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The Collegian Volume 115 2017-2018 Article 3 9-19-2017 Volume 115, Number 3 - Tuesday, September 19, 2017 Saint Mary's College of California Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/collegian Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Saint Mary's College of California (2017) "Volume 115, Number 3 - Tuesday, September 19, 2017," The Collegian: Vol. 115 , Article 3. Available at: https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/collegian/vol115/iss1/3 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by Saint Mary's Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Collegian by an authorized editor of Saint Mary's Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MORAGA, CALIFORNIA • VOLUME 115, NUMBER 3 • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2017 • STMARYSCOLLEGIAN.COM • TWITTER: @SMC_COLLEGIAN • FACEBOOK.COM/SMCCOLLEGIAN Mass of the Holy Spirit provides a model for unity What’s Inside Annual mass celebrates both campus diversity and collegiate tradition NEWS OREGON WILDFIRES Saint Mary’s students from Oregon speak on how the fires have afected their lives. PAGE 2 CAREER CENTER The Career and Professional Devolopment Center unveils new programming and resources. PAGE 3 CULTURE HUMANS OF SAINT MARY’S Students were asked the question: “How is your heart doing today?” instead of the nonchalant “How are you?” PAGE 4 FATHER TOM MCELLIGOT offers the Eucharist to a student at the Mass of the Holy Spirit. (Courtesy of Gerry Serrano) BY DREW GAI Jesuit schools across the world have cel- In addition, the chapel was filled with CONTRIBUTING WRITER ebrated the Mass of the Holy Spirit, and smiling faces as the faculty processed in, in recent years, other Catholic schools donning their comically classical doctoral At this year’s Mass of the Holy Spirit, have followed suit. robes with hats of every shape and size the Saint Mary’s chaplain, Fr. Hai, began We can learn from the Jesuits’ willing- to match. Here, the Mass portrayed the his homily by poking fun at the ques- ness to lovingly share their tradition for essence of unity: not a watering down tionable character of the Jesuits (the the benefit of the whole. In fact, the Mass of our identities, but rather both parties other well-known Catholic order whose of the Holy Spirit, in and of itself, blesses delighting in the unique expression of the charism is to educate). He noted that us with that same unitive Spirit and other and complementing one another FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE when one searches “Mass of the Holy provides us with a model by which one under a common banner. The country due and Nelly perform at Spirit” on Google, multiple links to Jesuit can witness as peacemakers in a bitterly Alicia McCallister ‘18 noted, “In the the Concord Pavilion, bridging the gap schools appear before Saint Mary’s. He broken world. Mass, we are all united in the one body between hip-hop and country. PAGE 5 implied that the Jesuit schools must have This year’s Mass expressed that unity of Christ. In a similar way, all of the stu- somehow cheated their way to the top, in both word and deed. The Mass of the dents and faculty at [Saint Mary’s] are OPINION saying, “but who can trust those Jesuits Holy Spirit brought together the best united regardless of our differences and anyway!” from both the Catholic tradition and disagreements.” McCallister is the Lasal- SOME SAY FREE SPEECH In good fun, the Jesuits have been the the tradition of an institute of higher lian Peer Minister for Liturgy, Prayer, IS UNDER ATTACK butt of many Lasallian jokes over the education. The organ boomed its melodic, and Faith Formation at the Mission and But what happens when free years. But perhaps they can have the last compelling voice, and the altar and sanc- Ministry Center. speech is hate speech? PAGE 6 laugh, for the Mass of the Holy Spirit tuary were dressed in a boldly elegant red, Fr. Hai developed this same senti- was, in fact, inaugurated by Jesuits as an which called to mind the Holy Spirit ap- ment in the remainder of his homily. academic welcome for the students of pearing as tongues of fire to the Apostles He preached about a passage of Isaiah their very first school in 1548. Since then, at Pentecost. see Holy Spirit, page 2 “Tools for Difcult Dialogues"sparks disagreement BY KATE ARENCHILD Anderson, who facilitated the work- ideologies, religion, and sexual orienta- CONTRIBUTING WRITER shop, said she does not have personal ex- tion. SPORTS perience as a student or professor in the She emphasized that identities that In an attempt to help craft a better program, but she has “many of the ma- are “seen” are not grounds to make a UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Seminar classroom, the Intercultural terials offered in the various Seminars.” judgement. For example, someone could WEEK 1 RECAP