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Learn all about it in our Prefer Kindles to paperbacks? comprehensive coverage this Kindles now available to rent from Read about the latest movie issue. Dayton Memorial Library. and music releases from WORLD FOOD DAY See page 6 16 October See pages 3 & 4 See page 3 "Looper" to Bob Dylan. REGIS UNIVERSITY a biweekly publication IGHLANDER Serving the Regis community since 1888 Volume 95, Issue 2 www.issuu.com/regishighlander Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Father Fitzgibbons' thoughts on his new position, Jesuit education and the dating scene LaurenAemmer the Regis community to take Regis to ((I get to hear with really clear ears what's News & Events its next leveL That's really what I want editor to do, and... honestly I know that no happening, What'S the lived experience for one mind or no one heart is bet- ,, • •bb S J One hundred ter than a community of minds and people. - Father FitZgi ons . thirty-five years hearts. I really do know that I come this kind of work is when you have to sequence our needs, and how do we after Regis Uni- from a very big family, and that was say "no" to things that really are very fund them correctly?' Ifyou look at it versity first true. That's really what I look forward important, and sometimes you have in the broad view, this isn't "no'' for- opened its doors to students, Father to, working with Regis people, to re- to say "no;' It's not dissing somebody ever, this is "no" for now and because Fitzgibbons steps up to the plate as its ally grow the community, to grow the or some program, but we always have there are other priorities that really 24th president academic enterprise, and that's where to make hard choices But if you just have to come into place sooner. my passion is. look at it as saying "no," then you're Lauren Aemmer (LA): What are you not seeing it the right way. At least, LA: Where did the idea for Con- looking forward to most as president? LA: What aren't you looking for that wouldn't be okay for me. It's look- versations with the President come Father John Fitzgibbons, S.J. (Fr. ward to as president? ing at it in terms of, 'Okay, how do we from? Fitzgibbons): I think it's working in Fr. Fitzgibbons: The hard part of Continued on page 2 , % - I Fr. Fitzgibbons: I'm happy you get snagged and kind of discour [Growing up,] dad had a den, and asked that question. I was kind of aged? I need to hear that, because I'm you didn't want to wind up in the den. Contact the Higlander hoping you would. That really came new. There's a good side to that: I get If you got called [there], it was not 3333 Regis Blvd, Mail Stop I-8 from my experience at two universi to hear with really clear ears what's good, but we all knew sooner or later Denver, CO 80221 ties. I was a dean and a vice president happening, what's the lived experi [we] were going to be called to the at the University of San Francisco, and ence for people. The downside is, of den. You hope it wasn't for something Our Mission: my mentor was the president. Presi course, [that] my learning curve is you did! But the talk was, "You're go As the staff of the Regis University dent Fr. Privett was very, very good at like the business end of a hockey stick: ing to go to a Catholic high school:' biweekly publication, the communicating with all the constitu Straight up. I love that; I really do love and all the boys went to Jesuit high Highlander, we intend to serve the encies in the university. His town halls it. schools, and all the girls went to the campus and the neighborhood by were extraordinarily well-prepared, so Sacred Heart high schools, and there providing a forum for news, there was something on the budget, LA: Each conversation is themed was no discussion about it. [My dad information, and the exploration of there was always something on the around a specific topic or issue, cor would say,] "This is the finest educa ideas. Our publication is designed mission, there was always something rect? tion we can afford, and we're making to cultivate awareness, on where we were in the strategic Fr. Fitzgibbons: Thus far, I think serious sacrifices so you go to these understanding, and planning, executing what we need they will be. You have to touch a schools:· and the expectation was, dialogue about matters of to execute, and new faculty initia number of issues, because you've got a you work your best. You don't need to community importance. tives. There was always something, limited amount of time, but when you get 1\.s, but you need to do your best. everything got touched, and it was an meet with any of the different groups, That's really the gate, and that was it, Editor-In-Chief extraordinary habit. I always ask the supervisor or the V.P. and we all did it, all nine of us. That Robyn Kelly In this early phase of my time at Re or the student body or whomever, taught me something. gis, I need to listen more than I need "What do I need to know coming into I admire my father, and the Jesuits to talk. I'm a good talker, but I need this conversation? What is it that's just kind of focused [his work ethic] News & Events Editor to listen, so [that is the purpose for] on their mind first?" And I kind of for me. You know, I thought 10 be a Lauren Aernmer the conversations. I kind of took a cue prep that way, so I may not be able to high school English teacher, because from my former boss and adapted it answer all the questions, but I know I really thrived with language and Arts & Entertainment a little bit so that while I do say some something of the issues that they have, image and symbolism ...The Jesuits things about what's going on, I try and that helps me anticipate and listen really built on that, and I think if I had Editor mightily to keep my mouth shut and better. to give my vocation an image forever, ]elena Subotic listen a little more, though that's hard I was going to be a physician like my dad, and the Jesuits taught me how to for me! LA: What drew you to education? Sports & Health Fr. Fitzgibbons: My mom and dad pray and be in community and date. LA: What are you hoping to gain are both... really lovely, good people. Believe it or not, you could ask the Editor from these conversations? I mean that. The older I get, the more Jesuits anything, and they wouldn't Kendra Tyboroski Fr. Fitzgibbons: I want to hear the I know how good they are. I know, blanch. "Yeah, well remember to treat truth. l want to hear where \)eO\)le shocking! her with respect, buddy:' They were are, what really works for them, what Dads a physician, and mom's an kind ofearthy, [saying], "Love is about Layout Designer Matt Burns they hope for, what is meaningful to artist, both academically trained. Dad respect and treating people the right them, what works here at Regis for did a bachelor's, master's and medical waY:' I will never forget that. There them, and I want to hear the things degree at a Jesuit university; mom got were no unanswerable questions, and Photographers that don't work so well, and there's a her art degree at a Jesuit university, I was so attracted to [that]. It meant Allison Dalrymple balance in that. It's not all rosy and and they're both the first ever to go to the world to me, and it was a way of Kaitlyn Strut good - it's mostly that - but what university and get a degree on both being a physician of the soul. That is doesn't work? Why? What's the snag? sides of the family. My family are Irish what [the Jesuits] were, and that was Is it a process? Is it a procedure? Is it, immigrants, and we were cops and my vocation. That is where I got it, Business & "Well, we've always done it this way, bar tenders and farmers, and that's and I love it. I don't want to do any Advertising Manager so we need to do it this way:' or is it our background.