Saint Mary's Set to Inaugurate Mooney New President Confronts College's Enrollment, Visibility Challenges
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THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 39: ISSUE 70 FRIDAY, JANUARY 14,2005 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Saint Mary's set to inaugurate Mooney New president confronts College's enrollment, visibility challenges helm of the College for one Mary's recent struggle to gar ment, our admissions, By MEGAN O'NEIL semester. ner national attention and increasing our classes," Assistant News Editor The inaugural weekend will attract applicants. This year's Mooney said. "That's some include a day-long academic freshman class had roughly thing I know we will be Saturday's presidential symposium moderated by fac 50 fewer students than the attacking soon." inauguration of Carol Mooney ulty members and a formal previous year's. Efforts so far have included officially marks new leader induction ceremony. The cam "It's difficult to convince a changes in recruiting tech ship and a new course of pus will host dozens of guests 17 -year old young woman niques and publications. The direction for Saint Mary's including Saint Mary's alum that [she wants] to be in an College has also created a College. nae and representatives from all-women's college in north new office at Saint Mary's - Mooney, a SeeA/so other colleges and universi ern Indiana," Mooney said. the vice president for enroll 1972 Saint ties. The new president has ment management. The posi Mary's gradu- "A New Era" While a celebratory and placed recruitment and tion's duties will include over ate and its pullout hopeful mood for the future of increasing the visibility of the seeing admissions, financial 11th president, the College surrounds the College at the top of her to do aid and retention at the was selected to inauguration, Mooney is well list. College. KELLY HIGGINS/The Observer replace predecessor Marilou aware of the challenges the "Marketing is a sort of dirty "We're fairly far along in the Saint Mary's President Carol Mooney Eldred in December 2003 and position entails. word in academia but we do fields questions in her office Thursday. has already served at the First among these is Saint really need to attack enroll- see FUTURE/ page 4 Former NO associate provost transitions into SMC role gracefully; reaches out to students "I am thrilled," she said. "It's was trying to do one and a half tunity, I hope, to get to know community. And I find that fun, By NICOLE ZOOK a privilege, and it's humbling - jobs," she said. "Notre Dame most people at Saint Mary's. a challenge." Assistant News Editor but I couldn't be happier." was wonderful to me. I got That's just not really possible at Mooney has already begun to Mooney, a 1972 graduate of many opportunities, but I've Notre Dame." solve her challenge in the short If she is under any stress as the College and 1977 graduate never had a second glance Mooney will be working with months she has been working her big day approaches, Carol of the University of Notre Dame back .... It was hard to leave, both a smaller student popula at Saint Mary's. She said she Mooney does not show it. Law School, was a law profes but I've not had a moment's tion and fewer staff members works well with the presidential Sitting in the Sister Madeleva sor at Notre Dame before serv regret a~ut doing so." than in her former role at Notre staff and has reached out to room in LeMans Hall, she ing as a Notre Dame vice presi Mooney said that her transi Dame, which she said will lead students throughout first gracefully shared answers and dent and associate provost. Her tion from Notre Dame to Saint to closer relationships. She semester. In the fall, she invited smiles with journalists from formal inauguration into her Mary's will hold some differ looks forward to that aspect of each residence hall to an open several television stations and role as the first lay alumna ences, the most marked being her future at Saint Mary's. tea or dessert night. newspapers Thursday, reveal president at Saint Mary's will the smaller size of the College "A person has a lot of con "I decided that was a good ing no sign of strain regarding take place tomorrow and compared to the University. stituencies to pay attention to," way to try to get out into each her inauguration as the Sunday. "The biggest difference is just Mooney said. "Students, faculty, of the residence halls, so I went eleventh president of Saint "In one sense a transition the size of the two