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Volume 51, Issue 115 | thursday, april 6, 2017 | ndsmcobserver.com
‘He lived his life with the utmost integrity’ Notre Dame community remembers Edward Lim, a former Morrissey resident, with memorial Mass By COURTNEY BECKER News Editor
Edward Lim “loved three things above all else,” according to junior Brian Celeste, Lim’s roommate during his sophomore year. “He loved his friends and he loved music and he loved philosophy,” Celeste said. “The people he did get close to, he got very, very close to, and he cared very deeply about those people.” Lim died Friday at his home in Cincinnati. Although Lim was not enrolled at the University during the 2016-2017 academic year, Celeste said Lim had still significantly impacted him during his time at Notre Dame. “He became, really, my first friend that I had since coming to Notre Dame,” he said. “ … Once we became roommates, that’s when I started really discovering all these things about him and how he would constantly bounce his ideas off people.” Junior Joe Raabe, who met Lim
in high school as a member of the rowing team, said Lim “was respected and well liked by everyone who knew him.” “One day after practice, one of the coaches’ boats became untied and was floating away,” Raabe said in an email. “We had been out in the heavy rain and 35-degree weather for at least two hours. Edward jumped in the river and dragged the boat back to shore. That was Edward. He lived his life with the utmost integrity.” Junior Mary Mecca, Lim’s girlfriend of over a year, said Lim was a great listener as a friend. “He highly valued authenticity, and he was always searching — in everything he did,” she said. “ … He would ask you a question and then just listen because he was searching for information on who you were and what sort of a person you could be, and he was very inspirational in that regard.” Lim found a family at Notre see LIM PAGE 3
Photo courtesy of Thomas Clarke
Candles at the Grotto commemorate Edward Lim, a former Notre Dame student who died Friday at his home in Cincinnati. A memorial Mass was celebrated Wednesday night at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
Nine students receive funding from USAID Observer Staff Report
The University announced Monday that nine students have been selected to receive funding through the United States Agency for International Development to study global development challenges. The nine students who were selected include five doctoral students, Tracy-Lynn Cleary, Jenna
Davidson, Catherine Flanley, Kristina Hook and Emily Maiden; two Master of Science students, Lilian Ramos and Megan Wright; and two undergraduate seniors, Lauran Feist and Samuel Lucas. “Today’s global development challenges need bold, innovative thinkers and solutions,” Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD)
managing director, Michael Sweikar said in a statement. “NDIGD is thrilled to once again support some of the University’s most promising students in this opportunity to develop their research and create meaningful change.” According to the statement, the students w ill complete their research projects throughout 2017 and 2018.
Alumna explores career path By COLLEEN ZEWE News Writer
Nichole Ornelas, currently an Associate Program Director at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Indianapolis, spoke Wednesday at Saint Mary’s about her career path and the lessons she’s learned since her time at Saint Mary’s. Ornelas graduated from the college in 2005 with a major in communication studies and a minor
in business administration. As a college senior, Ornelas worked an internship at a local TV station. Even though the internship was difficult and time-consuming, Ornelas said it helped give her the work ethic she needed for career success. “It was a great experience, and I learned a lot,” she said “Most importantly, I learned see ALUMNA PAGE 3
Professor discusses fashion trends of 1940s On Wednesday evening associate professor of history Linda Przybyszewski presented a comprehensive history of the dramatic changes in American fashion during the 1940s and entering the
1950s in her lecture titled “Forties Fashion: Devil in a Blue Dress and Pink Overalls.” With World War II efforts in full force in 1943, both men and women’s dress shifted, adapting to complement both the war’s nationalistic message as well as complying with the necessity to reduce fabric, she said.
Men’s fashion in particular focused intently on uniforms, Przybyszewski said, showing an appreciation for and dedication to military dress and therefore the U.S. wartime spirit. “The military tried to recruit people and having the American flag, or the colors of the flag, in
clothing became extremely important,” she said. According to Pryzbyszewski, contrasting with this militaristic state of mind, the “zoot suit” also became popularized as an impractical, yet fun fashion statement for many men during the 1940s.
“The zoot suit takes up an enormous amount of fabric, comprising of a big oversized jacket that reaches the thighs, trousers wide at the knees, and an oversized hat,” she said. According to L85, the clothing
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