San Francisco FOGHORUNIVERSITY 0 F SAN FRANCISCNO VOLUME 88, NUMBER 16 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1992 BATTLE OVER SMOKING RAGES IN SENATE "Carmen agreed that thc issues should BELINDA VIRAY be kept separate [smoking in the Green FOGHORN STAFF WRITER and Gold vs. smoking in cafeterias]," Clark said. The issue of smoking in the Green and According to Clark, Jordan-Cox pro­ Gold rages on for another week as the posed conducting a user-survey in the ASUSF Senate Resolution was rejected Green and gold within thc next week. A by the Office of Student Development. written questionnaire would be made available to all those using the space. After passing the resolution to prohibit "We want to work together with the smoking in the Green and Gold 13-2, thc Senate," Clark said. "The resolution was Senate forwarded their decision to Bill nothing but 20 senators voting their own Clark, Director of Student Leadership opinions and that's not better than Bill and Outreach Services, and supervisor of Clark serving his own opinion. Wc the University Center. Clark would be the [Student Development and the Senate] person responsible for inactivating such a jusl have different publics. The Senate policy. serves the undergraduates, while our According to Clark, there are "broader public is the whole ourpublic is the whole issues" which need to be considered, but university." he would like to "get to the same point as The city's smoking policy states that the Senate." all lounge areas be completely non- According to Marta Nichols, Arts and Sciences Representative and co-author A group of students making use of the smoking section while they can. Continued on page 3 of the resolution, Clark agreed to discuss Vice President of Student Development next meeting with the results of the dis- the resolution with Carmen Jordan-Cox, and then report back to the Senate at iheir cussion. PRESIDENTIAL CONVOCATION SPEECH MOTIVATES COMMUNITY KIMBERLY KAUER dent higher education, compared those opportunities for women and non-while involved in the transformation of USF. ASSOCIATE EDITOR nationwide troubles with those of USF, or underreprcsented minoriiy students, to "As Presideni I will happily lead you along wilh discussing how this university make the faculty of the 21st century as towards our collective future, our vision Father President John P. Schlegel, S.J. has responded to those problems. He also diverse as the student population; con­ forUSF,butonly ifyou arc willing to buy challenged faculty and staff to "go the shared with thc audience his visions of tinue attention at the federal policy level in, to invest in our building of a USF extra mile to serve and retain students" USF's future and how today's actions arc to lhe goals of diversity scholarship pro­ beyond thc year 2000; only if you are during his Spring Convocation address to helping to get this institution there. grams." willing to jointly put your values inio the USF community, held Feb. 27 in "If [the USF community] continues to Fr. Schlcgel was greeted with applause action for our common good." McLaren 252. be sustained by the building up of trust," from the audience when hc announced "It was a very inspirational speech," During his speech, Fr. Schlegel dis­ Fr. Schlegel said, "the sharing of a com­ that there will be a re-evaluation of thc Kalhy Jo McNamara, Associate Director cussed the current problems of indepen- mon cause, the facing of common prob­ budget process after the completion of of the Annual Fund said. "Hc provided a lems, the willingness of men and women the 1992-93 budget. great challenge for all the members of the to forget lhe past and its baggage, painful The speech was concluded by Fr. WHAT'S INSIDE: and fresh as some of those incidents may Schlegel asking the community to get Continued on page 3 have been, and in the spirit of Words worth, we pull together, to strive, to seek, to build a new USF." Fr. Schlegel pointed out that "retention is the key lo stabilizing and ultimately Campus Briefs pg.4 realizing our real growth in our enroll­ ment." He suggested that all faculty and staff Baseball Player Helps Kids pg. 5 need to help in retention by meeting thc needs of the student body. Fr. Schlcgel noted lhat he was helping Looking Back at Desert Storm....pg 9 meet students needs by trying io increase the amount financial aid available. He said there was the Presidents Scholar Sr. Ignatius Profile pgs. 10&11 Program which is helping to bring students to USF, but still more money is needed. Fr. Schlegel announced lhat he currently Lady Dons in WCC Tourney....pg. 13 is lobbying in Sacramento wilh other Presidents of independent institutions for an increase in Cal Grants. Best of USF Survey pg. 19 USF's course of aciion, according to Fr. Schlegel, is to "improve links with elementary and secondary schools, to help Lots 'o Personals pg. 20 improve the schools and let young students know that college is not an impossible dream; increase financial aid for all de­ serving students; increase graduate school President Fr. John Schlegel addresses the I'niversity community. 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The project recently won the approval of Yuval Ne' Thc report urges colleges to seek funds from private and March 6-8 cman, a Tel Aviv university physicist who is Israel's Min­ public sources to send undergraduates abroad to accompany Silent Retreat ister of Energy, Infrastructure, Science and Development. faculty members on research and teaching assignments. "Silence: Listening lo our Spirit" offers you a chance Thc 5300,000 budget will be provided by the ministry, the to spend a weekend in thc splendor of the Sierras and Israeli Academy of Science and thc Bi-national Science the quiet of silence to reflect God's love for you. Fund, an Israeli-American foundation that supports coop­ Presentations will be provided to help you in your STANFORD PROBED AGAIN erative research projects. STANFORD-Stanford University's image has been fur­ prayer. For more information, contact Fr. Treacy at The free-electron laser that thc Israeli team hopes to Campus Ministry x6582. ther tarnished as the independently operated nonprofit produce could be used to destroy incoming missiles. bookstore is investigated by its Board of Directors and the While the sum is appropriated is low for this type of attorney general's office for thc salaries and benefits of its project, Mr Ne'eman said, "it may well be lhat budget March 7 management. constraints will encourage the discovery of 'smart' solu­ Poetry Reading The general manager Eldon Speed and assistant manager tions." He also noted that the project would make use of The Poetry of Rumi-An Evening Performance, a Phil Chiaramonte each earn over SI00,000 a year and own underutilized facilities, such as thc particle accelerator at the presentation of classical Middle Eastern music, dance a Gold Country vacation house and motor home, which the Weizmann Institute. and the poetry of Jclalud'din Rumi, 13lh century bookstore leases from them. The store also spent $69,000 to Persian poet-mystic. 8:00 PM in thc Lone Mountain furnish the house, including a hot tub and satellite dish. The involvement of Israeli scientists in research projects Theater. Both managers will remain on the job during the inves­ linked to the SDI has caused debate at Israeli universities in the past. However, such controversy has not been on thc tigation. March 9 same scale as SDI protests in Europe and the United Slates, Singapore Symposium Investigations are in no way new to the Palo Alto school, mainly because Israelis regard incoming missiles as a real USF's Center for the Pacific Rim is sponsoring the thc University is currently under investigation for allegedly threat, as they were in the Persian Gulf war. over-charging the US government for federal research. event which will focus on the area's changing busi­ ness conditions and opportunities in trade and in­ CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY FIRST TO VATICAN NAMES NOTRE DAME vestment. 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM at thc Federal Reserve PROHIBIT SEXUAL LIAISONS Bank, 101 Market Street.