University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook

“road lo STAND at a crossroad is to reach 2. point of decision. Representing a coming together o^ people. IDEAS, dreams and intentions, crossroads can also SymbollZG i\ parting of ways. The Irish poet William Butler Yeats entitled a collection of POEMS " Crossways " at the END of the lUSt CefltUry to commemorate the CHANGE and diSCOVCry on\y possible at the DUSK and dawn of an ERA. Ehzabeth Dole ' s commencement address to the Notre Dame Class of 1999 defined the CURRENT AGE as a " new tuming pOlIlt. the turning of anew century, and new millennium.this crossroads. * Even New York City ' s New Year ' s Eve millennium FESTIVITIES were aptly entitled the " Slobal celebration at the CROSSROADS of the WOrld. " A QCStiricltlOn. bui also an inauguration, a beginning, but aiso a conclusion, the concurrent TURN of a deCadc. century. and MILLENNIUM carries us to a Cruciul crossroad in TIME. n the middle iif Indiuiia. the " Crossroai 1 of America. " lies ihe LIniverNily < Noire Dame. Inlerseclinj; palhs and wall ways connect Ihc i|u;iiirani!lo canipu-s. ”