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FOGHORSan Francisco N UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO New City Library ANNA SOROKINA Foghorn Staff Writer Culture and learning merge in San Francisco's Civic Center next year with the expected completion of the new main li brary. After four years of construction, the opening for the seven-story library, built on the Marshall Square is April 16, 1996. The current main library will be closed and the Asian Art Museum will be moved there instead. San Franciscans can look for ward to state-of-the-art technology in the new library. "The library collection will be computer ized. There will be... access to Internet, multimedia services, work stations for the sight-impaired and the deaf," said Eleanor Shapiro, the library spokesperson. In addi tion, there is a children discovery room. The exterior of the new main library _ comprises Beaux Arts architecture on the front facade with a more modern style on the sides, but the interior design will be a _ •TO BY SETH KALMA. visual fascination. The major architectural attraction ofthe KDNZ Deejays Make Music at the Student-Run Station new library will be a grand staircase that begins on the main floor, rises through the DAVID J. GUDELUNAS signal to broadcast their eclectic music lineup. both 880 AM and 88.1 FM. building, viewing services and activities on Foghorn Staff Writer That, however, is about to change. The planned improvement of USF's AM each floor and climbs the five-story In about a month the KDNZ stafFhopes to radio station was made possible by a $5000 atrium,ending at a distinctive curved sky You name it. implement an FM modulator. The new tech bonus allotted to the station in addition to light. USF's AM radio station, KDNZ, has got it. nology will carry the FM signal along cable their regular operating budget last year by the The Fulton and Larkin Street entrances Well... almost. lines to different outlets along campus, allow Associated Students of The University of San Please see "library" on page five What they don't have is a strong AM radio ing KDNZ to broadcast simultaneously on Mease see "Sheds" continued on page six FI Asian-Am Classes—First Ever at USF ROTC Scales After Years of Lobbying, New Courses are Here—But Little Fanfare a Rock Page four VIVA CHAN & MATTHEW COX tion that currently makes up 23 percent of course," King said. Foghorn Staff Writers the total student body on campus, but the The instructor of the Asian mental health two are the first Asian American courses course expressed surprise that the courses Clubbing Gloria Wong dropped a speech class when ever offered at USF. are only offered now when considering the she found out about a new Asian American In San Francisco, Asian and Pacific Is high number of Asians on campus and liv at USF class from a flier she received in the mail this landers comprise almost 30 percent of the ing in the city. Page sixteen past summer. total population, according to the 1990 "Yet again, USF is unique in the chain of Like many other students, the sopho census. Jesuit schools...It's one ofthe first to offer more design major didn't know that the Several students said they thought the courses like this," said Kevin Chun who is Seeing the Sites new classes mark a victory for students and school has always carrie4 Asian American finishing his doctorate in psychology at faculty who have lobbied for years to add courses — often confused with the ethnic UCLA. of Hong Kong Asian American studies to the USF curricu studies classes such as those offered in the King said the small number of students Page niheteen lum. Center Pacific Rim. The new courses con enrolled — seven — does not reflect a lack "This university has just started to deal centrate on the immigrant experience, of interest in the course. King still gets with issues of diversity," said Rebecca King, distinct from that of the Asians living in the phone calls from students who said they Lady Dons a sociology instructor for "Asian American mainland and islands. would have enrolled if they had known Culture and Society." "I'm trying to lay an institutional paper about the class earlier. on a Roll USF boasts an Asian American popula trail to let others know this is an important Pleose see "Courses" continued on page s» Page twenty-eight CALENDAR r Free. Cornelius Buckley, S.J., Cheerleading orientation Oct. 3, director of the National Alliance 751-1626. of the History Department, tryouts Oct. 8. for the Mentally III, speaks on "Early Callx6891 for speaks on "Severe Conversation and Prayer Group Spanish Jesuit Saints — times and locations. Mental Illness and Managed Care: Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Ignatius and Francis Borgia." Opportunities and Challenges." Scripture Study Sept. 28, 3 p.m., Delta Sigma Pi and USF present Oct. 11,7-9 p.m., Thursdays, 6 p.m. Lone Mountain 216. the 44th Annual Rose Dance. McLaren 251. Campus Ministry, x6582. x6426. Music by Spintronix. x6079. Semiformal dress. Foghorn Staff Meetings Japan Club Oct. 7, 9 p.m.