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Volume XXXV, Number 6
University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
October 12, 2005
Panel to discuss usefu ness of UD education
by Monica Klein
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Hie U. Dallas Office of Alum-
ni, and the Career Development
Center have collaborated to pres-
ent a collection of alumni panel-
ists in an event titled No B.S.-How
to enter the Professional World with
Your UD Degree.
The event, to take place in the
Gorman Lecture Center Oct. 21,
will feature three speaker panels to
be moderated by professors from
U Dallas.
The speaker panels will run for
90 minutes, beginning at 3 pm,
and will be followed by a recep-
tion at 4:30.
Harriet Cousins, Associate Di-
rector of the Undergraduate Busi-
ness Programs at UD, commented
on the aim of the panels.
"What we want students to
understand is that with this won-
derful liberal arts degree there is a
wide variety of things you can do.
It's really taking that liberal arts
degree and using it as a spring-
board to do many great things,"
Cousins said.
"The impetus [for the panels]
has come from the alums them-
selves, who graduated from here
with a liberal arts degree, and who
know that you need to have some
focus and direction when you're
looking for something to do [after
graduation]" she said.
"That's why we're so proud of
it and that's why we think it's so
important for students."
The panels will feature alumni
from a wide range ol majors and
fields organized into three panels
arranged by topic: Corporate
Finance/Sales, Sciences and Math-
ematics, and Marketing/Promo-
tion/Journalism.
The speaker panels will allow
each of the participating alumni
to speak their background, before
going into a moderated discus-
sion format. There will also be
the opportunity for audience
questions.
"The panelists are going to talk
about how they got those jobs,
whether they've been in those
jobs a long time, whether they've
moved around," Cousins said
Each speaker panel will focus
on the applicability of a liberal arts
degree from U. Dallas in regards
to the range of careers available.
"When you come out of this
institution, you can write. You
can't imagine how employers are
looking for people who write well,
and a lot of other schools don't
focus on the writing aspect the
way we do," Cousins said.
Panelist Bob Hyde, Senior Pri-
vate Banker at the Dallas branch
of Wells Fargo said, commenting
on his education experience at
U. Dallas,"It taught me to be or-
ganized. It's a bit overwhelming.
It's comfortable, although it does
stretch you. There is a lot ol work;
it really exercises your brain."
"I liked the sense of commu-
nity. People really helped each
other out; there was a nurturing
atmosphere.
"I know 25 other people that I
associate with that I all met from
UD. I met my wife at UD, my son
graduated from UD in 2001, and
his wife is a UD graduate.
"It's just a neat little commu-
nity, and it's sustained this type of
atmosphere," Hyde said.
Panelists also speaking with
Hyde include Mark Grayson,
a 1987 graduate with a B.S. in
Bio-Chemistry, now an executive
editor in charge of a line of phys-
ics textbooks at Holt, Rhinehart,
and Winston.
Also speaking is Mercedes
Oliver, a columnist at The Dallas
Morning News.
Oliver was the first Hispanic
woman to write a weekly column
for a major metropolitan newspa-
per. Oliver graduated with a BA,
in Education.
The reception following the
speaker—panels will be an oppor-
tunity for students to introduce
themselves to the speakers for a
chance to speak with each panelist
one-on-one.
"These are people that they can
call and talk to," said Cousins.
The event is open to everyone,
but caters to upperclassmen pri-
marily.
"We're really focusing on ju-
niors and seniors, because they're
closer to actually using their edu-
cation," explained Cousins.
"We hope that they'll take off
that Friday afternoon and spend
an hour and a half with us to hear
these folks, because [the panelists]
did ten years ago what you all are
doing now."
Mission-trip to aid hurricane relief in lorida
by Monica Tomutsa
NEWS DITQR
Campus Ministry will host its
first informational meeting con-
cerning Alternative Spring Break
(ASB) tomorrow, Oct. 13 at 7
p.m. in Anselm Hall, room 230.
Twenty five students are ex-
pected to comprise the group
participating in ASB on a trip to
Pensacola, Fl. March 11-18.
The group will stay at The Con-
vent iff The Missionary Servants of
the Most Blessed Trinity.
