USD Magazine Summer 2003 18.4 University of San Diego
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
University of San Diego Digital USD USD Magazine USD News Summer 2003 USD Magazine Summer 2003 18.4 University of San Diego Follow this and additional works at: http://digital.sandiego.edu/usdmagazine Digital USD Citation University of San Diego, "USD Magazine Summer 2003 18.4" (2003). USD Magazine. 37. http://digital.sandiego.edu/usdmagazine/37 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the USD News at Digital USD. It has been accepted for inclusion in USD Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital USD. For more information, please contact [email protected]. POE.$ u·sp SrTU, ff Atnrr You·?· We're gathering, tales about thing;; that g,o bump in the nig,ht for an upcoming, story about GHOSTS, PRANKS and URBAN LEGENDS at AJcala Park. Tell us your recollections of the mysterious, the funny and the macabre, and we'll share the suspenseful encounters in the next USD Magazine. Everyone who submits an idea will be entered into a random drawing, for USD g,ear. Please e-mail your ideas to mhaskins@sandieg,o.edu or call Mike Haskins at (619) 260-4684. SUMMER 2003 volume 18 • no. 4 University of San b1ego ArchiV&S USD MAGAZINE USD Magazine features www.sandiego.edu/publicati ons Reflections on the EDITOR 14 Life of a President Michae l R. Has kins '02 (M.A.) Mhas [email protected] During her eight years as USD president, Alice Bourke Hayes frequently seemed to CONTRIBUTING EDITORS be more than one person. But while she Cecilia Chan Cchan@sa ndiego.edu slipped effortlessly in and out of so many critical roles, each persona was a reflection Timoth y McKernan Ti [email protected] of her visionary leadership. departments Krysm Shrieve Diary of Discovery [email protected] Campus Almanac Scott Heidler '90 passed up a comfort New Views on Religion; Q&A with DESIGN & PRODUCTION 20 4 able career to document life in places USD President Mary Lyons. Also: Grads Barbara Ferguso n [email protected] where war rages, poverty abounds and say goodbye; science center opens; faculty hope often seems beyond reach. Each suggest a summer syllabus. STUDENT INTERN stop on his journey was a rite of passage, Li z Biebl '03 revealing more than he expected about Alumni Almanac PHOTOGRAPHERS the world, its people and himself. 8 Robert Wise '87 is an environmental Fred Greaves Mr. Clean. Also: Homecoming plans; a Scott Heidler '90 Minor Miracles Mars mission; cop reacher in the tundra. Rodney Nakamoto Professional baseball players make the Gary Payne '86 26 Faculty Almanac Brock Scott game look easy, but getting co the major Linda Robinson will document life on in Front cove r: Rodney Nakamoto leagues is a physical and mental struggle. 10 Five former Toreros are in the midst of the from lines of AIDS. Also: law prof l ,, University of San Diego chat struggle, hoping to make their analyzes greed; new nursing dean arri ves; dreams come true. innovative projects for professors. PRESIDENT Ma ry Lyo ns Sports Almanac EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 12 Rower Kelsey Watters sets a frenetic FOR COMMUNICATIONS pace. Also: Toreros send first swimmer AND MARKETING to NCAAs; cough finish for men's tennis. Harl an Corenman 1e. Alumni Gallery/Class Notes to DIRECTOR OF PUBLICATIONS 30 Kathryn Hole '84 makes the golden Michael R. Haskins years shine; Bridget Banner '95 is for USD Magazine is publ is hed quarterly by the birds; kids learn soccer and life the Uni ve rsity of San Diego for its alumni , skills from Carlos Gonzales '97. parents and fri ends. Editorial offices: USD Magazine, Publications Office, Uni ve rsity Alumni Regional Events of Sa n Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, Sa n Diego, CA 92 110-2492. Third-class postage paid 37 at Sa n Diego, CA 92 110. USD phone num be r (6 19) 260-4600; emergency security In Your Own Words (6 19) 260-2222; disaster (61 9) 260-4534 . 42 John Carlos Frey '85 found success Pos tm as ter: Send address changes to USD by making a film chat nobody wanted. Magazine, Publications Office, Un iversity of San Diego, 5998 Alcal a Park, San Diego, CA Calendar 92 1 I 0-2492. (0703/46000) 43 3 NEW VIE ON RELIG by Krystn Shrieve Campus Center Promotes Latino/a Perspectives rlando Espln's epiphany came at a conference, when a speaker won 0 dered aloud how the understanding of Catholicism might change if the subject was taught from a Latino point of view. Answering that question became a mission for the professor of theology and religious studies. He worked quickly. In 1996, a year after the conference, Espin opened USD's Center for the Study of Latino/a Catholicism. He first brought rogecher theologians from around the United Scares ro discuss