ND to Graduate 2,030 Urda Follows in Family Tradition with Top Honor
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• From resignations to radio stations, it's FINAL FOUR FANTASY been a year of ups and downs at Notre Dame • Dreams were realized as the Irish p.5 women's basketball team, led by Beth • Top Ten news stories of 1993-97 • Notre Dame kicks off largest fundrais-- Morgan, reached the Final Four. - p.29 p. 4 ing drive in history p. 9 Friday, May 16, 1997 • Vol. XXX No. 136 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S ND to graduate 2,030 By HEATHER COCKS Administration, and 200 law News Editor students will be awarded degrees for their years of They graduated from enor work. mous lecture classes to tiny ''I'm a little nervous," discussion groups; from sec admitted senior Benjamin tion 3 5 in the end zone to Baltrano. "It's a combination section 29 at mid-field; from of nostalgia about the last Bridget's to the Linebacker four years, and excitement and Coach's; from dorms to for the future." I - off-campus apartments. Agreed Megan Shepherd, Now, over 2,030 seniors ''I'm overwhelmed. I've done will graduate from the a lot of thinking about my University of Notre Dame at time here and the special the 152nd Commencement people I've met, and I'm exercises on Sunday, scared to be saying goodbye exchanging the Golden Dome to them." for life in the real world. The majority of seniors had In addition, 260 master's positive things to say about and doctoral students in the their four years at Notre The Observer/Dan Cichalski The graduating seniors will bid farewell to the familiar campus Graduate School, 219 mas Dame and the lessons sights of the Golden Dome, LeMans Hall, and the Basilica. ter's degree students in the College of Business see ND GRAD I page 6 The Observer/Kevin Dalum SMC graduates 365 in I 50th commencement By LORI ALLEN ered that, because of the Linebacker, 8 years when I first drove in the front Kentucky congresswoman Anne Saint Mary's Editor a.m. classes are not such a good idea, gates of Saint Mary's," said senior Aimee Meagher Northup will be leaving the and have argued relentlessly with their Heimann. "As I leave now it is bitter graduates with parting words as the On a warm August morning the mem professors. sweet, I will take away with me memo 1997 commencement speaker for the bers of the class of 1997 turned onto the After countless hours of studying it all ries and friends that will last a lifetime." 150th graduation ceremony on tree-lined lane that leads to Saint Mary's comes down to one piece of paper. This Of the 365 degree candidates, 213 will Saturday, May 17. A 1970 alumna of College. Four years ago, they thought weekend, in the 150th Commencement receive a bachelor of arts degree, 66 will Saint Mary's, Northup became the first i that 8 a.m. classes were a good idea, exercises, 365 women will graduate graduate with a bachelor of science, 54 Kentucky woman elected to the U.S. that their professors were always right, from Saint Mary's College and receive with a bachelor of business administra House of Representatives in more than , and that the Linebacker was just a this piece of paper. tion, six with a bachelor of fine arts, and 60 years and the first Republican to rep defensive player on the football team. "I never could have imagined what the remaining four with a bachelor of resent Kentucky's Third Congressional Four years later, the seniors discov- would take place over the next four music. see SMC GRAD/ page 14 chedule • SMC VALEDICTORIAN Friday, May 16 Koritnik handles Nurses' Pinning Ceremony Urda follows in A6 L Honora COftVODitlon 4p Baccalaureate Mass 4 p. Notre D1me Chorale Concan busy balancing 6:30- Senior Reception family tradition 7:30p.m. Liturgical CHoir Concert 8-10 p.m. Breduate School Reatptlan act with success 8p.m. · Concert 9 p.m. -1 a.m. Graduation Denat with top honor By DAVID FREDDOSO Saturday, May 17 By LORI ALLEN News Writer 8:30 -11 a.m. 9:30a.m. Saint Mary's Editor It's not easy being perfect. It's even harder to 11:30 a.m. Noon Twenty-four years ago, Kathleen McGuire-Urda was be perfect for four consecutive years. selected to represent the Saint Mary's College class of But Anjanette Koritnik pulled it off somehow. Noon- 2 p.m. 2-3:30 p.m. 1973 as the valedictorian. Now, almost a quarter of a "''m far from perfect," laughed Koritnik, a 4:10p.m. century later, she will relive that moment as her chemistry major from Livonia, Mich. Maybe 4:30p.m. she's right, but she was still good enough to daughter graduates with the same honor. 