I; , Watch For Next Week's ! I . i ,/ Basketball Preview Issue •I I Edrrorial November 14, 1986 Scholastic Volume 128, Special Issue Editor- in- Chief Maher Mouasher Managing Editor Keith Harrison Jr. Design Editor Contents Alex Peltzer Production Manager Matthew Bradley General Manager Phil Coghlan The Decision Is Made Editorial By Maher Mouasher Larry Burke/Sports Catherine Coffey/Departments 4 Frank Lipo/News Greg Miller/Student Life Luci~n Niemeyer/Photography AImee Storin/Copy Chief Planning For The'Future Bob Winn/Student Life By Keith Harrison Jr. Administration 6 Pete Cespedes/Comptroller Juli~ Gschwind/Advertising MIke Hoban/Circulation Asst. Design Editor A Notre Dame Procession Sharon Dow 8 By Greg Miller Cover by Reem Mouasher The opinions expressed in Scholastic are those of the authors and editors of Scholastic and do not necessarily A Giant Step Forward represent the opinions of the entire edi­ By Greg Miller t~rial board of Scholastic or the Univer­ 12 sity of Notre Dame, its administration faculty, or student body. Editorials: unless otherwise indicated represent the opinion of the majority' of the edi­ torial board. How The Choice Is Made Scholastic is represented for national Compiled by Frank Lipo advertising by CASS student advertis­ 13 ing, Inc. Published weekly during the school year except during vacation and ex~mination periods, Scholastic is prmted at The Papers, Inc. Milford, IN 46542. The subscription rate is $18.75 Hesburgh Through The Years a year and back issues are available by from Scholastic. Please address all Compiled Aimee Storin manuscripts to Scholastic, Notre Dame, 14 IN 46556. All unsolicited material becomes the property of Scholastic. Copyright Scholastic. All rights reserved. None of the contents may be reproduced without permission. •I I Edrrorial November 14, 1986 Scholastic Volume 128, Special Issue Editor- in- Chief Maher Mouasher Managing Editor Keith Harrison Jr. Design Editor Contents Alex Peltzer Production Manager Matthew Bradley General Manager Phil Coghlan The Decision Is Made Editorial By Maher Mouasher Larry Burke/Sports Catherine Coffey/Departments 4 Frank Lipo/News Greg Miller/Student Life Luci~n Niemeyer/Photography AImee Storin/Copy Chief Planning For The'Future Bob Winn/Student Life By Keith Harrison Jr. Administration 6 Pete Cespedes/Comptroller Juli~ Gschwind/Advertising MIke Hoban/Circulation Asst. Design Editor A Notre Dame Procession Sharon Dow 8 By Greg Miller Cover by Reem Mouasher The opinions expressed in Scholastic are those of the authors and editors of Scholastic and do not necessarily A Giant Step Forward represent the opinions of the entire edi­ By Greg Miller t~rial board of Scholastic or the Univer­ 12 sity of Notre Dame, its administration faculty, or student body. Editorials: unless otherwise indicated represent the opinion of the majority' of the edi­ torial board. How The Choice Is Made Scholastic is represented for national Compiled by Frank Lipo advertising by CASS student advertis­ 13 ing, Inc. Published weekly during the school year except during vacation and ex~mination periods, Scholastic is prmted at The Papers, Inc. Milford, IN 46542. The subscription rate is $18.75 Hesburgh Through The Years a year and back issues are available by from Scholastic. Please address all Compiled Aimee Storin manuscripts to Scholastic, Notre Dame, 14 IN 46556. All unsolicited material becomes the property of Scholastic. Copyright Scholastic. All rights reserved. None of the contents may be reproduced without permission. 'I~t 1, Special Issue Special Issue Hesburgh was originally addition to the four administra­ the University were quick to deny scheduled to retire in 1981. That tors, the name of Father Michael the stories, it was clear that the selection process, though, was McCafferty, associate professor of two newspapers had not based aborted. The committee handling law, appeared on the list. While their stories on mere speculation. The Decision Is Made the search decided that no member some other names were still being Even though the official decision By Maher Mouasher of the Holy Cross order was ready mentioned in relation to the was yet to be made, many insiders to take Hesburgh's place. Hes­ presidency, it seemed unlikely that said that the presidential selection burgh agreed to stay for-five more anyone other than one of the five was fast becoming a one-horse years until promising young pri­ on the list would be named. race. All signals pointed to Malloy ests received more administrative as the committee's choice. Associate Provost Father Edward Malloy is selected experience. After mid-September the the University's 16th president by the Board of Trustees speculation on the Notre Dame At its meeting today, the board At that time, four young campus mounted. Students, of trustees confirmed these expec­ members of the Congregation of