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This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student at Carroll Collected. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aC rroll News by an authorized administrator of Carroll Collected. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Carroll News Vol. 78, No. 7 John Carroll University, University Heights, 44118 March 15, 1990 Pax Christi chapter forms Organization, to promote social justice student of the by Marcellus Neatly Staff Reporter yearannouced

Pax Christi John Carroll re­ by Alic e Carle za11on of the Year were the Car­ ceived its charter from the Student Asst. News Editor roll News and Phi Kappa Psi. Union Tuesday, joining the ranks A member of each SU organi­ of more than 30 other Pax Christi Nominations for the Studcm zation panicipated in the voting. student chapters in the United Union Organization of the Year The award was implemented this States. Award and the SU Person of the year to recognize effons of cam­ Pax Chrisu, a Latin phrase Ycar A ward were voted upon at pus organi7.ations. meaning peace of Christ, is an the S U meeting last Tuesday. The Lynch worked on the SU Film international orgamzation origi· Sophomore Class won the organ­ Series as co-director and initiated nally formed after World War II izational award as junior Pat the Mcd1a Club, which publicizes for the sake of bringing peace to Lynch received the individual any major event through the France and Germany. honor. Housing Dcpanment or the SU. Today, the 8,500 member or­ Sophomore Megan Clifton "The award doesn't mean as ganization is geared towards dis­ nominated the Sophomore Class much to me as docs the apprecia­ annarnent, peace education, al ter· because of the numerous activi­ tiOn of the hard work I put in," said natives to violence, primacy of ties it has sponsored and the over­ Lynch. "My work was shared by conscience, and a just world or­ aJI support it given to the SU. many other people who deserve der. "The award is for the whole most oft he credit for getting things As a member of the interna­ class," said Jc.ff Stiltner, sopho­ done on short notice." tional organizauon of Pax Christi, more class president. "h was the Pete S ymada, sen 10r class presi­ PCJC plans to educate the John students who who responded and dent, was also nominated for serv­ s:;aaoll communily about the is­ Sophomore Megan Clifton supports the efforts of Pax Christi supponed us all year." •ce to the senior class and the SU. sues of peace, social justice and John Carroll by signing a petition, presented by member "I think we were so successful The winners will be recognized environmental concerns through Mary Beth Fraser, against United States funding of the El because we had everyone work­ with a plaque which is planned to presentations and a monthly news· Salvadoran government due to the its human rights violations. ing together," he added. be presented at the SU Inaugural Ieucr. pholo by William l..ul.bs Other nominees for the Organi- Dmncr on March 20. "As Christians we feel that we members. should be moved to work towards "I went to Fr. Dister and men· LeCtUre to focus on business, psychology peace and social justice. As indi· tioncd that there was no peace and insurance company, 1mplemcnted This lecture, which was spear­ by Alexandra Kasarda vidual members, we educate our­ social justice group on campus," an internal consulung program for headed by JUnior Diane Lynch, selves about peace, then go out said Dew. "He said he had been human resource managers about vice president of Psychology Club, into the community and try to trying to get one formed on cam­ The Psychology Club, with which he will speak. marks a change m relations be· promote awareness," said Dennis pus. Sohehandedmesomeinfor­ support of the College and Arts Fader was formerly the corpo­ tween the two schools which have Dew Jr., president of PCJC. mation on Pax Christi. I read it and Sc1ences and the School of rate vice pres idem of Progressive. had their dtfferences m the past According to the PCJC char­ over and felt this was something I Business, wi II present a lecture at He will be spcak10g on the role of "The neat thmg about this lec­ ter, the organization also plans to really wanted to do." 7:30p.m. on Monday, March 19 the external consultant and emo· ture IS that 11 is bringing the two provide an opponuni ty for stu· Anton Zuiker, PCJC newslct­ in the Jardine Room which will tiona! aspects involved 10 being schools together. I think this is a dents to actively participate in tereditor, stressed the need ofact­ focus on management and psy­ an entrepreneur. great way to foster a relationship various justice writing campaigns