The former chief executive officer of the California Center for
the Arts has been hired to be chief administrator for the Marie
P. DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts, which is under construction
and expected to open in August 2004. Before becoming involved
in arts administration John A. Haynes worked a dozen years as
a television programming and production executive with CBS in
New York City and Los Angeles and with Viacom in Beverly Hills.
. . . Notre Dame, other colleges and universities, and a number
of other paper-gobbling businesses like Kinko's decided to stop
buying paper from Boise (formerly Boise Cascade), the giant timber
company, until the company stopped cutting centuries-old trees
in some undisturbed forests. The boycott apparently worked. Earlier
this year Boise reportedly began telling its customers that it
had ceased old-growth logging. . . . That fellow pictured in the
spring 2002 issue of this magazine holding his young son in his
arms in front of their new house on Notre Dame Avenue is now director
of the University's Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism.
Tim Matovina, associate professor of theology, succeeds R. Scott
Appleby, who had directed the center since 1994. Appleby is now
director of ND's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
. . . It's not often that people apologize publically for having
sex, but it happened last spring in The Observer. In
a letter published in the paper's last regular issue of the year,
an anonymous couple admitted to having first-time intercourse
with each other in the woman's dorm room after a formal dance
in the hall. They said they had both been drinking at parties
earlier in the evening. Hall staff and others overheard those
certain kind of noises coming from the room. A week later the
woman was called to a meeting with her rector; her boyfriend's
rector later became involved as well. The couple wrote that they
realized they had broken a serious University rule and wanted
to apologize for putting other residents and guests in "an awkward
position and unpleasant situation." They also said they had decided
they weren't yet ready for a sexual relationship. The letter didn't
specify what punishment they received other than to indicate that
because they had been honest about what happened the incident
was handled at the hall level instead of requiring a hearing before
Residence Life and Housing. You can read the letter on-line at
www.nd.edu/~observer/05012002/Viewpoint/9.html.
