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Historic Gift to Benefit Creighton Students Historic Gift to Benefit Creighton Students How to Be a Lent: North African Treasures: Good Consumer The End of the The Season for St. Augustine’s World of Medical News Silver Filling? Transformation Spring 2005 View the magazine online at: SPRING 2005 www.creightonmagazine.org University Magazine Creighton Receives $50 Million Gift . 14 An anonymous donor contributes the largest single gift from a living alumnus in Creighton’s history. Spiritual Reawakening. 16 For the past decade, Creighton’s Institute for Priestly Formation has allowed priests and seminarians worldwide to deepen their own spirituality. Defensive Reading 101: 14 How to Be a Good Consumer of Medical News . 18 Coverage of medical news in the media can often seem confusing or contradictory. Creighton’s Robert Heaney, M.D., gives some tips on how to be a more informed consumer of medical news. Lent: The Season for Transformation. 22 For Christians, Lent can be more than just a season of “giving things up.” It can offer the faithful a chance to reform their lives. The End of the Silver Filling?. 28 A new array of dental materials is offering patients more options than ever. Is there still a 22 place for the old, reliable silver filling? North African Treasures: St. Augustine’s World . 34 Some 25 years ago, Creighton’s Michael Flecky, S.J., traveled in the footsteps of St. Augustine, photographing ancient ruins in northern Africa. Today, these images represent a treasure trove for Western scholars. 28 Letters to the Editor . 4 On The Cover University News . 6 Pictured are Creighton students (front, from left) Jamie Wewel, Princella Development News . 40 Parker, Aisha Lomax; (middle) Brandon Taylor, Jocelyn Frey, Joe Janus, Jon Alumni News. 42 Aquino; and (back) Tyrone Galbreath. 34 The Last Word . 55 Photo by Mike Kleveter. CONTACT US: Editor — Rick Davis, (402) 280-1785, [email protected] • Associate Editor — Sheila Swanson, (402) 280-2069, [email protected] View the magazine online at: www.creightonmagazine.org. Message from the University President Securing Our Financial Future This past December, we announced a historic gift to Creighton group of University — a $50 million contribution from a graduate who universities, many wishes to remain anonymous. It’s the largest gift from a living of them much larger alumnus in the school’s 126-year history. than Creighton, to This is truly a transformational gift, one that will allow us to receive that amount vigorously pursue our emerging national leadership among faith- of support. based universities. The donor’s hope is that this gift will encourage Our financial stability others to give. Indeed, we believe it will. also is enhanced through Over the past year, I have elaborated on four of the five strategic consistent student enrollment. objectives outlined in Project 125, our strategic plan. In this column, Our numbers in this area are I will address our fifth objective: Enhancing the overall financial encouraging, too. This past fall, we stability for Creighton University and its schools and colleges. welcomed our second largest freshman class First and foremost, our University is in excellent fiscal health. ever, with 970 students. Our total enrollment this fall hit a record of Your gifts to the University allow Creighton to enhance its 6,723 students. Our new freshmen are bright and energetic, coming reputation as a national leader in teaching and research. to Creighton with an average ACT score of 25.8. They also are more In the last fiscal year, our endowment climbed to a record diverse, with 17 percent being ethnic minorities. We would like to $216 million. That was aided by a healthy 17.4 percent return on see that rise to 21 percent. Attracting an ethnically diverse student our endowment investments. A strong endowment is critical to the population not only enriches the educational experience, but it takes University. It provides us with a permanent source of funds that into account our nation’s changing demographics. By 2015, it’s make the University less reliant upon tuition and clinic income. estimated that 64 percent of America’s student population will be These funds provide for student scholarships, faculty positions, students of color. This requires that we reach out to diverse groups programs, libraries, and faculty and staff development. of students more than ever. It’s a challenge we welcome. We have inaugurated four new endowed chairs over the past Finally, our externally funded research was up $5 million in 2004, four years, including the new Charles F. and Mary