Acknowledging USF Veterans
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FREEDOM AND FAIRNESS an Ifmntrnta Jfoghom Vol. 109, Issue 10 TheFoghornOnline.com November 17,2011 NEWS New Study Abroad Option in the Philippines: Casa Guest speaker Rev. Raymond Kemp, S.J. discusses the DREAM Bayanihan act. Students visit the San Sebastian Church. After visiting Escudero Museum, srudents travelled by Jeepeney. Pg-2 OPINION The tour guide leads the students to the Plesanjan water fall in Laguna, Philippines. All photos courtesy of Evelyn Obamos. Amanda Rhoades relates the KEITH HUBBARD across the pacific to the Jesuit Ateneo for the semester if all students are "The program really does foster atheist experience at USF. StaffWriter de Manila University. accepted. transformation... It's a different type Pg-4 Nothing falls short for a student Through the program, USF Sharon Li, director of the Center of challenge because students are to take learning to another level at students will be immersed into for Global Education said, "The new participating in communal living, a supportive living-learning deadline is set for December, 2nd group activities, and students have to SCENE USF. Why not take a leap into the unknown and come back with a new community founded on pillars of due to the exciting scholarship notice be willing to participate." perspective next semester. accompaniment, spirituality, and that came out recently." Elaborating on the types of group USF, in collaboration with The academics in the Philippines. An anonymous donation will activities, Li said students can expect Casa Educational Network, is Currently there is one USF provide a scholarship that covers 12 to take part in cooking, cleaning, offering a semester abroad called student officially registered for to 18 units of tuition, plus room and team building, and group reflections Casa Bayanihan, which translates to the program. Three other USF board. quite frequendy. house cooperative endeavor. students await application approval "Students need to be in the Li also emphasized the wellness Casa Bayanihan invites from the two Co-Directors, Grace Philippines before January 23rd for of students, discussing what students participants to a unique life zest, some Carlson and Heidi Kallen. Four the first day of class and return May have gained from the experience. One may not be familiar with, but may be other students, from different Jesuit 23rd ." anecdote a student shared with Li curious to discover without reading universities in the United States, Regarding what makes this study was spending the weekend traveling from a book. The quest requires a trip will also be attending, totaling eight abroad program unique, Li said, CAS, continued on pg.3 The Plastic Villians talk about Former Assistant Secretary of Defense their recent sucess; Acknowledging Pg-5 Speaks on Foreign Policy Challenges dilemmas by squeezing them into USF Veterans SPORTS categories where they don't quite fit. his relatives whom had served in the Americans, Nacht mused, are like Marines, Army and Navy. engineers, and like engineers, they "Being in the Army gave me will commonly "identify a problem, a sense of pride, confidence, and clear away the clutter, then solve the discipline. If you work through problem." it than you can make it through Unfortunately, said Nacht, anything," Brown said. foreign policy involves "people" and "It took a lot of adjusting, coming "conditions," which require patient, back to civilian life when you are used to waking up at 3 am and you're adaptable approaches. Courtesy of Cass Krughoff always on the go. Life seems to be Nacht has experienced firsthand Michael Nacht, former Assistant moving slower now because in the the difficulty in overcoming Secretary of Defense army there is always an objective for RYAN JOY such solution-oriented thinking. the day," Brown added. Emily Bogden/Foghorn StaffWriter After graduating from New York Antonio Brown Originally from Charleston, Last Thursday in Fromm Hall, University in 1963 with a degree South Carolina, Brown said he SARAH MOJARRO chose USF for several reasons. He Former Assistant Secretary of in aeronautics and astronautics, Spotlight on StaffWriter was attracted to USF's diversity, its Defense for Global Strategic Affairs, Nacht briefly worked at NASA as a Perris Blackwell dedication to social service and the missile aerodynamicist, after which, This past Friday was Veterans Michael S. Nacht advocated for culturally enriching experience of Pg-8 he went on to teach in various Day, which some regard as a day a cautiously optimistic approach living in San Francisco. positions at Harvard University. of sales on merchandise like cars, to foreign policy issues in what clothing and furniture. However, "I love USF, I love the people, and FOGHORN ONLINE In 1994, he was hired by the amounted to a rare insider's peek with the ongoing wars in Iraq and I love the small classes as opposed Clinton Administration to work into the shadowy world of U.S. Afghanistan there is a stronger call to public schools. I also love the foreign policy. as an assistant director