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NAPLES, Fla. — On a remote 750-acre site near the Everglades, Ave Maria University, the nation's first new Roman Catholic university in four decades, is about to rise from the fields of peppers and tomatoes that stretch to the horizon. The founder of Ave Maria, Tom Monaghan, is better known as the founder of Domino's Pizza. He has grand plans for the university: majors as varied as theology and hotel management; a Division I football team; three golf courses, including one for donors only; and a new town, Ave Maria, with a commercial center joining the campus. But his mission...

Major Catholic university, college town set for Florida NAPLES, FLA. (November 20, 2002) - Officials today announced a new Catholic university will be built east of Naples, Fla., with a new town to support it.  The new school, Ave Maria University, will be an academic center of international scope founded on Catholic religious beliefs and committed to developing a Division I-caliber athletics program. It will be the first major new Catholic university to be founded in the United States in 40 years.  Officials at Ave Maria said they expect to draw outstanding students from all 50 states as well as from...

Last night (April 16), Judge Ken Starr delivered the second Ave Maria Lecture sponsored by the Ave Maria School of Law. He spoke on the Cleveland school vouchers case, which is now sub judice at the Supreme Court, oral arguments having been heard in February. Judge Robert Bork, a professor at the school, attended the lecture at the Ann Arbor Sheraton, along with the school's founding benefactor, Thomas S. Monaghan. Several hundred members of the bench and bar were in attendance, as well as students of the school. Mr. Starr delivered his address and fielded questions from the audience -...

<p>NAPLES, Florida (AP) --Ave Maria University, the nation's first new Roman Catholic university in four decades, opened Tuesday with a Mass attended by the 101 students at its temporary campus.</p> <p>The university was established by Domino's Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan, who has devoted himself to Roman Catholic causes since he sold the pizza chain in 1998.</p>