A newsletter for the faculty and staff of the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University December 2003

Values Bolster Gagliardi’s Winning Tradition prepared by Glenda Isaacs Burgeson Community editor Communication and Marketing Services By now, readers of the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times know what Central Minnesotans have known for a long time. SJU has a grand football tradition, led by a great and decidedly untraditional coach, John Gagliardi, and his dedicat- ed coaching staff. In the barrage of press coverage (See Page 2 for a summa- ry.), reporters gave ample attention to Gagliardi’s now famous coaching philosophy of no — no hitting during practice, no yelling at players, no practice if it’s too darn hot or cold or too many gnats, etc. Many also mentioned his emphasis on char- acter and integrity. His colleagues suggest, however, that his philosophy of no, along with his respect for his players and his attention to char- acter development are more than just charming quirks of a lucky coach. In fact, they may be the keys to the success of col- John Gagliardi was honored at a ceremony at the White House. lege football’s most victorious coach. Fr. Timothy Backous, interim athletic director, discussed Gagliardi also maintains a balanced perspective. the importance of character development in Johnnie football. Fr. Wilfred recalled how once, just prior to a championship “John works as much on character building as he does on game, a player had a scheduling conflict between an interview athletic prowess,” Fr. Timo said. “He tends to emphasize more for medical school and football practice. Gagliardi did not hes- enduring qualities.” itate to let the student know what his priorities should be. “He For example, he explained, when a student athlete per- told him to go to the interview.” forms well during practice or in a game, Gagliardi tends to Those priorities are practiced by all the coaches in the ath- praise the effort rather than the expertise. letic department, Fr. Timo said. “He might say of the player, ‘He’s a hard worker,’ or ‘He’s “Overall, I do know that academics is the top priority for dedicated.’” Fr. Timo said. Values of hard work, dedication and these coaches,” he said. “They have a perspective about what perseverance become team aspirations, he said. is really important.” “We have some wonderful kids playing here. They are The students understand those priorities as well. Fr. Timo smart, involved. John recognizes that.” frequently travels with SJU teams and said that, regardless of In fact, Gagliardi considers himself a teacher, rather than a the sport, he observes during travel that “kids have their noses coach, according to longtime friend, Fr. Wilfred Theisen, pro- buried in books. Half their luggage seems to be homework.” fessor of physics. Often, athletics serve as a portal to the university itself. As a teacher, Gagliardi focuses on the mental aspects of the “Forty-three percent of our current SJU freshmen class game, on attitude and motivation. He builds confidence. were recruited by a coach, and 78 percent were interested in According to Fr. Wilfred, a pre-game Gagliardi pep talk will be SJU because of its athletic programs. That’s an amazing num- something like this: “Keep doing what we’ve been doing all ber,” Fr. Timo said. “Does that mean that 43 percent of our stu- week. You know what to do.” dents are here because of athletics? No, they’re here because “Somehow he motivates the kids to play well, to take pride of the contributions our athletic department makes to our in the way they play. He builds that pride.” overall mission.” 409th Victory Season Attracts November 2, 2003 Record-Searchlight, CA Times Record News, TX Attention to Campus New York Daily News, NY Campus News Peninsulaclarion.com, AK South Bend Tribune, IN Times Picayune, LA CSB Campus Ministry prepared by Glenda Isaacs Burgeson Chicago Daily Southtown, IL Community editor Chicago Daily Herald, IL Advisory Board Formed Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH Communication and Marketing Services Billings Gazette, MT St. Petersburg Times, FL Submitted by S. Eunice Antony At the SJU Bookstore, planning for this year’s Indianapolis Star, IN Philadelphia Inquirer, PA Benedictine Values Consultant historic football season began long before the open- Lexington Herald Leader, KY CSB Campus Ministry ing kickoff. Last year, staff at the bookstore began November 8, 2003 Helena Times, MT The CSB Campus Ministry considering commemorative merchandise when Boston Globe, MA Advisory Board met for the first time Atlanta Journal Constitution, GA John Gagliardi reached his 400th victory, according Wichita Eagle, KS on Nov. 14. Board members were Biloxi Sun Herald, MS to Cindy Ann Van Vickle, general product buyer. Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL invited by the director of Campus “At the beginning, we tried not to focus on any Miami Herald Tribune, FL Ministry, Patricia Cespedes- Bradenton Herald, FL one particular item that would outdate itself,” she Times Daily, AL Schueller, to be the “eyes, ears and said. San Francisco Chronicle, CA voice” of the broader community to The Missoulian, MT Pennants and football helmets have been big Arizona Republic, AZ the Campus Ministry staff, and also Monroe News Star, LA sellers this season, along with the Gagliardi com- Richmond Times Dispatch, VA to be the voice of Campus Ministry memorative bobblehead. Knoxville News Sentinel, TN in their respective areas. Durham Herald Sun, NC At home games, the bookstore operates the Bradenton Herald, FL Members of the Advisory Board Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, IA are David Arnott, assistant profes- Johnnie Stadium Shop that is popular with fans. Rapid City Journal, SD The Porterville Recorder, CA sor of strings/orchestra; Karen Sales were especially brisk on the 409 game day. North County Times, CA Cindy Dirkes, assistant director, enjoyed the excite- Lodi News-Sentinel, CA Backes, associate dean of admis- Baltimore Sun, MD sions; Barb Fahnhorst, associate ment of working at the shop that day. “It was fun try- Santa Maria Times, CA Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL director of financial aid; Dan ing to watch the game,” she said. Atlanta Journal Constitution, GA McKanan, assistant professor of Don Forbes, bookstore director, said the com- Times Daily, AL Miami Herald, FL theology; Ron Pagnucco, assistant memorative merchandise has helped boost other Biloxi Sun Herald, MS FOX Sports professor of peace studies; Adeline sales as well. On game days, people come into the Washington Post, DC Spitzer, director of international stu- store to buy a souvenir and wind up browsing the Bradenton Herald, FL Wichita Eagle, KS dents; and Katie Hayes, CSB sen- aisles. The store also has benefited from exposure The Herald News, MA ior and member of the CSB USA Today on the gojohnnies.com Web site. New York Times Senate. Trish Givens, office coordi- “On Monday, after the big game, we were getting Boulder Daily Camera, CO Rocky Mountain News, CO nator for student activities/leader- hits on the Web site,” he said. ESPN ship development and support staff CNN/SI Media anticipation of Gagliardi’s historic “March ABC12.com, MI for campus ministry, graciously to History” began with preseason coverage and KSTP, MN WXXA, NY served as secretary. advanced steadily. Local, state and national cover- The Advisory Board members age has been extensive, and international press cov- November 9, 2003 Peninsulaclarion.com were introduced to the mission and South Bend Tribune, IN erage included a Nov. 7 story in the International South Florida Sun Sentinel, FL vision of CSB Campus Ministry. Nashua Telegraph, NH — “AM Sports Herald Tribune, France, and a Nov. 10 story in the Report” Topics discussed at this first meet- Taipei Times, Taiwan. For the 409th victory game, Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH ing included the interface of the Baltimore Sun, MD 87 media credentials were issued by Michael Contra Costa Times, CA faith life of students and its impact Chicago Daily Southtown, IL on their daily lives and decisions, Hemmesch, sports information director and direc- Louisville Courier Journal, KY Record-Searchlight, CA the interaction of Campus Ministry tor of communication, Communication and Market- The Desert Sun, CA ing Services. Billings Gazette, MT with faculty and staff, and the rele- Salt Lake Tribune, UT vance of Campus Ministry to non- The following is a partial list, focusing primarily Jackson Clarion Ledger, MS Oakland Tribune, CA Catholics and non-Christians. on the record-tying and record-breaking weekends, Alameda Times-Star, CA Patricia Cespedes-Schueller intro- of out-of-state media outlets that carried SJU St. Petersburg Times, FL Provo Daily Herald, UT duced a new Campus Ministry pro- reports. Links to much of the press coverage may be Chicago Daily Herald, IL Biloxi Sun Herald, MS posal, “Understanding Women’s accessed at gojohnnies.com/football. Ventura County Star, CA Lives and Contributions in the Philadelphia Enquirer, PA November 1, 2003 Los Angeles Times, CA Seattle Times, WA Global Context,” which is in the Southeastern Missourian, MO Lexington Herald Leader, KY Athens Banner-Herald, GA embryo stage. Denver Post, CO Dallas Morning News, TX Indianapolis Star, IN The next meeting of the Advisory Coos Bay World, OR Fresno Bee, CA November 10, 2003 Las Vegas Sun, NV Board will be in January. One topic South Florida Sun-Sentinel, FL Times Record News, TX will be the role of Campus Ministry Washington Post, DC Knoxville News Sentinel, TN Billings Gazette, MT Minnesota Public Radio in addressing the Catholic Social Philadelphia Enquirer, PA Gwinnett Daily Post, GA ABC12.com, MI Teachings and their implications for The Ledger, FL KSTP, MN The Birmingham News, AL the upcoming political elections. WTNH, CT The Arbiter Online Denver Post, CO Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA Taipei Times

