Spring 1994 Heart of St

S'TMN ewsletter St. Thomas More College & NewmanAlumni/ae The Volume 14 Number 1 Spring 1994 Heart of St. Thomas More College ward (/ In this issue ... Presentedby the STM students to PresidentJohn Thompson, '44 Grads: Then & Now March 1994 Windows to the East: An Ecumenical Initiative by Bill Smart Apprehension, Anxiety, Anguish a storyby Jane O'Brien Healing from Sexual Abuse by Ellen Jastrebske Redeeming Power by MaryMiller ...and all our regular features! 2 STM Newsletter Notes from ty being nominated (out of 58 total) for the University of Saskatchewan the Students' Union (USSU) Excellence in Teaching award. Dr. Steven Snyder, STM's Department of President Philosophy, was selected as one of the ten to receive this award for 1993-94. Even with increased numbers President John Thompson of students, however, STM faculty will continue to find ways to insure Late April brings the end of a further4% (-7% in three years). At that students receive excellent teach examinations. Spring convocation, the prospect of drasticallycutting fac ing and get to know their instructors. less than a month away brings a day of ulty and programmes, the College of This year we hope to have 120 stu pride and achievement for students Arts and Science made a decision to dents in the Chelsea Programme, and theirfamilies, as well as forfacul admit more first-yearstudents, lower STM's transition and foundation ty. Seeing persons who arrived here ing the entrance average from its workshops for first-year students. three or four or five years ago walk present 77% to 67%. Although the With a strong Newman Centre, two across the stage of Centennial Audito official University entrance average full-time Chaplains, an Administra rium to receive their degrees and the has remained 65 % , quotas in Arts and torof Student Services,and a renewed congratulations of Dr. Ted Turner,the Science had restricted admission to STMSU Executive, incoming STM Chancellor of the University of persons with high schoolaverages at students will find caring and knowl Saskatchewan, is moving. I remem or above 77%. Through a tuition edgeable persons to welcome them to ber my deep sense of pride and admi sharing arrangement, those Colleges the College and its many activities. ration several years ago as three wo teaching more students will receive This Spring issue of the News men whom I had taught in first year 80% of the tuition of the additional letter covers several events and con received their four-year honours de students taught. STM is also being tributions of a number of persons to grees. All three were single parents. offeredsuch an opportunity. As part whom I want to call your attention. Against great odds, they successfully of the decision to admit more stu The firstis the visit of Mary Jo Leddy, completed a university education. dents, the Senate has agreed to in an STM alumna, and her talk to the Our pride is, however, cou crease the number of International College, "Redeeming Power: Wom pled with sadness that our graduates Students, without curtailing the ad en in Church and Society." Thesec face bleak job prospects. Many carry mission of qualified Saskatchewan ond is Windows to the East, three considerable debt from student loans. students. public lectures on EasternChristiani If any of you arein a position of hiring Such a strategy means that ty, initiated by Mrs. Lesya Nah persons, either for permanent posi the College of Arts and Science will achewsky and carried out with the tions or for the summer, please con be able to preserveprogrammes and assistance of Mr. Bill Smart, bothof tact the College. We will gladly put professors. It also means that the STM's Department of Religious Stud you in touch with our students for same number offacultywill beteach ies. The third are the two plays, interviews. ing more students. Many of you know Murder in the Cathedral and Only This time of year is also a that one of STM's major strengths has Once, directed by STM students Luc timeof finalizingcourses and instruc been an emphasis on teaching, on Bussiere and Rhonda Shinkewski. tors for next year, and for setting smaller classes, and on personal atten Less than two weeks ago our budgets. For the University of tion to students. That the quality of Archbishop, His Excellency Charles SaskatchewanandforSTM,the1994- STM's teaching has continued to be Halpin, died suddenly of cancer. We 95 provincial grant will be reduced by high is indicated by eight of our facul- contd. onp. 5 Spring 1994 3 From the WilfridDenisfinisheshis term as Acting Dean this June. Since he has some rather important thoughts Dean's about the implications of the funding crisis on post-secondaryeducation, I believe that he should be allowed Desk extraspace in this issue to enable him to communicate the serious complex ity of the situation and its conse j quencesfor society. Such debates are Dean WilfridDenis veryreal in the academy and need to be seriously considered by the public, also reduces the risk of overproduc remote learning facility. Academic