USD Magazine, Winter 2000

WINTER 2000 volume 15 • no. 2 USD MAGAZINE features On Any Given Sunday by John Titchen 7 Monsignor Daniel Dillabough does

USD Alumni Magazine

EDITOR Susan Herold e-mail: Sherold@acusd.edu

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Michael R. Haskins John Ticchen DESIGN & PRODUCTION Warner Design Associates, Inc. PHOTOGRAPHERS Pablo Mason Rodney Nakamoto Gary Payne '86 Marshall Williams ADVISORY BOARD Arian E. Collins '87 Laura Hale '92 Thomas Scharf '72 (M.A. '73) Prof. David Su!Jivan PRESIDENT Alice Bourke Hayes VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY RELATIONS John G. McNamara DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI USD Magazine is published quarrerly by the University of San Diego for ics alumni, parenrs and friends. Edirorial offices: USD Magazine, Publicarions Office, University ofSan Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92 110-2492. Third-class poscage paid arSan Diego, CA92110. USO phone num– ber (6 19) 260-4600; emergency securiry (6 19) 260-2222; disasrer (6 19) 260-4534. Posrmasrer: Send address changes ro USD Magazine, PublicarionsOffice, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110-2492. RELATIONS John Trifiletti 78 Univenity of San Diego

double duty as chaplain to the San Diego Chargers and vice president of mission and ministry.

Mending Broken Hearts by Susan Herold 8 Tbilisi's children get needed cardiac surgery thanks to alumna Cindy Basso Eaton's tenacity. Doctor Mom by Michael R. Haskins 9 A little giggling goes a long way in raking the fear our of Mary (Kovac) O'Connor's young patients. Split Decision by Susan Herold IO Judge H . Lee Sarok.in, USD's Distinguished Jurist in Residence, freed pro boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who spent 19 years in prison before jus– tice prevailed.

departments

Alcala Almanac 4 New college savings programs give

tax breaks .. . Society of Sacred Heart celebrates its bicentennial ... English Professor Dennis Clausen's new novel tells a personal tale ... Latest designs for the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice.

Going High Tech 12 by john Titchen

Alumni Gallery 21 Nearly four decades after first meeting at USO, two alumni find true love ... Laura Stuart '92 is on pace for the Olympics ... Melissa Levey '97 finds the pen mightier than rhe sword. Calendar 31 "Biblical Jubilee and Jubilee 2000" .. . All Faith Service ... 12th Annual School of Nursing Lectureship ... Authors Judith

Professors and students anxiously await USD's proposed Science and Technology Center, which will replace outdated facil- ities one professor describes as "from rhe Stone Age."

A Question of Honor 16 by Michael R. Haskins

As surveys show cheating is common– place at campuses throughout the nation, universities are responding by examining the fundamentals of academic integrity. Ar USD, some believe an honor code system, in which students are trusted nor to cheat and ro moniror their classmates, could revolutionize the academic and social culcure.

Viorsr and Jon Woodson ... USO Symphony Scholarship Concert.

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