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T he ^University5^ News
www.udallasnews.com
University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
September 14, 2010
Presidential Inauguration:
campus response
Monica Diodati
News Editor
Thomas Keefe was installed
as the eighth president of
the University of Dallas
during the Mass of the
Holy Spirit on Friday, Sept. 1 0.
Though the turnout was not
as big as expected, the University
representatives - faculty and staff
members, members of the Board of
Trustees, Keefe and his family, and
representatives from the student
and alumni bodies - along with
other alumni and students filled the
church to near capacity.
The Inauguration ceremony
itself took place after the homily,
when Bishop Kevin Farrell of the
Diocese of Dallas raised his hands
and recited a blessing over Keefe,
The bishop then placed a medallion
around Keefe's neck.
At the conclusion of the Mass,
Keefe returned to the altar to deliver
some remarks. He shared his vision
that, within the next five years, UD
will achieve the national recognition
that it deserves.
"I commit myself and my
presidency to make sure that we
not only are a great university
but we are recognized as a great
university," he said.
After the ceremony, and
before the president left for his
inauguration galaatthe Omni Hotel,
the mall was bustling with students,
faculty, administration, board
members and alumni chatting,
eating kabobs and sipping wine.
The student band Despairagus
played their original tunes from
the patio of the science building,
overlooking the crowd below.
"I think it went well," said Keefe
of the inauguration. Starting the
school year with a Mass of the Holy
Spirit, he said, is always a good
way to start. Also, "to combine the
see RESPONSE, page 4
Photo by JulianneWatkins
Thomas Keefe kneels before Bishop Kevin Farrell, who reads a blessing from a book held
by Holy Trinity seminarian Emmett Hall, as he inaugurates Keefe as eighth president
of the University of Dallas on Sept. 10. See pages 8 - 9 for more photos from the Mass
of the Holy Spirit and for excerpts of remarks by Farrell and Keefe.
Getting to Rome: A story in Itself
Molly Rawicki
Contributing Writer
Photo by Molly Rawicki
I iz Santorum (left). Eve Christianson and Mary-Elizabeth Zabilski are
already in love with Rome. The sophomores stand in front of Italian
graffiti ("Ti A mo!" means "I love you!") on a wall in Rome.
started off the Rome semester in quite
the unconventional way. I decided last
year that I wanted to fly out of Dallas,
rather than Houston, my hometown,
to be on the group flight and to set off
on this "chance of a lifetime" that I had
heard so very much about from all of my
friends, everyday, from morning till night.
After I made it in, it really sunk in that
pretty much everyone I hung out with
was staying in Irving for the semester,
making me more and more nervous as
the summer went on. I must have packed
more nervously than I realized, because
after I drove four hours to Dallas and was
standing in the airport watching all of
my future classmates print their tickets,
I realized that 1 forgot my passport, visa
and pretty much every other important
document in a nice neat folder, back
in Houston. So after quite the tearful
headache, I arrived to the beautiful Rome
campus two days after everyone else, with
the knowledge that I would now be the
poster-child of "what not to do" at every
pre-Rome meeting forge nerations to come.
But since I stepped foot on the
campus, the headache has melted away.
Outside of my window, I see a view of the
Roman umbrella pines and small town
homes as far as the eye can see, right
over the mini amphitheater located on
campus. The weather is perfect and we
are constantly sneaking off in between
reading Sophocles to pick a fresh fig
or some grapes from the vineyard. We
have taken class trips into Rome and
have seen the Capitoline Museum, which
houses the sculpture of the famous
She-wolf that suckled Romulus and
Remus, not to mention two gorgeous
see ROME, page 4
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Chee, Gabbi. The University News (Irving, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 2, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 14, 2010, newspaper, September 14, 2010; Irving, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth201526/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Dallas.