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Vol. 69, No. 3 Wednesday October 13,1999 Free INSIDE New Chapel, Ministry Center SXU reinforces Catholic identity with ground breaking lews Media at SXU New Director takes WXA Vand Xavierite into the next millenium Photo Courtesy of University Advancement The McDonough Chapel and Mercy Ministrx Center is anticipated to open during the fall oj'2000 and will be located on the southeast quadrant of campus. By Rosemary Mazurowski ceremony. Both the McDonoughs Xavierite Editor and the Sisters of Mercy were hon "The McDonough Chapel and Mercy ored at the beginning of the Construction begins again at Ministry Center will provide a visible groundbreaking ceremony for their Saint Xavier University as ground contributions. was broken for the new sign of our Catholic identity, a place The McDonough Chapel and McDonough Chapel and Mercy Mercy Ministry Center will be lo Ministry Center, Tuesday, Octo for our community to worship..." cated on the southeast quadrant of ber 12. the campus. Included in the area The McDonough Chapel will will be an open plaza with benches, offer space for over 200 worship The adjacent Mercy Minis The Mercy Ministry Center trees and foliage. pers at masses, prayer services and try Center will provide office and was financed by the Sisters of 'The McDonough Chapel Looking for a religious celebrations. The meeting space for SXU Campus Mercy. Sister Joy Clough, R.S.M., and Mercy Ministry Center will Scare? McDonough Chapel was financed Ministry, Pastoral Ministry Insti president of the Sisters of Mercy, by James and Jacque McDonough. tute and Mercy Care programs. Chicago region, was on hand at the See CENTER page 9 Haunted Trails provides lots of Halloween fun. Yanikoski celebrates anniversary By Jennifer Koziel vide leadership to the whole Uni way and has overcome many of the Contributor versity and to secure resources nec challenges he was faced with in the essary so that every other person summer of 1994. Dr. Richard Yanikoski will can be successful in their work." As of this fall, the Univer mark his fifth anniversary as Presi About 50% of his time is sity developed an honors program. dent of Saint Xavier University by dedicated to fund raising. He Also the South Campus was addressing the University commu searches for major donations to opened in Tinley Park where the nity October 14. The speech will help give us the new buildings and enrollment exceeded the original be delivered at 7:30 p.m. in additions we enjoy today and in the predictions. McGuire Hall. future. Another responsibility Saint Xavier was also given When Dr. Yanikoski was in would be to provide overall direc a donation of 10 acres of land in vited to become President of SXU tion to SXU for continuous im Orland Park for its future use. On Sports at SXU in the summer of 1994, he was told provement. the main campus the Andrew Con Men's soccer shows by the Board of Trustees of the Yanikoski works closely ference Center was added in 1995. current situation of the University. with the vice president and deans The Convocation and Athletic Cen promise for the rest of They told him that the University the season. of the departments and also the ter will open in November and the had strong academics, loyal stu budget and strategic committee McDonough Chapel and Mercy dents, weak finances, inadequate which include faculty and staff. Ministry Center will open some SXU President Richard Yanikoski facilities, no endowment and that Yanikoski works with the Board of time next year. the overall attitude needed to be for the further development which Trustees as well. The endowment fund was lifted because people were con include new buildings, enrollment He also has administrative less than $3 million when he started Contact Us... cerned for the future. strategies, technology and fund responsibilities to fulfill. He has to and now it is at $7 million. The (773) 298-3380 Yanikoski has many respon raising. Yanikoski states, "We con co-sign every contract, all new allocation of money for student aid tinue to refine this plan but we are Or, visit us in the Radio sibilities and obligations to fulfill. employment positions and sits on a has doubled. Station bldg., room 101 Yanikoski comments, "My two dozen committees. Right now the University has principle responsibilities are to pro Yanikoski has come a long a strong although developing plan See PRESIDENT page 9 Page 2 Xavierite Wednesday, October 13,1999 Individuality vs. Differences Xavierite Learn to love the unique person inside you Mailbox certain extent, we are all the same is a need for bonding at this age, but on the inside. God made us all how often do kids do something beautiful and unique. If our Cre they don't like or hate just to fit in? ator sees us all the same, why is it Society needs to start pushing for that we can't follow suit and "love individuality and not so much be I wanted to comment on your article entitled "Reconsider thy neighbor?" ing like everyone else. Alcohol Policy" from your last issue. I agree with the idea that the In my experience, children no-alcohol limit might be creating problems. However, I also feel Whatever happened to learn at a young age to be dis "marching to a different drummer?" that college students should be more mature when they choose to criminating against other children Individuality isn't the worst thing drink. I do not feel that it is SXU's fault that some students cannot By Kelley A. Harris who don't exactly fit the social in the world. Some people in fact limit or control themselves. norm. These can include children feed on being different. Try to imag Maybe if students could handle the alcohol in a mature Xavierite Editor who are shy or smart or even a ine a world where everyone was manner, the school would lighten up. Until then, I'm all for the All men are created equal. little slow to learn. Kids tend to the same. Wouldn't that be boring? policy as it stands. How true is this in American soci Differences are what make us in ety at the end of the 20th Century? teresting. Can't we learn from When the Declaration of Indepen someone who is different from us? dence was written, the authors failed "To be People from other cultures to recognize women, Native Ameri can teach us their language, share cans and immigrants. Why does it their religious beliefs, delicious In regards to your last editorial board, I would like to voice seem that we are so intolerant of different cuisine, and political beliefs. Those my opinion. As an older dorm student, I can understand the need to those who are different from us? y with disabilities can help us to learn vent stress and high strung emotions. The University has a dry The pilgrims who came to doesn t mean patience. Artists and musicians help campus policy not to steal fun but to ensure the safety of the this country regarded the Native us see the world in an abstract or students. True, security and other campus officials can only control Americans as savages. Is it because you are weak fun manner. In fact, most of our what the students do while they are in the immediate vicinity of the their way of life included making Hollywood success stories were University. use of the land and all its riches? So 11 teased and ridiculed as children. If a student chooses to get drunk off campus, that is up to the what if they didn't eat in a sophis or weird. Now they are making a successful vendor who is selling the alcohol. But when they come back to the ticated manner and their clothes living being entertainers. Different dorms and cause a huge disturbance and do things that are detri were all made from animal skins? form cliques at a young age based isn't always wrong. mental to their safety and others as well, this becomes a school The English felt that they had a on similarities and common inter To be different doesn't mean problem. I have observed the R.A.'s on campus who seem to take duty to change the Native Ameri ests. Thus, we find the "in crowd." you are weak or weird. Even if you the attitude that if they are not disturbed or if no one comes to them cans. Often in this circle of children, are weird, so what? People who with a direct complaint, then nothing is done. Their attempts led to hun they have no problem teasing and have the courage to break away I am saying that the school needs to start cracking down on dreds of deaths and eventually the embarrassing anyone who doesn't from the norm and find their hearts these people who not only break the policy but directly abuse it by nearextinction of the Native Ameri fit in with them. A problem that in individuality should be ap becoming intoxicated on campus. If the punishment for the posses cans. I don't think this is what God faces adolescents is that concept plauded. If that is how they find sion of alcohol were more severe and enforced, then maybe we had in mind. of "doing what everybody else is their own niche in the world, then I wouldn't have such a problem. The Lord made us all human doing." Why is it so taboo to be an give them full credit.