ing on a change of heart. chology. Intended for those interested 10 between them," said Lynch. and food and clothing drives. "I think the basic atti tude of The lecture, entitled "How management, human resources, Dr. Beth Martin, a professor of They also plan to provide as· Pax Christi is that you cannot Corporate Business Applies Theo­ consul ting, and industrial psychol­ psychology who oversees students sistance to the homeless of Cleve­ change the world unless you ries of Management and Indus­ ogy, the lectures will address in the industrial psychology pro­ land and help in the organization change yourself. We always have trial Psychology," will feature two common student questions such gram implemented in October, ofEanh Day atJCU every spring. to remember that. Instead ofprac­ prominent businessmen, Barry as what undergraduate elective sees this lecture as a great oppor­ Moderated by Rev. Jack Dis­ ticing what you're preaching, we Fader and Steven Johnson. will prepare one for a manage­ tunity for students. tcr, S.J., the group presently has should preach what we are prac­ Johnson, corporate manager of ment career, what the "real world" "It will give students a realistic over 30 participants, including stu· ticing. We want people to be aware management at Progressive Insur­ is like, as weiJ as how to make the view of the opponunities open to dents, faculty and administration of that attitude," said Zuiker. ance Corp., a 1.2 million high-risk transfer from school to work. them," she sa1d. Page2 EDITORIAL The Carroll News, March 15, 1990 Housing costs go through the roof at Carroll With the advent of the 1990's ing transportation costs. venience by living off campus. occupants. Ifa housemate were to perience any of these problems. John Carroll University is com­ One example would be a two "Commuting," as oneex-com­ renig on the lease, the remaining Transportation is not necessary baaing inflation by raising room room rental unit inside a local muter said, "is a pain. You don't occupants would be unexpectedly on campus because one's most and board prices. At the close of a home. Two bedrooms, a bathroom, know what's happening on cam­ experiencing extra costs. House­ important needs are provided for two year period we will have seen and laundry and kitchen privileges pus, and you son of feel out of it." mate incompatibility could make by remaining in one location. Also, prices rise by $1,050. Does this were offered for $225 a month. If Another student who will be conditions uncomfortable, but in residents know in advance what price increase force more students two people were to rent this unit experiencing the affects of the in­ theeventofthissitualion it would they are getting for their money, to consider the alternative of liv­ for nine months, housing would crease said, "My father can help be difficult to fmd alternate hous­ the fee is all-inclusive. A Septem­ ing off campus and how would cost $1,012.50 per person. With me pay for an apartment, but he ing mid-semester. ber- June lease is automatic. this change ultimately etTect them? additional expenses considered, definitely cannot afford on-cam­ Unexpectedcostsrequiremore Prices rise steadily throughout If one is able to find a local the cost will be nearly $3,700, pus costs." financial security for off-campus the years, but a $1,000 increase in household with a bedroom for rent, $1,000 less than next year's room Living off-campus, one is faced residents. Some landlords require room and board alone over two it is considerably less costly to and board rate. This hike has forced with dilemmas that campus resi­ renters to have a stable job, or to years is taxing on students' re­ live off-campus, even consider- some students to sacrifice con- dents do not face. First, transpor­ have a legal guardian co-sign the sources. Should students be forced tation cost and availability are lease. Also, many leases run for a to sacrifice the convenience of determining factors. If one does full year, which presents a prob­ campus residency? Can the uni­ not own a car the savings and lem to those who need a Septem­ versity justify the cost when the convenience of living off-campus ber- June lease. result is traumatic to some stu­ are jeopardized. Additional unexpected ex­ dents? Secondly, one must decide to penses may be incurred in the event When one considers the prob­ either live alone in one unit, or to ofa landlord failing to cover main­ lems of living off campus, it is share a house or apartment with tenance costs. Relations with a reasonable to assume that students three or more people. If one opts landlord may be strained during should experience the conven­ to share a house, the cost is di­ this situation or others. iencesof dorm life-to live where rcclly related to the number of On-campus residents do not ex- they learn. Marriot earns just desserts

