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Xavier University Exhibit All Xavier Student Newspapers Xavier Student Newspapers 1973-11-28 Xavier University Newswire Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) Follow this and additional works at: https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/student_newspaper Recommended Citation Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio), "Xavier University Newswire" (1973). All Xavier Student Newspapers. 365. https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/student_newspaper/365 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Xavier Student Newspapers at Exhibit. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Xavier Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Exhibit. For more information, please contact [email protected]. XJ\ViER UNiVEffSiTY . ~- Student Representation Proposed PERIODICALS SECTJ~ ~~·.- ZeDO Seeks Reform. Of Athletic Boara , ¢~- by Steve Bedell must be a woman and one must be inter- News Editor . collegiate athlete. The Chairman of The· The Univer8ity Senate is presently con· Board is to be appointed by the President. - sidering a proposal to expand the Athletic Board from seventeen to nineteen members .The students are to serve two·year terms. and to open the · Board ·to student par- AU the other Board members are to serve three-year terms. During the first three ticipation for the first time.'This propsoal year&·: the appointments are to be stag ·involves a realignment of the Unive.rsity siructure to allow for more executive free. gered as to ensure . seven Board ap- . · pointments each year. Also, the proposed dom. Board will not deal directly with salaries ·Student Body President Thomas E. Zeno, and will act as an important forum for stu· sponsor of the legislation, believes that a dent participation. The new format has new Athletic Board would be more re- been criticized on the grounds that there is sponsive to the student needs. already enough student,feedback on athlet· ·In its present form, the Athletic Board ics, and that students should not be in· consists of seventeen members: twelve al- volved in the administering of staff umni, three faculty members, and two ad- salaries which the Board should exercise ministrators. There are no student mem· control over. ·hers on the Boa·rd. Only the faculty However, proponents of the proposal members have terms of office, which last maintain that no other board at this level for three years. The other members are ap- deals with salaries. They arugue that to pointed by the President of the University, eliminate this as part of its function and while three members participate ex offico: allow for student participation would only the President's of Alumni and Alumnae alter the.strilcture of the Board enough to and the President of the Muskateer Club. be in compliance with the generally estab· The Board currently deals with the dis· lished pattern of college administration. persal ofemployee salaries, among its oth· er duties. For this reason, students have After reviewing specific information not been allowed membership on the dealing with the proposal the Executive Board, !lnd the minutes of the Athletic Board of the University Senate will bring Board meetings are not open to the general ~he proposal before. the University Senate VOL. LIX WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER28 1973 NO· 7 public. 1tself for further act1on. ' ' · co~::~~ti~::t~~~~~~~~-a:~:c~~;~~~:::: Theology Department Joins Campus Minis~~y proposal would change tbe·name of the I d • ''C • p ' Athletic Board to the "Advisory Board on n spe, Cia• }c re It o, mmi tmen t rogram_' . Intercollegiate." In its new guise the Board would consist of nineteen members, in· For the second consecutive year Xavier's cision he or she makes concerning Chris· . One indiVidual said he drew tremendous eluding seYen alumni and friends, ·ap· Theology Department and Campus Min· tianity. strength from the fact that he knew many pointed by the University. President, and istry Team are joining forces to present an This · joining of pastoral and academic of the people had similar or common ques· four students appoin.ted by the Student academic-pastoral program. Patterned af· talents and interests has drawn high tiona - "questions on what Christian1ty · SEnate. Of the four students, at least one · ter the early Church's Catechumenate ex praise from former participants. Citing was and where if anywhere it was both in perience, this program, tagged. "Christian previous difficulties with traditional the· them and in society." This same student Commitment - Theology 398," examines ology courses, one student says he entered added "We ran the course. We weren't lee· Pear Santa.: both academically and personally the the' course with the lo'Y "gtin and bear it" . tured into something; This course wasn't" Ch.ristians believing stance. expectation of just fulfilling three more taught' to us, but