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Finding your place Sacrificing more than time Keep tabs on Commencement activities at Saint Mary ·s One MBA degree candidate juggled a two-hour Friday and Notre Dame with The Observer's schedule of events. commute and a family of six to earn his diploma from Notre Dame. MAY 18,2001 News • page 2 Scene • page 22 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIV NO. 134 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Friday, May 18, 2001 INSIDE COLUMN Events of the Weekend 5-6:30p.m. The ride FRIDAY. MAY 18 COMMENCEMENT MASS Joyce Center- South' Dome 2~4 ·-·· of a lifetime p.m. 6i4$:-;8 p.m. ttM~GE OF ARTS AND LEITERS HONORS ~-JlATION DINNER CONVOCATION 4 p.m. Joy&jJenter and North Dining Hall I'm going to die. I'm going to die. Washington Hall BACCALAUREATE MASS We're all going to die. ·.. -~ 0:c ·. ~ SUNDAY, MAY 20 These are the thoughts that raced through my Angela Athletic Facility .. head atop a 200-ft. roller coaster a few days ago. 9:45 and 11 :45 a.m. 7:30- 10:30 p.m. 1 gripped the handlebars and braced myself for ,..,... .... · COMMENCEMENT LI'ft!RGY the 70 mileAlour plunge. 9~p~l) a.m. SENIOR RECEPTION Century Cent~r x_i:· / Church of Loretto '<.·... Hair in my sweat-soaked {~{JATION DANCE ~~--#/ .... face, my heart leapt into my ')~f~:eenter- North Dome throat. Finally, the big drop 12:lSJl·m· was behind me. dj· '~'.· 'ijUTION OF BACHELOR AND MASTER dj. ·;,;;',i AS Or so I thought. \· Just as my heart rate IiJ . , ·· enter - North Dome. calmed, there came another Guests may begin entering Gate 10. loop, and another, and :}· '>~';t;.'~;&;l .· nter - South Dome .· .•~_,._ . ·'k .... another. As soon as I real­ 2. .--~~· ized that there were more I Christine Kraly "'" . ·. NCEMENT AND CONFERRING OF . lessened my grip and let . SEND-OFF CEREMONY • myself go. Joyce Center - South Dome I swallowed hard and let Senior Staff ~~;~ my screams turn to laughter. Writer I looked ahead to the drops {.HOOL DIPLOMA CEREMONY and corkscrews in front of flei{urgb Library Reflecting Pool me, and smiled. Ironically, these are my feelings as I face the most dreaded two words any unemployed, loan­ paying graduate encounters: real world. My outlook on the future changes from one minute to the next: it dips, turns, rises and plum­ ND, SMC award mets in a heartbeat. When friends and class­ Higgins wins laetare Medal mates are going off to grad school or having fam­ honorary degrees ilies I find it difficult to see myself in the world shows how an ardent embrace of By ALYSON TOMME Catholic doctrine intensifies the (the,greater world, of course, that exists outside News Writer Notre Dame and Saint Mary's will South Bend). hunger and thirst for justice," said award honorary degrees to distin­ Mostly, it's difficult to imagine stepping off this University President Father Edward guished figures in a variety of fields four-year tilt-a-whirl we call Notre Dame. Am I Monsignor George Higgins can now Malloy. "We want to honor him for this weekend. ready for real responsibility, for these funny, include himself in the company of following Jesus, a carpenter's son, Notre Dame recipients include: real-world things called "benefits?" former President John F. Kennedy, and heeding a vocation to serve his President Bush; John Bahcall, dis­ Yes, I am. Because I knew the ride had to end. social activist Sister Helen Prejean Lord in the workers of the world." tinguished astrophysicist; Father I knew that one day the classes would fmish, The and Catholic Higgins' career began by serving Cyprian Davis, professor of church Observer presses would stop and I would need to Worker founder the social action staff of the National history at Saint Meinrad School of face the next daunting drop called adulthood. Dorothy Day. As Catholic Welfare Conference (now the Theology; Marilou Eldred, president Throughout the years, the drops have become the recipient of United States Catholic Conference). of Saint Mary's; Louis Gerstner, Jr., less scary. I have terrific friends taking the same the University's where he was appointed director in chairman of the board and chief freaky ride who