One of the most complained the beginning of each semester, a they want. about things on John Carroll's student has the option of buying a According to Karla Kunkle, campus is the food service. This 19 meals per week plan, 14 per food service director of Marriott, has happened in the past, occurs week or 10 per week. The prices all meals are cooked according to today, and will probably continue vary. but for the 19 meal plan, the recipe. The meals vary when dif­ in the future. Not a single day price is$950 for which the student ferent cooks prepare the meals. passes when someone doesn'l receives 286 meals during lhe Also, lhc Marriou Corporation have a complaimaboutsomelhing semester. The price for each meal sets up standards across the board the cafeteria served or the cafete­ averages out to $3.32. for all of its cafeteria operations. ria workers did that day. For this price, someone could Even if a school's standards are In the past, these complaints get maybe a Big Mac, fries, and a not as high as Marriou's, Marriou have carried some weight. In drink at McDonald's or pay for will go by its own higher stan­ previous years the cafeteria food half of a pizza. But at Marriott, the dards. was regularly undercooked, over­ choices are much greater. Sure, Marriott won't be able to cooked, or simply of poor quality. Marriou runs an all-you-can­ please everybody all the time, and Students would have to look eat service. Once a customer has sometimes they might prepare through four or five cups or bowls entered, he has the choice of at something which is just plain bad. before finding a clean one. least two main entrees and various But no one's mother cooks some­ Recently though, JCU's cafe­ side dishes such as french fries or thing likable every single night, teria service has improved. In rice. While students may take and nobody has been satisfied 1986, the Marriott Corporation only one serving at a Lime, they every single time he's gone to a bought the SAGA corporation, can return through the line any restaurant. which serviced John Carroll as number of times. Of course, Marriou isn't per­ well as many other schools across Besides the main dishes, Mar­ feeL Sometimes beveragesorcon­ the nation. The JCU administra­ riou offers a salad bar, a deli bar diments run out and are not re­ tion kept Marriott on as the with various cold meats, cereal filled for some time, and the cafe­ school's contractor, and the deci­ bins, several kinds of bread, soups, teria periodically becomes con­ sion proved to be a wise one. and many other things. The vari­ gested because food production Now student complaints are ety and quantity definitely exist. does notmeettheamountofpeople based more on tradition than on But what about quality? Some coming at at once. But these prob­ fact. It has been so easy to find students say that they would rather lems are minor compared to the something wrong with the food have one serving of something improvements Marriott has made service in the past that some people that tasted good than several serv­ in space, variety, and prices. think nothing will change. They ings of something unfuJfilling. Overall, Marriott provides the have fun complaining. Choices between bad tasting foods services that the students pay for. But Marriou deserves beuer. don't measure up to one good The variety is there, improvements » :t. They are providing a service which entree. have been made, and the food is will appeal not necessarily to every l!!e~~.W.Ia ~w..ictV~ ~~~ :· tl!·,.·.• "'""""'li'""'•""• Marriott, however, does not gelling better. Sometimes stu­ ~lt~~~t ~liW .....-~i!lf.c:tolllf•"\~noon~•'""ii"'•dlngllhe individual who eats in the cafete­ cater to individual tastes. Rather, dents have to search for what they ~.cW. of~~ ~ CMdl.,.._,_._tMJighf.to ~.;..tt••CJ' II:Ir~glll. ria, but one which gives the gen­ ."YW. Ql\d Clollfy, .tatt•" ltuf be .!Y~ ~~~ed~ dalad ~-~-~ ~ it cooks its meals to suit general want, but usually it is there. If jlgM4ure ~ ~ n~, .<: .,.. >® . ''·'"· .. '%,«.<·$. ~·~In ~oncSCQ~~IIii:NiKJii•('(!tiolJN-~Oifal eral population what it wants. tastes. It tries not too add too Marriou continues in the vein they boonf Gild do not -ooty.