2000-2001 Just the Facts

tZf The Jenny Craig Pavilion, USD's state-of-the-art athletic facility, opened this fall. The 5, JOO-seat arena is home to USD's Division I basketball and volleyball teams, and serves a range of educational, cultural and ithletic events. tZf Construction on the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice is scheduled for completion in the fall of 2001. Named for one of San Diego's most generous philanthropists, the institute has already named its director, Joyce Neu, a distinguished scholar who most recently was associate director of the conflict resolution center at The Carter Center in Atlanta, Ga. tZf Plans are under way for a 150,000-square-foot Science and Technology Center to be constructed in the parking lot below Olin Hall. In addition to world-class lab facilities, the building will include aquariums, an astronomy deck, an aviary and a greenhouse. ~Zf USD's Shiley Theater was the site of the final 'presi - dential debate in 1996 between President Bill Clinton and Sen. Bob Dole. {~ USD in 1999 launched a new Upward Bound program to help low-income students obtain college degrees. Fifty students in nearby Kearny High School were selected for the four-year regimen of college-preparatory classes, tutoring, personal counseling and cultural programs, all designed to prepare them for university-level academic work. The students spend five weeks during summers

1949 Most Rev. Charles F. Buddy and Mother Rosalie Hill select a site in the Linda Vista (Spanish for pretty view) section of San Diego to establish two Catholic colleges, one for women and one for men, plus a School of Law. Mother Olga Rossi suggests calling, the site Alcala Park, after San Diego de Alcala, for whom the city was named.

1952 San Diego College for Women opens.

1954 The College for Men and School of Law (known also as San Diego University) open.

1959 Vice President Richard Nixon gives

commencement address at the College for Men.

1961 School mascot changed from Pioneers to Toreros.

1971 Author E. Hughes named first lay president.

1972 Colleges for Men and Women and School of Law merge to form the University of SanDiego.

1972 Schools of Business Administration and Education founded.

1974 Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science founded.

1984 Copley Library addition, Manchester Hall and Olin Hall are dedicated in a span of eight months, dramatically increasing facilities available to faculty and students.

living on the USD campus, attending intensive calculus, foreign language and literature classes and participating in field trips and seminars.

1987 Hahn University Center opens.

1988 Mother Teresa receives honorary degree.

1995 Alice B. Hayes named USD president.

1996 USD hosts presidential debate between President Bill Clinton and Senator Bob Dole.

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