have eased my stomach and Laetare Medal 1954. In 1979, the National executive officer of IBM; John calmed my nerves at every new twist. My friend­ for the year Conference of Catholic Bishops Jordan II, founder of The Jordan ship with them has taught me that no drop is so 2001. Higgins selected Higgins as the secretary for Company and a Notre Dame trustee; steep that I can't handle. has distin- special concerns. He subsequent~y William Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize­ Nothing in life seems so big when a fly.girl, a guished himself Higgins retired to teach theology at Cathohc winning author; Archbishop as a prominent University. hypochondriac, a rock star and a comedian face Giuseppe Pittau, secretary of t~e it together. and honorable American Catholic. Organized labor has always. ~een Congregation for Catholic I also know that though one ride is ending, "I look at the list of who's received Higgins passion. \\'hether participat­ Education; Sara Martinez Tucker, it before - some I've known person­ ing in rallies or speaking at inter~a­ there are hundreds of new rides ahead of me, president and chief executive offic~r ally or by reputation - and they are tional meetings, he became a leadmg urging me to get in and buckle up. And. I won'~ of the National Hispanic Scholarship die- not from a new ride, a new step m my hfe. very distinguished," he said. "It feels advocate of organized labor. Fund; and Andrew Viterbi, I've learned to deal with my anxiety and antici­ very humbling to be in the same cate­ His list of honors has been merely cofounder of Qualcomm and now gory." pation. All those crazy thoughts of "Chapter ~ 1 in lengthened as the recent recipient of president of Viterbi Group, LLC. six months," or "What curtains would look mce The Laetare Medal, the oldest and the Laetare Medal. He was awarded Saint Mary's recipients include: in my cardboard box?" are normal and will fade most prestigious mark of distinction an honorary degree from Notre Brother Richard Gilman, president away. This is, of course, what I tell myself and among Catholics, was awarded to Dame, which was followed by a labor of Holy Cross College; Margaret my family as I sit here jobless and waiting for Higgins for his work as a scholar, studies center named in his honor in McCarthy, an accomplished writer every loan student's favorite department to hunt activist and labor priest within the 1993. and lecturer for the college; and me down. Catholic Church of America. He will He published a book entitled Ernestine Raclin, a leader in busi­ I know that at the peak of each new plunge, I receive the medal on May 20th dur­ "Organized Labor and the Church: ness, education and voluntary com­ ing the University's 156th will look to my family and friends for inspiration. Reflections of a Labor Priest" and munity and social service activities Commencement proceedings. I'll look to my father for the shoulder to cry on. received the Presidential Medal of at the local, state and national lev­ my mother to tell me to dry my eyes and find a "The long career of George Higgins Freedom. els. job. And to my sister, of course, to make fun of the both of them. I'm sure I'll look to them this weekend, to pinch my arm and remind me of the a~azing LOCAL WEATHER NATIONAL WEATHER ride I've just taken, and the ones that lie ahead. I'll grip my cap and smile in the face of the corkscrews. I'll embrace the twists and turns. conditions and Come on life, bring on the big drops. 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Houston 86 68 Philadelphia 72 55 washmgton, DC 87 69 Friday, May 18, 2001 Tht Observer+ CAMPUS NEWS page 3 Farewell to graduating seniors "My experience at Notre Dame has By KIFLIN TURNER been a very good one, I wouldn't change Assistant News Editor it for the world. I've been through a lot of trying times and good times too - In a few days, nearly 3,000 students and that comes with life," said Notre will receive their diplomas and become Dame senior Antione Tobias. The acad­ alumni, no longer students of their emic experience has also been impor­ respective schools.
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