Part-Timers 'Exploited'

Scene: Half English, All Bloke—Page 12 Sports: Spotlight on Joe Jacobitz—Page 18 HHHI San Francisco FOGHORN THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO MARCH 14, 2002 WWW.FOGHORNONLINE.COM VOLUME 98, ISSUE 14 Guys in Hayes. Overnight Students welcome new policy in dorms Victoria Leon Guerrero place, said J.J, Thorp, director FOGHORN STAFFWRITER of ORL. Erik Bond was the first male "I think [the new policy] is guest to sign in after midnight on a better than it was before, because weekday at the all-female Hayes we have the opportunity to have Healy Hall since it opened in 1966. people over later," Corby said."We At 12:01 a.m. on March 4, Bond don't feel like we have so many handed over his identification card rules." to the hall's front desk worker while Under the old policy, guests of his girlfriend, freshman Kai Corby the opposite sex could not stay stood beside him with a huge smile past midnight on weekdays or on her face. past 2 a.m. on Fridays and Sat Hayes and Gilson Hall, both urdays. freshman residence halls at the "It is not uncommon for Uni University of San Francisco, re versities to have more limited visi cently implemented a trial 24-hour tation for younger students," visitation policy after a group of Thorp said. "I think in theory, the students made an appeal to the belief behind it is that it's the first VICTORIA LEON GUERRERO/FOGHORN Office of Residence Life to remove time that people are away from Nadia Bowlejiouch,/res/im««, cuddles with her boyfriend Nick Wilkerson. Wilkerson said that he likes a curfew that has always been in Males Stay Overnight: Page 4 the new 24-hour visitation policy in Hayes all-girl dormitory because, "I get to visit my girlfriend more." Part-Timers 'Exploited' Sexual Scandal in the Church Jessica Robles "I know in our department we Shadi Rahlml lested for three years by Father against people to keep them FOGHORN STAFFWRITER have as many part-time teache.rs FOGHORN STAFFWRTIER Austin Keegan, a San Francisco quiet. Often referred to as "taxi-cab as full-time. It's because we have a Priestly pedophilia in the Ro- Archdiocese priest who had been R: Are you referring specifically teachers" and the "migrant work heavy GEC load,"Yoko Arisaka, as •man Catholic Church has sent transferred to Santa Rosa in the to the Boston church? ers of the information economy," sistant professor of philosophy, Shockwaves throughout the na early 1980s. W: No, this was typical all over many part-time teachers across the said. "I think fewer part-timers tion as dioceses are removing The Foghorn spoke to Univer the country, those strategies were nation make their living working will be needed to cover GEC's, but guilty priests from their posts sity of San Francisco alumnus used in every diocese in the about 40 hours a week and teach then that means some ofthe part- and admitting thousands of past and former Franciscan priest country. ing an average of six classes to make timers will have to be let go." sexual abuse cases that were Bernie Ward, host of God Talk R: Why do you think more San a little over $16,000 per year—a Part-time faculty settled in secret. on KGO 810AM. Recipient of the Francisco Bay Area Catholics salary comparable to that of a fast- According to the California It all began with allegations Scripps Howard Award for Ex haven't spoken out? food worker or a theater attendant Federation of Teachers (CFT), 43 that Boston priest John Geoghan cellence in Journalism for his W: I think because they don't At the University San Francisco, percent of faculty in California molested more than 130 boys in work on a ten-part radio series, want to admit it, they don't want there is growing concern about the who work approximately 36.9 six parishes over 30 years—and "Heaven Help Us," Ward ex to acknowledge what's going on, conditions under which part-time hours per week are classified as the archdiocese failed to stpp him plored the allegations of finan if they acknowledge it, they're go college professors teach. "It's not low-wage part-time status. Also, even after widespread reports of cial and sexual misconduct in ing to have to do something good for teachers to be hired un 80 percent of professors have no sexual abuse. the Catholic archdiocese of San about it and they're going to have der these conditions," assistant employer-funded healthcare cov The Boston scandal created a Francisco in 1995. to deal with their own responsi politics professor Patrick Murphy erage or a subsidized retirement snowball effect leading to the Rahimi: What do you think bilities. I think so many Catho said. Hedescribed the issue as "one program. defrocking of hundreds of priests about