institutions," parents, alumni, donors, bene Mary's College this weekend. occurred last spring, when I she said. "It gives me the oppor- factors - even the general see MOONEY/page 4 Sri Lankan Notre Dame student addresses tragedy, loss Junior recalls scenes of tsunami's devastation board the plane. It was Dec. By MEGHAN MARTIN 26, and Edirisinghe and his News Writer mother turned on the BBC to learn that a tsunami had hit Five weeks ago, Notre Dame their country, devastating junior Dina] Edirisinghe want miles of coastline and instant ed nothing more than to ly leaving tens of thousands of spend Christmas at a beach in people homeless. Edirisinghe his native Sri Lanka, some and his mother listened in thing that his family had done shock. "My initial reaction was, for years. llis parents, howev - er, had decided that they let's see if we can get home would celebrate the holidays and do something," he said. Above, damage from the in Amman, Jordan, where his "But if we did so, we would father manages a textile fac need to get back to the capi tsunami washes up on a tory. tal, and that would divert "I complained to my parents resources. We decided, why Sri Lankan about spending eight days in do that? So we remained in Jordan and not going to the Jordan for a few more days." shoreline. At right, Sri bt1ach in Sri Lanka," While the Edirisinghe fami Edirisinghe said. "If we were ly's frantic efforts to contact Lanka native and Notre in Sri Lanka. we would have friends and relatives in Sri gone to our ancestral home in Lanka proved largely futile in Dame student Dinal Galle [a city in the south of those first few days following Edirisinghe. the country! for Christmas the disaster, news reports day. But we were lucky. We provided them with informa weren't in the country that tion about the extent of the day." destruction. PHOTOS• BYTHE Instead, Edirisinghe and his Twenty-seven thousand Sri mother were on their way to Lankans, they learned, had ASSOCIATED PRESS catch a flight to Colombo, the been reported dead. Sri Lankan capital, when they ''I'm sure there are 41,000 ANDCHUY received a phone call from his father warning them not to see SRI LANKA/page 6 BENITEZ page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Friday, January 14, 2005 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT WAS THE BEST THING ABOUT WINTER BREAK? Here's to you, Culligan m_an With nvnrybody back at Notre Damn artnr a long winter break, most students ean tell you some thing that they missed while away Anne Kroeger Steve Friend Taryn Lewis Sarah Muscarella Craig Peters Michael Keller from school. Many people are glad sophomore sophomore freshman freshman sophomore sophomore to be baek with Badin Fisher McGlinn Pangborn St. Ed's Dillon their friends. Steve Coyer Others missed South Bend spe "Having no "Showering "Skyline, "Not having "Family, friends "Knowing I'm cialties like Eggs Sports Vlire obligations." without shoes. " Chipotle and parietals. " and the heat." coming back to B1mndiet at the Editor the Cincinnati 260 Flex dining hall or the , smell of ethanol in the evening. Ben gals. Points." For me personally, I am most grateful to have my nearly infinite supply of crisp clear Culligan water back. For those of you who don't know, Culligan spring water is delivered in five-gallon contain ers and can be found in many ol'fiees and dorm rooms on cam pus. Not only is it the most pure and refreshing water I know of, it also is dnlivnred by some of the IN BRIEF most unsung heroes at Notre Dame. These workers ... no, that is not The Notre Dame women's the right word ... I mean, legends swimming team takes on deserve to be reeognized and I'm Michigan and Illinois at 6 p.m. horn to toll thnir story. Forgive me tonight and at 10:30 a.m. if I seem to exaggerate but I assure tomorrow in the H.olfs Aquatic you, those men do exist. Center. Every two wonks my three room mates and I go through about 30 The soon-to-be-released gallons of Culligan water (six con Miramax film "The Choir" tainers) and at the end of those ("Les Choristes") will be shown two wonks we anxiously await the at 7 and 10 p.m. tonight in the arrival of a certain person. lie Browning Theatre of the arrivns wlwn we lnast suspect and DeBartolo Performing Arts brings with him a large handeart Center. The film is nominated ladnn with 40-pound jugs of water. for a Best Foreign Film Golden Sometimes his name is Ben; <;lobe Award and will be pre ol.lwr timns it is Dan. Hegardless, sented in Frnneh with English he is always tlw Culligan man to subtitles. Tickets must be us. reserved by calling 631-2800.