CSB 2 SJU Monastic Tradition: Leisure and Wholeness The Welcome Mat by Br. Zachary Wilberding, OSB We welcome the following to Editor’s note: Each month, the Healthy Learning Community and the Partners for Healthy Learning CSB/SJU: promote a health theme to the CSB and SJU campuses. These groups are involved in the promotion of Neil Andruschak, Athletics physical, intellectual, emotional, social, occupational and spiritual health. To learn more about the Todd Martinson, Library Healthy Learning Community and the Partners for Healthy Learning, please visit the Web site at Matthew Boundy, Custodial http://www.csbsju.edu/extending/projects.htm Services Pamela Broughton, Dining Early in my monastic life, I was introduced to Genesis tells us that, after creating humans, God Service the Latin term otium monasticum, which trans- rested. The work was complete and that comple- Pamela Wilder, Custodial lates into English as monastic leisure. The College tion was celebrated with a day of rest. Spiritually, Services of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University grew we join in the celebration of our wholeness, our from the monastic tradition and I believe that the completeness, as part of God’s creation by ceasing Farewell to Friends monastic concept of leisure has something to con- our activity and entering into rest. Physically, we Joseph Hope, Electrical Shop tribute to our health. give our body time to restore energy and tissue Jeffrey Boyle, Life Safety It is well-known that stress has a part in creating used and/or damaged by our activity. Rest means Mary Jane Kortenbusch, Dining many forms of psychological and physical illness. stopping activity but it also means resting from Service We talk about being stressed all the time and ways thoughts. Our minds can chatter away at us even Nadine Schnettler, Human of relieving it. There are plenty of self-help books when our bodies are still and so we find it helpful to Resources on stress and its relief. And the pharmaceutical take control of our attention and allow it to rest, to Shannon Altrich-Olson, Theater industry is doing its part to develop biochemical withdraw from attending to bothersome thoughts. Jennifer Thielen, Custodial relief of stress and the illnesses which grow from it. From rest we can enter again into activity with a Nancy Posch, Food Service Stress and its relief are big business. I recommend greater sense of who we are and activity can create Jennie Dolence, Dining Service otium, leisure, as a mode of stress self-manage- a greater mindfulness in us. Paul Ruszat Dining Service ment. It costs nothing but some self-discipline, and Recommendations for further exploring leisure therefore may actually be stressful at first for the and mindfulness: inexperienced practitioner. ● Thoughts Matter, written from a Christian per- Leisure may be defined as freedom from activity. spective by S. Mary Margaret Funk, OSB. It is rest. To rest is to claim our freedom as com- ● The Miracle of Mindfulness, written from a plete beings. The first creation story in the book of Buddhist perspective by Thich Nhat Hanh.

Fr. Columba Stewart Hearst Foundation Makes to Lead HMML Award to Saint John’s

Fr. Columba Stewart, OSB, has been appointed SJU recently received its third grant from the executive director of the SJU’s Hill Monastic Hearst Foundation, San Francisco, to underwrite Manuscript Library (HMML) by the HMML Board of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation Endowed Overseers. His nomination to the Board of Scholarship Fund at the University. The most recent Overseers was made by SJU President Br. Dietrich gift of $100,000 will be added to the existing Reinhart, in consultation with the Chancellor, Abbot $100,000 endowment. Its first priority is to award John Klassen, OSB. scholarships to undergraduate Latino, Chicano and Prior to his appointment as executive director of Hispano students at Saint John’s. Since the pro- HMML, Fr. Columba served as professor of theology at gram’s inception, four Johnnies have been named CSB/SJU, curator of research collections, and senior Hearst Scholars, including Jaime Ramirez ’00, research fellow in Eastern Christianity for HMML. His Michael Guzman ’02, Ryan Hurtado ’04 and Anthony academic background includes education at Harvard, Yglesias ’04. Yale and Oxford and distinguished credentials in the- The Hearst Foundation, Inc. was founded in 1945 ology, liturgy and scripture. He has published several by publisher and philanthropist William Randolph books and more than 50 reviews and articles. Hearst. The Foundation’s charitable goals reflect “It is, I think, no exaggeration,” wrote Dr. Brian the philanthropic interests of William Randolph E. Daley, SJ, the Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Hearst — education, health, social service and cul- Theology at the University of Notre Dame, “to say ture. Within these four areas, the Foundation assists that he [Fr. Columba Stewart] is at present time the institutions in providing opportunities to under- leading authority in the English speaking world on served and underrepresented populations. Within early Christian monastic theology.” the field of education, the Foundation supports

