USF Board of Trustees Chairman and Bay Area Civic Leader Dies at 75
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SanFOGHOR Francisco N UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO VOLUME 89, NUMBER 18 THURSDAY, MARCH 25,1993 ASUSF Elections underway Candidates speak as students go to the polls Kelly Sullivan cession and summer sessions and create Features Editor greater school spirit. He hopes to serve as a "facilitator and harmonizer" for the Approximately 40 students turned out students. for the "Meet the Candidates" panel held A third candidate, Kim Callis, was in Crossroads this past Monday evening. interested in running for the ASUSF The candidates were presented once again presidency as well, but was disqualified in the Crossroads during "dead hour" on because he failed to turn in his expense Tuesday. report on time. Bill Jordan and Jay Treat are the two The Vice Presidential candidates are candidates running for the office of Lesley DeHass and Lisa M. Won. ASUSF President. They each focused on The main issue DeHaas wishes to fo different issues and offered their insight cus on is education. on what the role of the ASUSF President Won hopes to empower the student should be. body and clearly define the issues that Bill Jordan, who is presently serving students want to see addressed. as Junior Class President, stated his Students had an opportunity to vote agenda and priorities that he would like Wednesday and Thursday between 10 to see fulfilled. First, he wants to main a.m. and 4 p.m. in front of Mainstreet tain the current Student's Right and Free Market. dom. A second goal is to "recapture Voting will also take place between 6 Koret" and make it a more vital part of p.m. and 8 p.m. in the lobby of Gillson the University for the students. An in Hall on Wednesday, and in the lobby of creased awareness in Multiculturalism Phelan Hall on Thursday night during and renovation of the commuter lounge the same hours. into a 24 hour facility are two other main Julio Leyva, chairperson of the Elec concerns. tions Governing Board, is optimistic Fr. Schlegel presenting Melvin Swig with the USF President's medallion, tor Jay Treat, who has attended USF for about the voter turnout this year. Over service to the USF community, last year three years, promised to put "progres 700 people came out to vote last year, sive change" into affect. If elected, some which was the biggest turnout in history. areas that he wants to target are fixed "We are shooting for a bigger number tuition rates for freshmen, an increase in this year," Leyva said. USF Board of Trustees student parking, financial aid for inter- Chairman and Bay Area 1993-94 Financial Inside: Aid increase will Features Civic Leader dies at 75 assist students Some facts about PFM Rosela Balinbin cisco Film Festival to the City. Also, in (page 5) News Editor part because of his efforts, the American Julianna Acken Conservatory Theater based itself in San Foghorn Staff Writer Forum American flags on the USF campus Francisco. flew at half-staff last week in commemo This past December, Swig was named The Financial Aid office has an Fr. Schlegel's "State of ration of former USF Board of Trustees a recipient of two USF honorary doctor nounced that there is a $800,000 in the University" address Chairman and Bay Area Civic Leader ates, and a "member emeritus" by the crease in the budget for financial aid (page 8) Melvin M. Swig. USF Faculty Association. programs for next year. Swig, who was honored last year by After serving two years on the board, This boost will offset the 6.5 percent the American Hebrew Congregations for he was named Chairman in 1985 by tuition increase, which Vice President of Entertainment his "life-long contributions to racial and former USF President the Rev. John Lo Business and Finance Bill Nutting pre Review of the College religious harmony" died March 14 after Schiavo, S.J. As chairman ofthe Board, dicts will generate over S4 million in Player's "Cabaret" a long bout of cancer. Swig oversaw the deletion of a S6 mil additional revenue for the 1993-94 year. "Mel Swig will always remain distin lion University deficit, an increase from The current financial aid budget is (pages 13-14) guished for his apparently bottomless a$3to$50millioninUSF'sendowment, S6.2 million. Next term it will be $7 energy and optimism," USF President a continuous enrollment increase, and million to meet all requirements includ The Best of 1993 the Rev. John P. Schlegel, S J. said. "No the opening of the Koret Health and ing need based grants, merit scholar matter how many civic projects or chari Recreation Center. ships, and athletic scholarships. Let us know what you table undertakings vied for his attention, A prominent leader in the local Jewish In the 1992-93 academic year 46 per think is cool his commitment was such that each re community, Swig