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SC0 VOL. 103 ISSUE 13 F0GHORNUSFCA.EDU .FEBRUARY 8,2007 Former Peruvian Construction Continues President Returns Kalmanovitz Hall' is expected to be to USF completed by the • Alejandro Toledo's Summer of 2008 speech advocated so KATE ELSTON StaffWriter cial democracy, made t's noisy, it's dirty, it seemingly goes links between poverty on forever. It has displaced classrooms Iand offices and has taken the field and economic growth next to St. Ignatius church. The construc tion of Kalmanovitz HaU annoys and rais LAURA PLANTHOLT es eyebrows among some USF students. StaffWriter Devon Davey, a sophomore internation al studies major, said, although the result ormer president of Peru, Alejandro HUNTER PATTERSON/FOGHORN of the construction wiU make the campus Toledo, returned to his alma mater, Former President of Peru Alejandro Toledo look "nicer," the "annoying" construction the University of San Francisco on F chats with audience members. nearly mutes her professor's speech in her Wednesday, Jan. 31. Toledo, who received class next door in CoweU HaU. Davey said his bachelors degree in economics from she also misses Welch field, the grassy America, and the world. He argued that USF in 1971, focused his speech on the area next to St. Ignatius church which the people Uving in an impoverished state are relationship between poverty, inequality, construction has temporarily eliminated. and the future of democracy, particularly less likely to trust the concept of a democ Courtney Ferry, -a sophomore archi in Latin America. In addition to giv racy, noting that 54% of Latin Americans tecture major said she's concerned the ing the speech, Toledo was honored by surveyed opined that they would actu historical Campion buUding, the old USF President Rev. Stephen A. Privett aUy prefer a totalitarian government to a est one on campus, built in 1927, "wiU S.J.with a medal for his many accom democratic one. Toledo shared that there look totaUy different when it's done." plishments and humanitarian works. The are 13 miUion Peruvians Uving in pov "It's important to preserve histori event, hosted by the USF Center for the erty right now. To improve this situation, cal features on a building," Ferry said. Pacific Rim, attracted a large crowd of Toledo worked to improve the country's But Michael London, assistant vice students, faculty, alumni, and other mem economic situation during his presidency, president of facilities management, said bers of the community eager to hear the but also focused on social programs to aid his construction team is going lengths former president speak, and was foUowed famiUes with health care and education. "upgrading and preserving" USF's future by a reception in the Thacher GaUery. While president, Toledo helped Peru's home for the humanities. On a tour ofthe Toledo's speech discussed current social Continued on Page 3 current state of the buUding, he spoke on and economic issues that face Peru, Latin the team's efforts, from preserving Cam pion HaU's historical feel, to modernizing HUNTER PATTERSON/FOGHORN the entrance, to even taking care of Welch Renovations at the new Kalmanovitz Hall are in full swing this week as the building is gutted and Symposium on Sacramen field whUe they're working on top of it. parts ofthe old structure are demolished. "We're proud of the little details we've done to make things right," London said. Inside the construction site, it's hard to with 14 classrooms and new laboratories. "Historical things on the out tal Light Features Scholars The construction team, which com side are going be restored and wiU teU where classrooms and offices used to be in Campion HaU. The elevators are gone. prises 30 to 40 people, has completed, stay," he said, like the words "Scien^ Some waUs are gone, but some that still among other tasks, ripping up the carpet tia and Philosphia" on the outside. from across the Nation stand have old bulletin boards with old stu and strengthening and adding founda "We've also gone to great pains to SYDNEY STOKER natives and Europeans. He talked about dent flyers, and there are even some student tion, London said.They now are instaUing make sure the windows maintain the same StaffWriter the similarities between Catholicism and etchings, like a giant heart drawn on a waU the typical bars to prevent lateral move look as the older windows," London said. native rituals in the 16th century including near the old GiU Theatre. Sand, concrete, ments in an earthquake and are injecting However, he noted that the church-fac he Symposium on Sacramental public confession, Holy Communion, and noisy machines, and lots of obscure con concrete into the waUs—the job that's ing windows, built in 1926, are just not as Light that took place on Saturday, baptism. He then went on to discuss the struction tools