"We will be working through
The Trinity Mission Center of
Cincinnati, OH, and will be do-
ing two things: cleaning up hur-
ricane damage from Dennis and
Ivan and ministering to and help-
ing the evacuees of Katrina and
Rita," Fr. Philip Powell, Campus
Minister said.
"In past years, ASB has gone
abroad to volunteer, but for the
safety of the students, UD admin-
istration has asked us to stay in the
U.S.," he continued.
"Originally The Mission Cen-
ter wanted us to go to an Indian
reservation in Arizona, but it soon
became clear that emergency help
was needed in Florida.
Costs for participation in ASB
will total around $425-450, with
an estimation of the round-trip
plane ticket at approximately
$300 and room and board at
$125.
However, the organizers expect
to help defray costs by fundraising
projects as poinsettia sales, gift-
wrapping at Barnes and Noble
during upcoming holidays and
car washes.
Archive photo/University News
Previous trips have often
gone abroad, but this year,
ASB is serving closer to home.
According to an ASB brochure,
fundraising events have raised
sums over $18,000 in the past.
Fundraisers other than Barnes
and Noble's gift-wrapping and
poinsettia sales plans will be
discussed after Campus Ministry
has a final list of expected partici-
pants for ASB by November 11,
he said.
"We should easily be able to
raise the money for each student
if we all get involved and work at
it. In the past, money has not been
a problem," Powell said.
"It's important, as part of the
mission experience, for students
to be involved in fundraising in
order to build community.
"We are going to have other
community building activities
in Florida, such as daily liturgy,
morning and evening prayer, and
daily mass.
"We will also have time for dis-
cussing daily events, theological
reflection, and scripture study.
"This is not going to be just a
work party. In fact, we are calling
this a pilgrimage-mission so we are
clear that everything we do here,
the journey there and the journey
back is all about the pilgrimage.
"It's about doing holy work
for the greater glory of God, and
keeping ourselves ever focused on
the fact that this is work we are do-
ing with God's help for His glory,
and the people of Pensacola.
"Since this is a pilgrimage and
a mission, we do not have an
iron-clad plan that we are going to
set on top of the missioners. We
are going to sit together and talk
about our schedule. For instance,
when to celebrate daily mass, have
study time, or end the work-day,"
Powell concluded.
Campus Ministry will host
a retreat in January to theologi-
cally prepare participants before
embarking on the pilgrimage to
Pensacola.
Watch, your bills in Tower Village...
by Dan Rueda
STAFF WRITER
Residents of Tower Village
Apartments were informed that
cancelled checks for rent payments
to Tower Village for the month of
June were recovered after an indi-
vidual in possession of the checks
was apprehended by Police officers
in Johnson County, Texas .
Johnson County is found at the
southwestern edge of the Dallas-
Fort Worth metro area, located 29
miles south of downtown.
All checks are original and
have already been deposited to
the Tower Village bank account.
Tower Village management nori-
Guest lecturer reminds of
America s Catholic Roots
fied residents of the incident after
recognizing the potential for iden-
tity theft.
In a notice delivered to affected
residents, Tower Village claims to
have no knowledge of how the rent
checks ended up in the hands of a
photo composite John Schuler/
University News
criminal in Johnson County.
Kim Rudolph, who issued the
notice on behalf of Tower Village,
and Cindi Swain, Rudolph's supe-
rior, declined comment.
by Monica Tomutsa
1EWS bp TOR
Contrary to the common view
of the American founding and its
influences, America was not only
founded by protestant Enlighten-
ment-educated thinkers, but was
also subtly influenced by Catholic
doctrine, Scott McDermott of
Vanderbilt University said.
"I do not claim that the other
colonial leaders consciously drew
on the Catholic political thought,"
he said. "It is fair to say that they
unwittingly reinvented the medi-
eval ideas of popular sovereignty
and the natural law tradition, and
that they also structured their new
governments in a way consistent
with Catholic political thought."
Only one Catholic, Charles
Carroll of Carollton, signed the
Declaration, but as the last surviv-
ing signer he was a "national icon
of his day," McDermott said.
Carroll was educated in France
by Jesuits since Catholic educa-
tion was illegal in his home state
of Maryland. In that time-pe-
riod, Jesuits were known for their
teachings that man had a right to
resist tyranny and they undoubt-
edly influenced Carroll's political
thought.
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