University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook

“niver :y«# -V ^ Under the Dome Tlic Miiin BiiilJinfj, with Its jjolJcn dome, is the image miist uni\ers;illy as- siKiated with Notre Dame. Home to m < ist of the AJminis- traticTv, a \Tiriet\ of classrixmis. ;uid lliistoric architecture inside ;ind out, the building is the hallmark > .^ the L ' niversit > -. of iNlotreUame As I sit in the hiscmait o( Soutli l^nin^ Hall on a Ixwiitifiil August day, niy niind sooiiis fixatai on the year ahead ot me, m\ hist ye^ar at Notre Dame. Girnpus is slo\l > ' coming hack to life iis the first nish of students moves in. It was onK three years ago that 1 was arriving on campus for the \ ' er > ' first time. And though they were the quick- est tliree years of m\ ' life, the\- were the mc- > st wonderful, the most influci-itial i d the mc- > st memorahle. 1 caii only iniaguie what awaits me tliis year. Notre Dame hiis triinsfonnai me, has ele\-ated me to a place I ne\er thought possiWe. Tlie University seems to i- > a\e that cffcxn on her students in iJmost e\ ' er > ' iisjXMt o( their li\-es - spiri- tual, academic i d scxial, to name a few. Tlie results am Iv seai in ever^ ' student, every graduate; and as they kx^k up to the Gt-ildai Dome, to the creiss atop the Basilica, to Tcuiclukmii Jesus, they realize that thev are fore\ ' er changed, fore\ ' er elexatal W the spirit of the Uriiversity of Notre Dame. H\en iipm lea\ing, the spirit of this University seems ingraiiuxl in all who pass rhrcuigh here, and with them thcA ' take something in\ ' aluahle - a pcmianent place in the Notre Danie family. ”