how Latino perspectives could be better represented in education. The gatherings turned into a yearlong symposium, which crystallized in the Students armed with these insights, he says, And, in April, the center received an award of notion that Catholic theology should better will be more effective as rheology teachers or excellence from the Academy of Catholic reflect the makeup of the Catholic Church. when leading congregations. Hispanic Theologians of the United Scares. "Theology is the systematic reflection on The center hosts conferences and seminars Aquino says the center now is looking inro the faith as it has ro do with people and the with similar centers in Mexico, Puerro Rico, how Latino Catholic faith is affected by che world," explains Espin, adding char nearly the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Brazil and intersection of religion, culture, feminism half the Roman Catholics in the United Europe. Ir also funds research projects to and political power. This year, center repre Scates are Latino. ''And if the Church is so study new ideas for the next generation of sentatives will attend conferences addressing dramatically changed by the Latino presence, church leaders and theologians. The work the cultural, personal and religious conse it would be suicide not ro think of rheology represents a new school of thought in Catholic quences of migrations, and the effects of from chat perspective." theology, and Aquino says the church sup globalization on women. Espin and religious studies professors ports che center's efforts. Espin and Aquino know some answers ro Marfa Pilar Aquino and Gary Macy form the "The bishops with whom we work see our the question char inspires their work likely core team directing the center. They hope work as supportive of the Church's effort to won't come for at lease a generation. Bue they their research will help educators change how respond more efficiendy to the needs of che say the pursuit is as important as che goal. Catholicism is caught in seminaries and uni community," she says. "They appreciate what "This type of work must be seen as long vers ities. Espfn's goal is ro encourage educa we're doing." term," Aquino says. "Social changes cake tors to include che Latino perspective, and ro The center has received other endorsements. a long rime, but if we stop having visions of understand how Latinos interpret religion in Adminiscrarors at the University of Notre these changes, they'll never cake place." their lives and how it shapes their behaviors, Dame scrapped plans to scare their own center For more information, log on to commitments, values and self-perceptions. when they saw the progress made at USD. www.sandiego. edultheollatino-cath. html. 4 USO MAGAZINE A Bittersweet Farewell who designed rhe installation, tided Upward Bound T he 3,500-square-foot lab More than 1,900 srudents - and "The Experiment." Gets Boost opened rhis year at the Alcala West one president - left USO after chis T he interactivity comes from four Just days afrer US D's Upward office park. It includes gurneys and year's commencement ceremonies , touch-screen computers mounted on Bound program, which prepares wheelchairs, blood pressure cuffs held May 24-25. The new alumni rhe lobby walls, each displaying hi gh school students for higher edu and IV poles, and all d1 e equipment departed with diplomas in hand, images relared to one of the four sci cation, sent two doze n students and instruments used for a typical while retiring President Alice B. ence disciplines housed in the center. onward to colleges, rhe university medical check-up. H ayes told graduates at the week Refl ecrion comes from rhe srainless received nearly $1 million to contin Beds are fitted with hospital end's rhree ceremonies char she sreel display panels and a stainless ue the program for four more years. sheets - neatly folded with hospital leaves USO wirh "a deep apprecia steel floor place. By interactin g wirh News of the $938,496 grant from corners, of co urse. Weighted man tion for rhe spirit of community, the screens, visitors can change pat the U.S. Department of Educarion nequins help students learn to prop of friendship, of faith, of intellectual terns in the lights, which are lin ked followed rh e graduation of 25 erl y lift and move patients. vigo r and academic integri ty you to morion sensors and glow only Upward Bound partici pants from have helped us build in rhis beauri when someone is in the space. Kearny High School, many of ful place." Other artistic touches in rhe four whom joined rhe program as fresh The School of Law graduated 349 story building include a floor mosaic men when it was implemented in students on May 24 at rhe Jenny char shows what a rissue sample 1999.