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Anyone who remembers being in O=Shaughnessy during a class change remembers a traffic jam. The problem was that when doors on opposite sides of the hall swung open, they effectively narrowed the corridor to less than three feet wide. But no more. About 25 doors were redone this summer so they now swing inward. . . . The stately and sprawling, but often barren, old saucer magnolias in front of the Main Building are gone. They were taken out last April and replaced with two pink dogwoods. The trees, one of which was at least 80 years old, were beautiful in bloom, but magnolias bloom early in the spring and Notre Dame=s often fell victim to northern Indiana=s late frosts. . . . Keenan Hall residents and many others on and off campus said goodbye to a long-time friend at the end of the school year. Brother Bonaventure Scully, CFX, has moved out of Keenan after 14 years as the hall=s rector. Besides being keeper of the Keenan Revue zoo for more than half of the show=s 23 years, he taught a freshman seminar 10 years and was co-founder of the Notre Dame Encounter. He also cooked dinner every Monday night at the Dismas House halfway house for ex-convicts all 14 years he was here. Now 71, ABrother,@ as everyone called him, has moved to Baltimore, where his order, the Xavieran Brothers, has its U.S. headquarters. He says he=s taking some time off to rest and relax but expects eventually to begin working with volunteers in Baltimore=s inner city. . . . Among the advice offered by Father Beauchamp, CSC, to the Class of =99 during the seniors= ceremonial last visit to the Grotto was to guard against underestimation: AMy prayer for all of you tonight is that you will not accomplish all of your dreams simply because you dreamed too little.@ . . . NFL Films is doing a piece on Notre Dame interhall football. It=s expected to air on NFL Films Presents on ESPN and ESPN2 in December or January. . . . Forget about trying out the new Warren Golf Course, at the northeast corner of Juniper and Douglas, this fall. Course managers were hoping for a Labor Day grand opening, but a persistent summer drought coupled with high humidity made infancy miserable for grass seed planted last May. Every fairway had to be overseeded in August. The new target opening is next spring. When it does open, playing the new course won=t be cheap. Greens fees for the general public are expected to run $60 to $70 with cart. There will be discounts for students, employees and alumni. . . . More than a dozen vehicles were broken into on campus in the days leading up to commencement in May, many of them in the D6 parking lot. That=s the one adjacent to the Security Building, the H.Q. of Campus Security/Police. A surveillance camera has since been installed on top of the building. . . . AFlex points@ have rapidly become part of the vocabulary, and diet, of most students. In the program=s first year, about 80 percent of students living on campus signed up for the Flex 14 meal plan, which costs the same as the traditional 21-meals-per-week plan and provides a maximum of only 14 meals a week in the dining halls. But you also get $200 in electronic funds (Flex points) credited to your student ID each semester. With a swipe of your card, you can spend Flex points like cash at several food-service outlets apart from the dining halls, including the new Burger King in the Huddle. The 80 percent participation rate was about what food service managers had expected. . . . We=ve heard of no plans to change the name of Bookstore Basketball, but a change is arguably in order. The parking lot behind the old bookstore where the first tournament games were played more than 25 years ago was torn up this summer when the bookstore was torn down. . . . Overheard from a student on her way to the opulent new Hammes bookstore, the larger component of the Eck Center: AIt=s going to be weird going in here just for a highlighter.@. . . . Football fans who pay close attention to rosters may have noticed that Notre Dame=s opponents last year had on their teams Chaka Khan, Ted Nugent and ARamon Noodles.@ We=re writing here of fans who pay close attention to the rosters printed in The Observer. It=s apparently become a tradition for the editors of the student paper=s weekly Irish Insider insert to round out the opposing team=s numerical listings with staff members= own names and some even unlikelier ones. Accordingly, Arizona State had on its roster a 4-foot 2-inch kicker named Charlie Brown. Sharing the number 25 for USC were real-life wide receiver Mike Bastianelli and 5-3 ALittle BigDrinker.@ The nuclear power tycoon once described by Homer Simpson (The Simpsons) as a buck-toothed old mummy with girl arms C Montgomery Burns C turned up as an 87-pound Midshipman for Navy. And Boston College featured the duos of Nathan and Giveupthe Funk, David and Francis Ford Coppola, and Matt Knapp and the presumably unrelated Ineeda Nap. . . . Speaking of unsanctioned editing, earlier this year someone had a little fun at the expense of the Arby=s on U.S. 31 Business, just north of campus. The message panel on the restaurant=s sign read: ANow hiring losers.@ Either it blew off or somebody made off with the letter Ac@ from closers. | ||
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