Center (IC) hosted a series of workshops Three Seminar faculty members were in be “white passing” but identify as Argen- The top four favorites in the UEFA entitled “Tools for Difficult Dialogues.” attendance, none of whom were involved tinian, or look female, but identify as a Champions League kick of the The IC offered two introductory work- male. These identities must be accounted beginning of the 2017. PAGE 7 shops on Tuesday, Sept. 12 and Wednes- for in the classroom, as they will affect day, Sept. 13. An advanced workshop “Depending on your the way one interprets the text. was also scheduled for the following day, “[Your identities] are a part of you, Sept. 14, but was cancelled. social location, [they] inform how you see the world, Desiree Anderson, the Director of gender identity, and how you interact with people, and how the IC, organized these workshops in you read and analyze text,” Anderson collaboration with Joseph Zeccardi, personal background, clarified in a separate interview with Rashaan Meneses, Frank Murray, and you will see different the Collegian. “For me, it is about the David Arndt of the Seminar Program and recognition that identity plays a role in Corliss Watkins from Student Engage- things in the text,” everything we do.” ment and Success (SEAS). Anderson did argued Anderson . “It doesn’t mean I need to know ev- not clarify the Seminar Department’s erything about a person’s identity to be VOLLEYBALL DROPS MATCHES level of involvement in the creation of able to understand them, but I should be AGAINST CAL AND STANFORD the program. with the creation of the program. From aware that my perspective is just that: my Despite falling to both Pac- “[The purpose of these workshops] is a show of hands, it appeared that the perspective. And it is my responsibility to 12 schools, the Gaels put up a to ‘help students engage in conversation majority of students in attendance were recognize that others will not see things tough fight, especially against more effectively—to not shut down ideas required to attend for their classes. [in the text] the way I do,” she said. No. 4 Stanford, the defending or attack people, but to be able to further Anderson spoke of identities that are To illustrate this point, she showed National Champions. PAGE 8 the conversation,” said Anderson during “seen” such as age, gender, and race as the workshop a few optical illusions, like the Sept. 12 workshop. well as those “unseen” such as political see Seminar, page 3 2 THE COLLEGIAN • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2017 STMARYSCOLLEGIAN.COM THE INSIDE PAGE Holy Spirit: At mass, students bless professors and professors bless students CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 All this is to say that though consecutive prayer for peace. unexpectedly, the gesture was there are stark and real differ- She then continued by offering reversed, and the students were where the author looks forward ences within our community, her own prayer for peace. Rebec- called on to bless their faculty to a time when “the wolf will live we need not attack each other ca Milioto ‘18 praised Professor members. For McCallister, this with the lamb, the leopard will over them, he said. In fact, the Bains’ words, saying, “It was one blessing was profound both so- lie down with the goat, the calf more we disagree, the more we of my favorite parts of the Mass. cially and theologically, saying, and the lion and the yearling to- are called to reach out in love to She did such a great job of weav- “It reminded me of the Trinity: gether…” (Is 11:6). Fr. Hai urged one another, Fr. Hai concluded. ing together both cross-cultural the Father reaches out in love to those gathered to not merely After his homily, Fr. Hai in- and interreligious issues with the Son, the Son reaches back to look forward to this heavenly vited Erica Bains, Professor of reverence and grace.” the Father, and the Holy Spirit is state, but work towards making Economics and Business Ad- The final unitive expression of the very love between them that it a reality here and now. In Sem- ministration and a member of the Mass was perhaps the most binds them together as Trinity.” inar classrooms, he explained, the Sikh community, to speak powerful. Before the sending This insight is made even The Collegian there may be a student who is a and pray about unity on a global forth, Fr. Hai invited all of the more impactful when one re- Saint Mary’s College of California wolf and a student who is a lamb; scale. She spoke of a fast-grow- faculty to extend their hands members that this specific Mass a leopard and a goat in a faculty ing movement in which people of in a blessing over the students, called upon the Holy Spirit, the meeting; a calf and a lion during all faiths from around the world praying for their success and person of unitive love, to bless us P.O.

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