for strategic on Americans to honor the sacrifices professors, all of them," Brown said. and Eurasian affairs in the U.S. Currently 35, Brown is pursuing a Nacht, who is the dean of men and women of this generation Arms Control and Disarmament — and those before — have made to major in International Studies with Berkeley's Goldman School of Agency. After leaving the Clinton protect this country. an emphasis in economics. He plans Public Policy where he also teaches, to work on economic injustice issues Administration, Nacht secured Among the nation's brave soldiers answered questions from USF in Eastern and South Africa post- a position at Berkeley. In 2008 is USF Sophomore Antonio Brown. Professor Patrick Hatcher of the graduation. joined the Obama team for a three- He enlisted into the Army when Center for the Pacific Rim—the he was 23 years old. During his Reflecting on the significance year stint on the U.S. Department organization which hosted the event. term, he was deployed five times to Veteran's Day holds for him, Brown of Defense Threat Reduction Nacht spoke on a variety of topics countries like Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi said, "For me this day is more of a day Committee. Professor Nacht of reflection. When I was younger I ranging from the Arab Spring and Arabia, and Qatar. Brown served in returned to Berkeley in 2010. would celebrate with my grandfather United States' relations with North the Army as a sergeant for ten years who had served so it was a big deal, Check out http://tinyurl. In the Obama administration, before receiving veteran status in fall Korea. but today I mostly reflect on the com/76zatdd or scan this 2009. In his critique of the United Nacht worked under Defense Regarding his motivation to enlist, experience I had and how honored I code for a special surprise (in Secretary Robert Gates, developing States' response to these conflicts, Brown said, "It was something I had am to be a part of the one percent of color!) projects designed to resuscitate Nacht indicted a lack of imagination always wanted to do as a kid." Brown people who serve in the military in the country." that obscures complex foreign policy SECURITY, continued on pg.3 said he was also inspired by some of 11 SAN FRANCISCO FOGHORN 2130 FULTON STRF.ET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 9411, NEWSROOM /•"-••'-' '- November 17,2011 NEWS San Francisco Foghorn Raymond Kemp opening up the floot for students and faculty to ask questions after the forum. Vicente Patino/Foghorn Georgetown Professor Raymond B. Kemp, S.J. ties MLK's "Dream" to DREAM act KEITH HUBBARD of God and all things real to us. California's progress in passing the said, "Surely no law-enforcement who attended the event, said StaffWriter He then proceeded to share some California Dream Act. However, official of [Alabama attorney she appreciated hearing about Community organizer, Catholic of his activism during the Civil the AB131 bill, which would general's] stature would have immigration from a priest's priest, and Georgetown University Rights movement in the sixties. allow undocumented students who responded to a fact-gathering perspective. She said, "It would professor Rev. Raymond B. Kemp,, He referenced how he and other receive in-state tuition to apply for request by challenging the federal be beneficial for the youth to S.J. spoke about the connection organizers defended civil liberties state financial aid, is awaiting a trial government's "legal authority" to get involved because we are the between the civil rights movement through the use of songs. investigate reports of civil future and these types of forums and current immigration issues last He also spoke about having rights abuses. Could there are a perfect example of how we week at USF. attended Dr. Martin Luther ** 'In times of economic be an attorney*'gefr8lal in can participate in our political After an introduction by King's speech at the Lincoln uncertainty the immigrant gets the South gr= or anywhere landscape." -«•»• organizer of the event USF Memorial during the march — who is not acutely In a personal interview with Theology Professor, Mark Miller, in Washington on August blamed for the failure of pieces aware, and mindful, of the the Foghorn after the forum, Kemp spoke about the ways self- 28,1963. Civil Rights Act of 1964?" Kemp said, "Focusing on ethnicity sacrificing love can restore the Connecting those events of our economic household.' JJ Kemp said, "All or our ethnic roots, we didn't cumulative process of progress. with today's immigration Americans should feel want to confront the hostilities of He made reference to his Anglo issues, Kemp said, ashamed." our mental attitudes... it's rooted roots in Virginia and Maryland— "Immigration has been the source which would determine whether He then added, "I don't in us to have a tendency to be states Kemp said have a background of our strength in the occasion of it will be included in a vote(; think shame is enough! I invite you bias towards one another...each of having had enslaved Africans some of our greatest failures.