights advocate in three result of this accord has been The Notre Dame team com stages in his speech, “The Em an absence of violence for the prised of Curt Mitchke, Mike powering Spirit of Archbishop past three years, Zamora said. Morgan, and Thomas Prame Romero: A Personal Testi However, according to faired well in the competition, mony.” Zamora described Zamora, the human rights but lost to the team from Uni Romero’s relationship with the Romero worked for are not versity of Texas at Austin. poor as a priest. being considered by the young The other three universities “From the beginning he people of today. participating in the competition (Archbishop Romero) cared for “People my age can relate to were Duke University, the poor, ” Zamora said, “but at his message because we re Georgetown University, and that time it was an external re member what happened,” Zamora said. “But what about Ohio State University. The Observer/Brandon Candura lationship.” Each university had one team Notre Dame MBA students presented their case at the Notre Dame According to Zamora, when 20 year olds? Now that there made up of three MBA stu Invitational Masters in B usiness Administration C ase Competition held Romero became a bishop, he is no more repression, his dents. In the competition, stu yesterday in the Center for Continuing Education. began to stop thinking of the actions have become some poor merely as beggars and thing of the past.” Zamora said dents were told to analyze and answered in competition was and facilitator of the competi noticed their harsh situation. he hopes that Romero’s mes define the nature of the prob “Where should Nouvell go tion said, “The universities “Romero started to see the sage will not be forgotten. lem of a troubled business. now?” The teams were to pre have twenty-four hours to han reality of conditions, but still “We are saying very little to The problem was a non-fic- sent possible solutions con dle a business, twenty minutes did not want to take sides,” the people now,” Zamora said. tional one about Nouvell Com cerning this question to a panel to make a presentation, and Zamora said. “We are transforming Romero puters and its battle with Mi of judges. twenty-five minutes to be Zamora explained Romero’s to a statue or a name in a his crosoft. Previously, Nouvell In describing the nature of quizzed by the judges.” transformation to advocate for tory book. We kill him by leav took over Wordperfect and the competition, Paul Conway, the poor of El Salvador during ing him in his own age, and his Cuatro Pro. The question to be associate professor of finance see MBA/ page 4 the last three years of message is still relevant today.” Commencement honorees named the Advancement of Science can diplomat in India, Ireland, Notre Dame’s 150th Twelve to join and Art in New York City was El Salvador, Taiwan, founded in 1859 and, through Bangladesh, South Africa, The Commencement Exercises main speaker its endowment, offers tuition- Netherlands and his homeland free undergraduate, training in of Australia. Ordained a priest art, architecture and engineer in 1949, he was elevated to Pedro Rossello Cardinal Edward Condoleezza ing. archbishop in 1970 and to car Governor of C assidy Puerto Rico Pontifical Council Special to the Observer dinal in 1991. Most recently he P resid en t • James Billington, librarian was appointed by Pope John Twelve distinguished national of Congress, doctor of laws. Paul II to the presiding council . " l a w and international figures in the Since his appointment in 1987 of the Central Committee for academy, the Church, public as the 13th librarian of the Jubilee Year 2000. * service and business will join Congress, Billington has de principal speaker Condoleezza Ray Siegfried II Desire’ Collen voted himself to modernizing • Desire Collen, professor of CEO of professor of Rice as honorary degree recipi America’s largest repository of medicine. University of Leuven m edicine ents at the University of Notre knowledge. A Russian scholar (Belgium), doctor of science. University of Leuven Dame’s 150th Commencement and the author of several ac Collen has taken his research exercises May 21 (Sunday). claimed books on that country’s in biochemistry, pharmacology Degrees will be conferred on history, he previously taught at and molecular biology from the some 1,800 undergraduate and his alma mater, Princeton Uni laboratory to the bedside, par S T " 1 550 advanced degree candi versity, and directed the ticularly in the development of Jose Zalaquett Roberto Goizueta dates in ceremonies beginning Woodrow Wilson International new agents to fight the forma T . t Human rights CEO for * " ■ at 2 p.m. (EST) join the Joyce Center for Scholars. tion of blood clots. Educated at activist 1p *s The Coca-Cocla Center. the University of Leuven, Collen mmdsM Com pany Rice, provost of Stanford Uni • Sister Maura Brannick, also holds faculty positions at versity and a 1975 graduate of C.S.C., founder and outreach th e U n iv ersity of V erm o n t’s Notre Dame, will receive an coordinator, Saint Joseph’s College of Medicine and Har honorary doctor of laws de Chapin Street Health Center, vard Medical School. He was gree. doctor of laws. A member of served as served as chairman Eleanor Baum Alan Greenspan first woman dean Federal Reserve The other honorary degree the Congregation of the Sisters of the International Society for of an American System recipients are: of the Holy Cross, Brannick Fibrinolysis and Thrombolysis engineering school Board Chairman founded the Chapin Street and is a member of the Royal • Eleanor Baum, dean of the Center in 1986 to meet the Academy of Medicine in Bel Nerken School of Engineering, healthcare needs of low-income gium. The Cooper Union, doctor of residents of South Bend’s near engineering. The first woman west side. From humble be • Roberto Goizueta, chairman James Billington William Hickey dean of an American engineer ginnings, the center has ex of the board and chief execu Librarian of P resid en t ing school, Baum has worked panded to become a model for tive officer, The Coca-Cola C ongress Saint Mary's College to dispel stereotypes about the clinics throughout the commu Company, doctor of laws. A profession and to attract more nity and the country and in native of Havana, Goizueta minorities and women. Born in 1991 received a Point of Light joined Coca-Cola in 1954 as a Poland and an electrical engi award from President Bush. chemical engineer and worked neer by training, she was ap • Cardinal Edward Cassidy, his way up on the technical pointed dean in 1984 and has president, Pontifical Council for side of the corporation until he Sister Maura Dolores Lackey led Cooper Union’s engineering Promoting Christian Unity, doc was named to lead the world’s B rannick, CSC. Executive Director school to a No. 2 national rank tor of laws. In is current post largest soft-drink company in Founder of Chapin the bishops' treat Health Center conferen ce ing in a survey of specialty since 1989, Cassidy previously - ' schools. The Cooper Union for served the Holy See as a Vati see DEGREES/ page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Wednesday, March 22, 1995 INSIDE COLUMN fORLD AT A GLANCE The great Birch bark provides a possible cure for skin cancer NEW YORK The peeling white bark of a common Grace birch tree may contain a weapon against the deadly skin cancer melanoma. The paper birch A substance found in birch bark shrank tree and melanoma diaspora human melanoma tumors placed in mice, Betulinic acid, a compound found in virtually eradicating some cancers, re birch bark, has shrunk human skin searcher John Pezzuto said. There seems to be some sort of curse on cancer tumors placed in laboratory mice. The compound, betulinic acid, caused no If the compound works in people, it could the male Domers in my family. None of them apparent side effects in the mice. 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