administrators, alumni and tations. With the presidential Holy Cross were appointed to members of the Holy Cross com­ selection the only item on its upper level administrative posts, munity alike discussed their favor­ afternoon agenda, it met and laid presumably to groom them for the ite candidates. The five candi­ to rest the rumors. More impor­ presidency. dates and the members of the hen the 1987-88 academic tantly, it met to decide who will be Board of Trustees received mes­ year begins in late August, In addition to Malloy, who was entrusted to guide the University W sages containing suggestions and into a crucial period of its Father Edward "Monk" named associate provost, Father nominations from those with any Malloy will be at the helm of the David Tyson was named executive existence. The final result was the connection to Notre Dame. University of Notre Dame. assistant to Hesburgh and in 1984 selection of 45-year-old Malloy. The Board of Trustees of the vice president for student affairs. The speculation reached its Malloy was born on May 3, University met at 2 this afternoon, Simultaneously, Father Ernest peak November 2 when the Chi­ 1941 in Washington D.C. He came with the selection of a new Bartell was named director of the cago Tribune reported in its Sun­ to Notre Dame as a scholarship president the sole item on· its Helen Kellogg Institute for Inter­ day edition that Malloy had been basketball player. After an agenda. Acting on a recommenda­ national Studies and Father William tion forwarded by its nominating Beauchamp was named adminis­ committee, it voted to elect Malloy trative assistant to Father Edmund the 16th president of the Univer- Joyce. Beauchamp later became sity. executive assistant to Hesburgh when Tyson became vice president Malloy specializes in the ethics for student affairs. of sexuality, war and peace, crime and punishment and biomedical For a few years after that, the matters, as they relate to the issue of replacing Hesburgh faded Catholic faith. He is the author of from the spotlight. Last spring, two books and numerous articles however, the nominating commit­ and reviews in a wide variety of tee of the Board of Trustees, theological and secular journals. under the leadership of then chair­ man of the board Thomas Carney, In addition to his current job, re-started the search for a new he serves as associate professor of president. He solicited the opin- theology, on the institutional . ions of the Notre Dame commun­ review boards at Saint Joseph's ity on the key qualities that a new chosen president. It quoted unimpressive court career, Malloy Medical Center and Memorial president must possess, thus bring­ "sources close to the University" turned his attention to academics, Hospital in South Bend, and as a ing the issue to the forefront of as saying that the trustees had gra­ garnering a B.A. and an M.A. in member of the board of regents at campus gossip once again. dually come to regard Malloy as English between 1963 and 1967, the University of Portland, a Holy the consensus choice for the and an M.A. in theology in 1969. Cross school. From that point, events in the presidency. He was ordained into the Holy selection process moved fairly Cross order at Sacred Heart In May, Malloy will succeed quickly. The committee inter­ On the same day, The Chicago Church in 1970. He then taught at Father Theodore Hesburgh, the viewed the main contenders and Sun-Times ran a somewhat more Aquinas Junior College in Nash­ man who has held that post for the met several times in order to nar­ conservative story saying that ville before returning to Notre last 35 years. row its selection to a manageable Malloy was the "rated choice" for Dame to join the faculty in the few. A short list soon emerged. In the presidency. While officials at department of theology. 4 Scholastic November 14, 1986 5 'I~t 1, Special Issue Special Issue Hesburgh was originally addition to the four administra­ the University were quick to deny scheduled to retire in 1981. That tors, the name of Father Michael the stories, it was clear that the selection process, though, was McCafferty, associate professor of two newspapers had not based aborted. The committee handling law, appeared on the list. While their stories on mere speculation. The Decision Is Made the search decided that no member some other names were still being Even though the official decision By Maher Mouasher of the Holy Cross order was ready mentioned in relation to the was yet to be made, many insiders to take Hesburgh's place. Hes­ presidency, it seemed unlikely that said that the presidential selection burgh agreed to stay for-five more anyone other than one of the five was fast becoming a one-horse years until promising young pri­ on the list would be named. race. All signals pointed to Malloy ests received more administrative as the committee's choice.