lay on the floor ofthe buUd causing aU that noise. Along with those functional as a modern window. So they TFeb. 3 was a scholarly conference architectural change that took place in Lat ing that wiU soon be Kalmanovitz HaU. jobs, London said the team is also "try plan to preserve them, "to keep' with the on themes of artistic and reUgious encul- in America as Aztec temples were recycled According to the USF website, the new ing to, in a tasteful way, recognize the his character of the building" while also mod- turation. It discussed the history of Latin and used to create Cathedrals and Catho- building wiU be "solely an academic center" torical elements of the building as weU." Continued on Page 2 American art with the religious conver Uc Churches. When more , permanent sion in Latin America in the 16th and chapels were built with great courtyards 17th centuries. The symposium honored for gathering and half-domes for theater, the coUection of Antoine Roig Ferre that this introduced another bridge between is on display to the public in the Thacher Aztecs and CathoUcs-the use of theater to GaUery. Lectures on art history in Latin recreate sacred myths. Because of prayer America and the theological influence on books with images instead of writing, na State of the Union Forum Addresses U.S. Foreign Policy art were presented by four scholars—in tives absorbed Christianity. By the end HUNTER PATTERSON zalez from the department of Asian cluding USF's own Rev. Thomas Lucas, of the 16th century the "society of Jesus" StaffWriter and PhUippine studies, Heather Hoag S.J., Associate Professor of Visual Arts. was in Mexico and Latin America. Lara from the department of African stud Other key speakers were Jaime Lara, Pro said, "It was indeed a sacramental light." This past Thursday, a panel of USF pro ies and Julio Moreno of the depart fessors and members of the larger USF fessor of Christian Art and Architecture at Gauvin Bailey spoke about the Jesuit ment of Latin American studies. Each community met for an open discussion of Yale Divinity School, Gauvin Alexander Missions and the arts in colonial Latin professor spent several minutes out the President George W. Bush's State of Bailey from Boston CoUege, and Marcus America. He talked about three areas lining how President Bush's address the Union Address delivered on Jan. 23. Burke of The Hispanic Society of Ameri where art is a visual representation: the involved their specific geographic re In his seventh such address since tak ca. Lucas began the afternoon by talking Jesuit contribution to Mestizo style, the gion of expertise before opening up the ing-office, President Bush outUned many about the significance of Lady Guadalupe Paraguay reductions, and Chilean archi floor to comments from an audience initiatives including an overhaul of the and the Monstrance in Latin America. tecture. First he talked about the south comprised mostly of USF students. medical insurance system, increase in stra With the colonization of Latin America, ern Peruvian flora and fauna. He asked Moreno, an associate professor ofhis tegic oU reserves, and a continued commit the natives incorporated the reUgious style whether Latin American art was a mix of tory and program coordinator for Latin ment to security and anti terrorism efforts. of the Catholic Spanish colonists. Lucas native and Europeans or just a new type American studies at USF, touched on While President Bush spent much of his said, "Adaptation to conquering Gods (the of European. The Guardanians, he said, the frustration Latin Americans have nearly one hour long speech on domestic Spanish) was rule, not exception." He also were "converting Christianity into some experienced over a democratic system issues, he also touched on the broader state discussed the Monstrance, examples of solar thing that worked for them." Third, he that has largely failed to provide them of the world and U.S. relations overseas. disk form symbolizing the worship of sol. talked about the plain barn-like archi with jobs or an acceptable standard of Next Lara talked about art and the early tectural churches in southern Chile with It was these international issues that living. He suggested that the more the church in sixteenth-century Mexico. Al their lavishly decorated interior. The Chil the USF faculty panel focused on at United States peruses its own best inter though there are no 16th century pieces ean missions represent the Germanic style their forum, State of the Union: Implica ests and ignores the interests of the de HUNTER PATTERSON/FOGHORN of artwork in the exhibit it is important to architecture. He concluded by answering tions for the State of the World hosted veloping world the more we run the risk understand early art in Latin America as it his earlier question, saying that Jesuit and in the Maraschi Room of Fromm HaU.