5-6:30 p.m. "It is absolutely wonderful, a genuine thrill to watch maintain a cumulative GPA of 4.0 over her four 6:45-8 p.m. Kathleen receive this honor. I feel very fortunate and years at Notre Dame. Her hard work has proud," said McGuire-Urda. made her the valedictiorian of the University of Notre Dame's 1997 graduating class. Kathleen Urda, an English major with a minor in Koritnik, who was selected from among the history, will represent the Saint Mary's class of 1997 University's top-ranked seniors, had not even as the valedictorian, carrying on a family tradition. seriously considered going to Notre Dame until Urda's maternal grandmother, Grace Sullivan 1:30 p.m. McGuire, was one of the first lay women to teach at 2-4 p.m. see KORITNIK I page 14 see URDA/ page 14 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, May 16, 1997 • INSIIJE COLUMN • NOTRE DAME AT A GLANCE University gives O'Malley Award posthumously to Houck Special to The Observer "Professor Houck could former Ford and Danforth No regrets put morality in the coldest fellow, he had been a The University of Notre of souls simply through member of the Notre Dame's Frank O'Malley This is not my manifesto. This is not my his teaching," wrote one Dame faculty since 1957. Award, given annually by laundry list of everything that is wrong with student in nominating The O'Malley Award is student government and Notre Dame nor a megalomanic diatribe on Houck for the award. named for Francis the Notre Dame Alumni "Frank" O'Malley, who how the world should be. For reading se "When he died, the Association, has been biggest heart on campus died in 1974 after 42 lections of this nature, see the fmal paragraph. awarded posthumously to As with any institution, left with him." years as a member of John Houck, professor of Notre Dame is a reflection A native of Beloit, Wis., Notre Dame's English management and co department. of society, including its Houck was graduated director of Notre Dame's from the University in He was famed for his tendencies toward greed, Center for Ethics and selfishness and self 1953 and received a J.D. explorations of the rela Religious Values in degree from the Notre tionship between religious preservation. Institutions Business until his death in are made up of individu Dame Law School in belief and literary imagi December at age 65. 1955. He also held an nation. als, and no individual is Georges Bernanos, and The role of religious His "Modern Catholic immune from an occasion- MBA degree from the Graham Greene, was the belief and ethical values University of North Writers" course, which al lapse of compassion. Liz Foran most popular undergrad in business was the prin Carolina at Chapel Hill included the works of uate elective at Notre But 95 percent of the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus cipal subject of Houck's people who make up and a masters of law Gerard Manley Hopkins, Dame for more than three teaching and research. Paul Claudel, Leon Bloy, this school are some of degree from Harvard. A decades. the most talented, caring and dedicated indi viduals in the country. In any institution, a ND loses LaCugna, Booker small number of members can give a bad • NAMES FROM THE CLASS OF 1991 name to the rest. Notre Dame is lucky to have Catherine Mowry LaCugna, the Nancy R. Dreux pro a much smaller than average percentage of Special to The Observer fessor of theology, died of cancer on May 3, at Saint "bad apples." Joseph's Medical Center. But it is the small number of individuals at Every graduating class around the nation has certain LaCugna, a member of the University of Notre Dame the other extreme that make up the Notre members with unique histories, and the Notre Dame faculty since 1981, won the Frank Dame experience that everyone speaks of col class of 1997 is no exception. O'Malley undergraduate teaching lectively but experiences individually. • Kristina Ervin has academic, artistic, and acade award in 1993 and the Rev. Charles Occasionally a professor is genuinely excited mic talents, but will pursue none of those fields after E. Sheedy C.S.C. Award for excellence about teaching undergraduates - he gets per commencement. Instead, like approximately 10 percent in teaching in 1996. sonal satisfaction from seeing the broadening of her classmates, Ervin will devote one year of her post She primarily studied and taught of minds that his effort can create. This is the graduate life to volunteer service. Working with t~e the practical applications of the doc professor who becomes more than an educa AmeriCorps program La Casa de Esperanza, she will trine of the Trinity for the life of the tor and dares to befriend his students.