the Roman Catholic lics, look at the scandal in Santa of the biggest battles on the Uni "The situation across the in states like Arizona, California, Church's code of silence when Rosa and so forth—they just versity campus." country is not very conducive for Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, it comes to priestly sexual want to almost bury their heads And with restructuring of GEC a career in [part-time] teaching New Hampshire, New Mexico, abuse? in the sand and pretend none of requirements from a three-unit for most people, who wind up Oregon, and Pennsylvania. Ward: It's immoral and egre this is going on. A lot of them system to four-units next year, having to work at two to three dif Most recently, three Jesuit gious that they would cover it don't want to confront the issues there would be less need for part- ferent places," John L McGoldrick, priests have been accused of mo up; that they would pass these that are raised by this; a lot of time faculty and certain GEC University of San Francisco ad lesting students at Boston Col priests around from parish to them don't want to confront the classes, Murphy said, because many junct faculty union leader and ESL lege High School while the parish and in many cases protect contradictions and the hypocrisy. part-time professors teach GEC's. lecturer, said. prestigious Society of Jesus "rou them from prosecution. They just want to go to church Part-time Faculty: Page 2 tinely" transferred the priests R: How do you think the church and go home and think that that's "under a cloud of suspicion," ac is able to transfer priests and it and everything's ok. cording to The Boston Globe. settle cases in secret without R: Do you think that Bay Area 1Dancin g Like a Dove The price of the scandal is in people finding out until now? Catholics may also remain si s^"1"* i X3**v l^^tfK ' -T-'-- the millions. The Boston arch W: They've been able to do it be lent because of the history of diocese has agreed* to pay 86 cause they've always settled these scandal in the San Francisco £ jtftfjjF'S 1. 3| \ people who accused Geoghan of cases with an agreement that church? molestation a total of $15 million these records would be sealed W: When we reported on what ___W s9k K Br wm to $30 million. The archdiocese has and everybody had to have a was going on with O'Shea and already paid an estimated $15 confidentiality agreement so Greenlaugh [in 1995], we were MHE4 \j million to 40 alleged victims of that ifyou got the settlement and attacked by Catholics; we were Geoghan since the mid-1990s. you opened your mouth, you called 'terrorists,' we were called fef* v __\\__w_____f^ •--m\__\__^^__t ______\r^_____\ _______^___\___%%__ The San Francisco Bay Area lost the money. They also con 'disgruntled Catholics.' The bot RWH __________* 4P|H M Tmffnii " Catholic church has its own his vinced many Catholics that it tom line is the Catholics in the tory of priestly sexual abuse scan was going to harm the church if Bay Area would rather shoot the • fi **" fs> m. dal. In 1995, the Roman Catholic all of this got out and a lot of messenger then acknowledge the w__ 9 BBr fUSs Archdiocese of San Francisco Catholics bought into it because message. paid more than $500,000 to two they came out of that fundamen R: What do you think specifi men who had allegedly been mo talist Catholic idea that 'the cally about Catholics and Jesu lested by priests while they were church knows best.' 1 think it was its at the University of San • children. a variety of strategies—when Francisco—what do you think One ofthe priests, Monsignor they couldn't do anything else, about what they have or haven't Patrick O'Shea, has been locked they settled and put in a confi said? up since April 2000, when he was dentiality agreement. When they W: I'm not sure what the reaction : : "-•' - ..:;.' : . : • charged with more than 200 could, they browbeat and con has been by students and so BEXIE TOWLE/FOGHORIs counts of child molestation. vinced Catholics not to say any forth, I mean, I haven't seen any Filipino club Kasamahan practiced for Barrio on March 11. The San Francisco archdiocese thing for the good ofthe church. body at USF taking any more of The dance, Kalatati, "symbolizes a dove," members said. also paid $450,000 to a Cotati When that didn't work, in some a high-profile position on this man who had allegedly been mo cases they even filed lawsuits Priestly Sexual Abuse: Page 5 San Francisco Foghorn NEWS March 14, 2002 Part-time Faculty Short-Changed, Many Say From Front Page At USF 53 percent of teachers are that 72 percent of part-time teach to accommodate the US.

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