CSB 3 SJU undergraduate education through the establishment Lapinski and Stanislaw Gromadzki. Przeglad filo- of endowed scholarships at private liberal arts col- zoficzno — literacki. Uniwersytet Warszawski, COMMUNITY leges and universities. Instytut Filozofii, Warszawa, POLAND. NR 2/4 (2003) 177-188. This publication was also sponsored Community is published by the by the Embassy of Argentina in Warsaw. This issue CSB/SJU Communication and contains a selection of writings by J.L. Borges trans- Marketing Services staff: Faculty/Staff News lated into Polish and a selection of critical essays in Jon McGee, Vice President for philosophy. Institutional Planning, Research Rick Saucier, assistant professor of manage- and Communication ment, presented two papers at the eighth annual LuAnn Reif, assistant professor of nursing, Marketing Management Association Fall Educators’ Diane Veale Jones, professor of nutrition, and Greg Hoye, Executive Director Conference Sept. 11-12 in Nashville, TN. The first, Katie Jirele, senior dietetic student, presented of Communication and Marketing “Implementing Service Learning In Marketing “Extending the Classroom Walls: The Healthy Services Courses,” examined current service learning prac- Learning Community and Student Learning” at the Julie Marthaler, Office tices at CSB/SJU and how this process can be effec- eighth annual Learning Communities and Coordinator (CSB) tively implemented in marketing courses. The sec- Collaboration Conference: Student Learning and ond paper, “Student-Led Marketing Ethics Engagement, Indianapolis, IN, Nov. 6. All three pre- Viv Krueger, Office Discussion Groups,” studied issues and benefits in senters are part of the CSB/SJU Healthy Learning Coordinator (SJU) allowing students to lead a class to cover important Community. Veale Jones is the director, Reif is a Mike Durbin, Sports specific marketing ethical issue topics. team member and Jirele is the project assistant. Information Director (CSB) Their presentation focused on the cross-disciplinary Daniel Finn, Clemens Professor of Economics and cross-functional collaboration among faculty, Michael Hemmesch, and professor of theology, presented the 2004 residential life, student development and health edu- SJU Director of Communication Aquinas lecture entitled, “Is Cashing In Selling Out? A cation staff and students that impact student learn- Jo Ann Shroyer, Christian Perspective on the Morality of Economic ing and leads to improved health, wellness and learn- CSB Director of Communication Life,” at Mount Mercy College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) ing. on Oct. 8. On Oct. 10, he presented a talk on afford- Glenda Isaacs Burgeson, able housing strategies as part of a panel on Sharmistha Self, assistant professor of eco- Assistant Director of “Successes and Near Misses in Affordable Housing” nomics, had two articles published this year in Communication/Community Editor in Bethesda, MD. The panel was part of a national Applied Economics and Journal of Asian Tammy Hansen, Assistant conference sponsored by the Innovative Housing Economics. A third publication will be in print in Director of Communication/ Institute on Inclusionary Zoning for city planners Economics of Education Review in 2004. This year, Electronic and Print Media from around the nation. On Oct. 25-26, he attended she also had papers accepted at each of the region- the meeting of the Board of the Catholic Theological al meetings for the economics profession (eastern, Greg Becker, Senior Associate Society of America in Chicago. On Nov. 5, Finn gave western, midwestern, and southern), the annual Director of Publications a talk on “Work and Christian Faith” at the Church of meeting, and at an international economics confer- and Graphic Services St. Augustine in St. Cloud. ence sponsored by the United Nations University in Kay L. Bechtold, Associate Helsinki, Finland this summer. In January, she will Director of Publications Ronald M. Bosrock, Myers Chair and professor present a paper at the annual meeting of the and Graphic Services of management, gave a presentation at Mankato American Economics Association in San Diego. State University for International Education Week, Ron Schoonover, Assistant sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Manju Parikh, associate professor of political Director of Publications Department of Education, on Nov. 13. The title of science, organized and chaired a panel on “U.S. and Graphic Services his presentation was “The Need for Training Global Foreign Policy of Regime Change: Iraq and North Kathy Wenker ’04, Graduates.” Korea” for the Minnesota Political Science Community Student Coordinator Association’s annual meeting on Nov. 8 at Gustavus Marina Martín, associate professor of MCL, Adolphus College in St. Peter. was invited by the University of Nottingham (UK) to serve as the external examiner of a Ph.D. disserta- tion entitled: “Fiction as Cognitive Artifacts: The Deadline for the January Case of Jorge Luis Borges’ Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis In the Media issue is December 19. Tertius.” The viva voce defense took place on Oct. To share your information 21, at the campus of the Univeristy of Nottingham. Jean Scoon, director of publications, SJU and story ideas, simply She also had one of her articles translated into Institutional Advancement, was recently quoted at e-mail them directly Polish: “Borges, apolegeta idealizmu.” The article length in the newsletter Nonprofit Communi- to Community at: came out in Borges, a special issue of the cations Report on the topic of “Why CEO Annual [email protected]. Philosophy Journal, published by the philosophy Report Letters Are So Bad.” The November newslet- department at the Univeristy of Warsaw. It was ter (vol. 1, no. 7) featured on its front page her list translated by Krzysztof Lapinski and edited by six obstacles to lively, interesting CEO letters.

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