rather by us and for us. Another student concurrs with this stati· It's that time It is designed to provide for a possible hours twoard his requirement. He now de scribes the program as a "dynamite ex ._~g. "the structure arose out of group needs. faith experience and to present an opJ,or· perience." He goes on to say that theology My questions were ans:wered or 11ttempts again l Wh-y . .tunity to decide about living as a commit· "is or can be a personal, gripping ex· were made by traditional instructors but ted Christian. It will run for the six weeks · by the group which .also just happened to op.eni m!xtsemester. · - perience that ultimately can't be measured .1 in tests, rights or wrongs, A's, B's,· or C's." have an inetiUctor 1n them." The commu~ ... ' ~~- ·' . ' . ' . ·'Academic credit ofth~.8emesterhouar \•' ility experience culminated. in a weekend at is available thro.ugh the Theology De~ The program effects this personal con~ · Milford Retreat House which will again be tdlf~:~~- partment for those who wish to particip~te· cem through the low student-teacher ratio. repeated this .year during the weekend of • :r:nent tht~ uear.. in the program for credit. This academic There are seven facilitors or counselors for March 29-31, 1974. ' . credit can be used toward staisfying the re the maximum group of 35 students. A During the six-week period the basic cou .23 J. quired number of credits in theology. In weekly private meeting with one of these re of program activities will be scheduled that the course will only run for six weeks, counselors is an important part of the pro on Monday and Wednesday evenings from (Ash Wednesday, February 27, to April14) gram. This counselor will help the indi· 7:30 to 9:30. Those interested i.ii taking the DA'r'?TO an intensive investment of the student's vidual develop activities and experiences program for credit just pre-register as they · time will be expected. The 'grade for the for facilitating personal growth and Chris· do for a regular class. However, :.before pre· ?HOP! ·_,·~ ,_ academic course will ·be determined by the tian decision. Group process and the ex registering the student must.; 'be inter· quality of each participant's involvement perience of community were also high .eviewed and approved by a[p~iram staff ~~;;_~~;:;;__ ::=:;;-iiiiiiiiiiiiii;;;;;;:a.,. __ L.I in the program and not by the ultimate de- . points mentioned by previous students. member. Further infonnatidii can he ob· tained ·from the Registrar's ·office ·or Cam-.l XU Freshmen Enrollment Declines pus Ministry: by Barbara Belbot there are 29 men (15 local, 14 out of town) · A third factor is the change in growth. News Reporter · and 3 women (2 local, 1 out·of town). rate and a decline in the pool of potential college students ofthe 18-21 age group. The· ·-Freshman enrollment at Xavier for the population pattern created a peak year first semester of the 1973-74 academic year throughout country for college attendance · is down .approximately 9% from last year's in 1965. Xavier freshmen in that year fig figures, as reported by Rev. Peter J. ured at 714. Since 1965 there has been a Buschmann, Director of Admissions. 486 steady decline. freshman began school .in September as compared to 531 for the 1972-73 year. There·were 755 accepted freshmen appli· cations for. this year and 98 not approved. A breakdown of the figures shows that. Of this 755, 486 actually started school at the enrollment of local men students is up XU. Buschmann reports that there was a slightly with 206 this year andl99 last lower number of those who decided not to year, while there .are less out of town male come to Xavier this year than in the pre· students - 127 in 1973 and 185 in 1972. vious last four years. · The total male enrollment is 333 as com•. Complete enrollment figures for the en· pared to-384 in 1972. tire school for 1973-74 are as follows: 1865 · Women students still average approxi· undergraduate day division (2021 in 1972), mately lA of the total undergraduate day including 479 women and 1386 men; 925 enrollment. Freshmen women are- down CCE with 206 enrolled full time; and 3450 from 147 last year to 121. The drop has fig graduate Rtudents. ured among both out of town and ·local . women. Ninety local and 57 out of town fe· male freshman students enrolled last year ·.Editors Sought with 77 local and 44 out of town enrolling Rev. J, Peter Buschmann, S.J. · this year .. Director of Admissions For Athen·aeum Applications for the editorship of the li- Included in the 486 freshman total but The reaons for t)le drop hi freshman en· terary annula, the Athenaeum, will be ac-· not in the above breakdown is a group of rollent Father Buschmann feels are several cep.ted by the Program and Publications 32 students enrolled in a special 12 hour and "not peculiar to any one school." Col- Bo'ttrd until12 noon on Thursday, De program called operation Full-Time, oper· leges and universi~ies throughout the na· cember 6, 1973.