Word: dame
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...Notre Dame's incoming president was holding one of his first press conferences. Only sportswriters had shown up, one of them carrying a football, which he tossed to Father Theodore Martin Hesburgh, with a request that the priest assume the hike stance. "I'm not the coach," snapped the new leader of America's foremost collegiate football power, "I'm the president!" And he strode from the room. "That happened only once," recalls the 69-year-old Hesburgh, who is now preparing for his retirement; it will come next week, after a reign that is the longest and, by some...
...more important to Hesburgh have been the changes in Notre Dame's governance and its amalgam of scholars. In 1967 he persuaded the Congregation of Holy Cross, his order of priests and the founders of Notre Dame, to cede control of the institution to a lay board of trustees, though the school would remain Catholic and its president a priest of the order. This was a radical step in Catholic education, where virtue and even legitimacy are often judged by proximity to the church hierarchy. To Hesburgh, however, ecumenical leadership was essential to turning the university's vision outward toward...
...black, white, men, women, Hispanic, Protestant, Jewish," he told a campus newspaper + recently, "and they come from all over the country and beyond." He is equally pleased to have opened the doors of the formerly all-male school to women in 1972. Today about one-third of Notre Dame's students are female. To replace what he once described as "academic programs encrusted over the decades," Hesburgh insisted that students take an unusually extensive requirement of core courses (currently 39 hours out of the baccalaureate's 120), and he held to that principle through the curriculum-battering...
...junior from Indiana University. "You can't believe how friendly the people are," she said. "It isn't crazy like Lauderdale." The hospitable atmosphere has also kept the students from getting too far out of hand. "Lauderdale is packed and wild," observed Chris Deckel, 19, a University of Notre Dame sophomore. "This is a delight." The result: a laid-back, lovefest atmosphere suffused the hot, windy beaches. "There's not a lot of sleaze and guys trying to grab your butt," noted Molly Houser, 21, a University of Missouri senior...
...Crimson and Sioux last met in 1973 at a tournament in St. Louis, where they tied 2-2. Interestingly, while Harvard and UND have now reached the pinnacle of college hockey, the other two teams in that tourney, St. Louis and Notre Dame, have since dropped their programs...