not onlyas funders of our enterprise, tionand overstocking. journalsare going to beincreasingly but also as consumers and beneficia Aspects of this kind of pro available through computer commu ries. duction are creeping into virtually nication systems rather than through every sector of the economy, includ paper. Thistechnology adds flexibil Over the last decade studies ing the service sector. If this approach ity and access to students whose needs from the sociology of work and the is applicable to fast-foodproduction, do not coincide entirelywith the stan political economy of the modemcor is it relevant for the provision of ser dard university format. It also reduc poration reveal how worldwide com vices? Does it apply to education? es costs to universitieswhen the tech munication and modem computer Although many reasons justify not nology is used in sufficientquantity to technology have fostered "just intime" applying it to education,we should recover the initial capital outlay. production.This concept wasapplied not be tooquick to conclude that post The currentfunding crisis in initially to the production of goods secondary educationis exempt from post-secondary education pushes us where the finalsale of products occurs "just in time" production. In fact, increasing!y towards demand or mar at some distance from the point of some elements have beenin place for ket-driven education. Demand is ex production. The combination of com quite some timealready. pressed in variousways, but it is re munication and computer technology The integration of technolo duced ultimately to the question of translates immediately effective de gy to post-secondary educationmakes whopays. Already,someuniversities mand into new production. Each sale, "just in timeeducation" increasingly are designing MA programs for cor even if it occurs at the other end of the possible. Academic journalscarried porations where electives developed world, is immediately registered at articles on computer-assisted instruc specificallyto meet the needs of these the point of manufacture or assembly tion (CAI) in the late 1960s and early companies will be integrated to the thus determining new production di 1970s. Current technology already core courses from the regular MA rect! y. Afteran initialproduction run, supplements existing programs and program. Corporate or other external low demand items are not produced course deliveriesin a most impressive sponsorship can therefore create de againwhereas high demand items are manner through CD-ROM, video mand within universities and shape replenished. "Just in time" pro disks and tapes,TV delivery and com programs and courses much like the duction has numerous advantages for puter software. These can reduce the impact that external funding has al the modem corporation. It helps to cost of course delivery, forexample, ready had on directing university re reduce inventory, dead time in pro by replacing expensive lab experi search. duction, overstocking, and the need ments with quality video presenta Another dimension to de for year-end sales to clear outmoded tionsfor non-majors. CD-ROM can mand is student enrollment. This or outdated stock. It also allows for make visual materials on virtually demand can be translated into effec more effectiveadvertising by pinpoint every country in the world and every tive dollars in two ways. The firstis ing target population. This approach civilization available to even the most contd. onp.10 4 STM Newsletter Healing from sexual abuse In our last Newsletter, Professor GerryFarthing wrote a briefstory on the complicated issue of assessing young children who were victims of sexual abuse. In this article, Professor Ellen Jastrebske in our PsychologyDepartment, looks at the implications of abuse and a path to healing. Sexual abuse occurs when A provincial surveythat I car experiences. Sexual abuse survivors there is sexual activity (or sexually riedout showed a reportedprevalence often experience characteristics of connotated acts) that involve either (lifetimerate) of about 15% in a total post-traumaticstress disorder, a clin one who is involved in a caregiving sample of some 2300persons to have ical category applied to other trau bond with a minor, or one who is experienced sexual abuse by the age mas triggered by natural disasters, involved in an emotional bond with of 16. In nearlyhalf of these cases the fires and explosions, accidents and someone who otherwiseexercises for perpetratorswere family relatives. In hostage experiences. Unique features mal or informal authority over one the remainder, the perpetrators were arising out of trauma induced by oth self. This latter category may include either friends of various family mem ers areperceptions of extremecalcu adults who find themselves in non bersor other peoplein frequentasso lated threat to either one's lifeor to consensual or coersive contexts or ciation with the family. In light of one's physical, emotional, and spiri relationships.

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