-l a.m., The Randall Museum Tuesdays, 5 p.m., Potluck Movie Party. San Francisco Marriott, trains volunteer docents lower level Phelan Hall. Bring any kind of food. 55 Fourth St. to handle and introduce live x6122. Sept. 29, 6 p.m., $30 couple, $17 single. animals to children. UC Faculty Lounge. Training classes cost $25 and run ASUSF Senate Meetings Next meeting Oct. 3, 3:15 p.m., USF Presidential Forum on Wednesdays Oct. 11-Nov. 15, Tuesdays, 6:30p.m., location TBA. UC419. "Affirmative 199 Museum Way. x6516. Meetings open to all students. Action: A Social, 554-9600. Legal and Ethical USF Jewish Student Union/Hillel Perspective." St. John's Presbyterian Church The Foghorn will list and Berkeley Hillel Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m., celebrates 125 years calendar events for free. host a joint Muir McLaren 252. with a concert of organ, Direct listings to the Woods hike Oct. 1. Free. piano and chamber music. Basic Judaism workshops x6848. Hear an original Johnson Calendar Editor and Oct. 1 1 and 25, 6 p.m., organ, circa 1870, drop them by the UC417. At the next Davies Forum, and view fine stained-glass windows. Foghorn Office. For more Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m., 25 Lake St. 333-4922. Laurie Flynn, information, call X6I22 . _____£_. The BEST KEPT SECRET \3SF Night at USF The "No Frills Buffet" Located at the UC first floor Inside the Fog 'N Grog The buffet offers an extensive salad bar, delicious hot entrees, drinks, and dessert for a great price. And Best of all It's..." ALL YOU CAN EAT" Stop by and check it out Monday-Friday 11:30-1:30 Cash accepted • •• i Hie entire semester Thursday Evenings Present USF ID with Californial Drivers License 2526 Lombard St. 922-0985 Page 2 September 28, 1995 NEWS LAW BREAKERS Scholars Tackle Homelessness BEWARE Homeless need to learn self-reliance, DC urban researcher says in Davies Forum Public safety acquired the right to make arrests without the liability of false arrest charges. "Public safety officers can make arrests on any law violation which occurs in or around USF," VIVA CHAN Conditions that displace individuals in Patrol Sergeant Caroline Serrato said. Frequent violations include News Editor society include economic contractions, trespassing and public drunkeness. In effect this past June.the when counties with a rising tax base and privileges of campus officers follows the SFPD penal codes, allowing rights such as initiating investigations. Clatter, clatter. "Spare change?," a man in shrinking land leave low-income tenants military fatigues asks as he stands on the corner priced-out of housing, Roschelle said. Ad of Pine and Montgomery street, shaking a tin dictions such as drug abuse can trap can with a single coin. Men and women in NEW JUDGE ON tailored suits bustle by. Agencies need to confront situations like this "When you're down, THE BLOCK in San Francisco by providing the homeless with more community-oriented social services, it's harder to get up." said a researcher at a Sept. 18 seminar at USF. The student senate appointed a politics major Senior Thomas —Senior David Bernhard Senior David Bernhard, one among about Mallen to the judicial board in the Sept. 19 meeting, 14 to one in favor and nine abstentions. The judicial board is a body that 100 attending the seminar, shared sentiments similar to Martha Burt's, director ofthe Urban interprets the Associated Students bylaws. Mallen is a member of individuals in a dependent lifestyle, when a politics club. Institute, a social service research center in stresses of daily living can easily become a Washington D.C. burden. "Hand-outs don't work," he said. "It's harder "We need to mirror the sense of commu for the poor to receive welfare assistance be- HOLE IN ONE nity [that rural areas provide],... extend our social services so homelessness isn't de fined as someone else's problem," USF hospitality students and their mentors plan to tee off in Roschelle said. "More services need to a Sept. 27 golf competition to raise money for the school's dining sr be available to the homeless, but those program. The 6th Annual McLaren School of Business Gold Ik * ' who take need to be responsible, too." Tournament begins at 10 a.m. at Shoreline Gold Links in Mountain View. In a raffle and an auction, bidders get a chance to Burt cited a particular group among compete for prizes including Andre Agassi's tennis racket or a the homeless that needed special atten private tie dinner for 50, catered by students in the McLaren fine- tion: Vietnam War veterans.