first became involved cent of the undergraduate students, and ceived his undivided attention and dedi with USF in the late 1970s when he 60 percent of the total student body, (pages 15) cation." helped to establish a summer program to received some sort of financial aid, and For his long service to USF, Swig was bring USF students to Israel at the decree Director of the Financial Aid office Su honored last year with the President's of Associate Vice-President of Univer san Murphy anticipates that there willbe Sports Medallion for exceptional volunteer ser sity Relations and Director of Judaic more students eligible for aid next year. Baseball, for those who vice and support of fundraising. studies Rabbi David Davis. Murphy said that the new Free Appli As a civic leader, Swig led the Cham Swig established an endowed chair at cation for Federal Student Aid (FAFS A) care (page 16) ber of Commerce to bring the San Fran Please see Swig, page 4 Please see Financial Aid, page 4 1 Eews ,.m: ';:•:' !!' liillliill GE SELECTED SYNOPS F STUDliNT NEWS FROM AROUNO THE WORLD Anti-abortion group criticizes Judge orders state to Combined degree program Notre Dame pay mascot's benefits Georgetown University and the Catholic University of In South Bend, Indiana, an anti-abortion organization is In Baltimore, a judge has ruled that the state of Maryland America are offering a combined degree program in medi claiming that the University of Notre Dame canceled a must pay worker's compensation to a student who was cine and philosophical bioethics. conference that the group had planned for this month injured while performing as the university's mascot at a The five-year program, aimed at helping doctors deal because administrators didn't want to be associated with a football game against the University of Virginia. with ethical issues in medicine, is thought to be one of a handful in the country. It allows students to combine a staunch pro-life organization. The student, Scott Rudolph, sued the state for benefits medical degree at Georgetown with a master's degree in But Notre Dame officials say that Collegians Activated to after Virginia's mascot pushed him and Mr. Rudolph broke philosophy from either university. Liberate Life had never sought authorization for the gather his arm in three places. ing. The two mascots had been pretending to fight. Mr. Students receive broad training in philosophical theory as well as bioethics, a growing field that examines such issues A Notre Dame spokesman said officials learned of the Rudolph wore a terrapin costume. as euthanasia and genetic engineering. group's plan to hold a conference on the campus from a The state had argued that Mr. Rudolph was not an official newspaper advertisement employee ofthe institution and therefore was not entitled to Students can also earn a doctorate in philosophy. The program is coordinated by Georgetown's Center for A spokesman for the group, however, said Notre Dame worker's compensation. Clinical Bioethics, whose director is Edmund D. Pellegrino, officials had known about the conference for months, and Judge Joseph Sills ruled that the student qualified as a a former president of Catholic. became worried when they learned that the conference university employee and therefore should receive compen would criticize the university for not supporting anti-abor sation. Students devote a full year—between the second and tion activities. third year of medical school—to philosophy courses. Dur ing that year they accompany medical professors on their clinical rounds. Minority students issue ultimatum Program graduates would be candidates for hospital boards Underwater robot lets students view that decide ethical matters. sea life "Biomedical ethical issues are going to proliferate," Dr. Minority students at two institutions have issued an Pellegrino said. "There'll be an increasing need for people ultimatum to their college administrators: Improve the who have formal training in philosophical ethics to make Professors and students at the University of Rhode Island campus climate or we'll leave. bedside decisions." watched red tubewormsand gray whales this month through Tensions began to surface at William Penn College last the eyes of an underwater robot called Jason. month when students that the college did not do enough in About 9,000 professors, students and local schoolchil recognition of Black History Month. dren got a close-up look via satellite as the robot crawled Then, at two campus forums, minority students com Medical students charged in frolic along 7,000 feet below the surface of the water off the coast plained about the lack of minority faculty members and of Baja, California. accused administrators of being insensitive to their con Seventeen medical students were charged with disorderly The university was just one of 26 locations in the United cerns.