~ ~ opinl=W ot 1M ~!'Of• ' . "' ,. =t·" ,.: ' ~ ~ilpliona ollh~ecmo• ~"'*eon ~~lned ro, $15,00~ o year, riou offers is a deal which cannot instead provides those spices for come one of good food and serv­ CII~Jcu~ be IY'Qd• ~billktlh•(:cmolti~o~ ~br Cl~•IY ~~ . . . . . be beaten by any food service. At students to put on however much ice, and not one of complaint. ~ph011•1'•397..,..)9o!14•~.. ,.. "' The Carroll News, March 15, 1990 FORUM Page 3 Reform needed in today·s Catholic Church working machine must10clude IOterwork­ he sexual hvcs. How can these men com­ let professional Catholic busmcsspcrsons by Anton Zuiker ing parts, and to exclude women from the mand lifestyles that they cannot experi­ be responsible for the 1mmense amounts of Asst. Forum Editor leadership of the Church ts ouLrigh t oppres­ ence? The answer--they can't, which IS money that the faithful send to Rome each sion. The Virgin Mother can no longer why the laity must become involved in year? The winds of reform whirl around the suffice to be the sole female representative. molding Church teaching. "We claim ourrespons1blity as la1ty ... to world. Through Europe and through Ccn­ "We call upon the Church to discard the The very contemporary topic of btrth paruc1pate in the selecuon ofour bishops, a Lral America, freedom grows. Yet a 2,000 medieval discipline of mandatory priestly conLrol fits hereglovem hand. While many time-honored Lradlllon 10 the church," the year old Lradition grows stricter each day. advertJsement says. Indeed, JUSt as the "When I look around I see democracy in Chileans and N1caraguans are able to choose Chile and Nicaragua; Nelson Mandela free their leaders, so too should all Catholics in South Africa and apartheid on the way "/ see.. .the Vatican getting more and more choose llleir leaders. out; communism in Eastern Europe is fold­ autocratic, wanting the people to blindly At present, one-lll1rd of the bishops in ing up; and the Vatican geLLing more and follow the pope." the world were "appomtcd" by Pope John more autocratic, wanting the people to Paul II. And all of these are c•ther ultra or blindly follow the pope," said Rev. Peter Rev. Peter Fennessy S.J. very conservative Catholic men. In a time Fennessy, S .J. of world change and •mprovement, the Y cs, Roman Catholicism is no longer Catholic Church •s man•pulatcd by ap­ the liberating theology that Jesus lived and pointed leaders who refuse to cons1der the dicdfor.Rathcr, itseemstobe thckingdom celibacy ,"reads the advertisement, demand­ lllcolog•ans and priests do not accept Rome's lived expcnence of the world's Catholics. of the pope and his bishops, where the mg that the pnesthood revert to its original tcachmg on the refusal of b1rth conLrol, the These are just the beg1nn10gs of llle Christian laity become pawns that arc told structure. This early way allowed married lay Catholics do not listen to th•s teaching many issues that require change. As Catho­ to move two spaces here or there. priests. of the heirarchy. This only makes the he• l•cs we are challenged to take an acu ve role And yes, the winds of reform arc swirl­ "It is absolutely inevitable," Fennessy rarchy refuse to listen to the laity. 10 our liberation from the problems of the ing around the walls of the Vatican, calling says of llle future possiblity of married As world growth and overpopulation world. We cannot s11 back •n the pews and for the chess board to be cleared off so that priests. With our declining number of continue to creep onto us, we must re passively accept spoon-fed docLrmes lllat a new church may be set up. priests, the celebration of the sacrament of evaluate Church docLrine on birth conLrol. do not reflect our chang1ng lifestyles and "A Call For Reform in the Catholic Eucharist becomes less and less accessible. This re-evaluation can only happen through socieues. Church"topped atwopageNew York Times The Eucharist is llle food of Catholicism, d1alogue w1th both theologians and la~ty. The advertisement run in the Times has advertisement, accompanied by 4,505 and without nourishment we cannot expect "We call upon the church to become a ongtnated as a peution that will be circu­ names of American Catholics who have to survive for long. model of financial openness on all levels, lated among the Church heirarchy. We must banned together to seek change in the The reformers also call for the priest­ including the Vatican,"continues the docu­ m•rrorthiscallto reform, thiscalltoacuon. Church. This "Call For Reform" includes hood to be open to women, once again ment. Th1s in the face of the recent disclo­ And especially we here at John Carroll the many contemporary issues facing our including them in the life of the Church. sure of Vatican deficitS, which defies all Un1versity must prepare ourselves for the Cath olic life. "We call for consultation with thcCalllo­ common sense. The faith that Catholics winds of reform. Topping ll1c list of reforms is llle call to lic people in developing church tcachmg on show w1th the1r financial back mg 1s hcing Just as the ..\ ,SO