C. Heider a 16 percent increase over 2003. These funds are a testament to the Endowed Chair in Cancer Research in November. We now have a important research being conducted by our excellent faculty. total of 24 endowed chairs at Creighton. We will inaugurate another While our financial news is good, we must not rest on this soon, with the McGrath North Mullin & Kratz Endowed Chair in plateau. We must continue to build the University endowment for Business Law. Both the donor and recipient of an endowed chair financial aid, program support and facility maintenance. We must become part of the legacy of Creighton University. Chair holders are increase external funding, both public and private. We must ensure scholars whose talents will leave an indelible mark on their fields, that financial resources are appropriately aligned with our their students and their colleagues. Those who choose to endow a University priorities. We must increase student enrollment and Chair know their names will be linked to quality education and student retention rates. And we must maintain a quality work force, research for generations to come. with a goal of becoming “an employer of choice in the Omaha Along with endowment, our alumni and friends continue to give community.” generously to our Annual Fund. As the single largest source of Thanks to your support, we move forward confident in the unrestricted gifts to the University and its schools and colleges, the University’s promising future. Annual Fund is the foundation of the University’s fundraising programs. Last year, we raised a record $4.6 million in support of our Annual Fund, a 34 percent increase over the previous year. More than $1 million of that was realized through our annual John P. Schlegel, S.J. Phonathon. Again, that was a record and put us among a select University Magazine due to complex geopolitics, but 9/11 pushed the need to change the geopolitics of the Middle East, including Saddam’s removal, to enhance the long-term security of U.S. allies, Publisher: Creighton University; Rev. John P. Schlegel, trading partners and neighboring countries. S.J., President; Lisa Calvert, Vice President for University The British efforts in the Middle East were in Relations. Creighton University Magazine staff: Kim Manning, Assistant Vice President for Marketing and the interest of colonialism; they wanted to Public Relations; Rick Davis, Editor; Sheila Swanson, incorporate Iraq into the British Empire, but Coffee With The Place of Research Iraq DéJà Vu Cheer Without Fear Esperanza in Poetry Associate Editor; Pamela A. Vaughn, Features Editor. Winter 2004 the United States objected. Editorial Advisers: Cam Enarson, M.D., M.B.A.; Finally, democratic Russia, Christine Wiseman, J.D.; Greg Johnson; Diane Dougherty; Rev. Donald A. Doll, S.J.; Tamara Buffalohead-McGill; democratic Netherlands, democratic and Jayne Schram. Turkey, democratic Greece, democratic Israel, democratic Indonesia, democratic Creighton University Magazine (USPS728-070) is published quarterly in February, May, August and Germany, democratic India and the November by Creighton University, 2500 California Letters democratic Philippines have all been Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178-0001. Periodicals postage attacked by Islamic fundamentalists paid at Omaha, Nebraska, and additional entry points. to inspired by Arab extremists and are Address all mail to Public Relations and Information, asking why there are no Arab Omaha, NE 68178. Postmaster: Send change of address the Editor to Creighton University Magazine, P.O. Box 3266, democracies. Democratic Poland, Omaha, NE 68103-0078. democratic South Korea and democratic Japan, which are strongly allied For more enrollment information, contact the Undergraduate Admissions Office at 1-800-282-5835, with the United States, are asking the same [email protected]. question. Iraqis don’t enjoy military Stark Differences in Iraq occupation, but they would prefer it to the To make a gift to the University, contact the In response to Dr. Calvert’s article “Iraq Development Office at 1-800-334-8794. savages who cut the heads off of innocent Déjà Vu”: While Iraqi history does have areas people. They also know if they are to achieve For the latest on alumni gatherings, contact the Alumni of repetition, such repetition should not be the dream of democracy, the United States is Relations Office at 1-800-CU-ALUMS (800-282-5867) or viewed as sameness. There are stark contrasts check online at www.creighton.edu/alumni. their best friend in that effort. However, if between what Britain did with the fall of the you take a look at the history of the Send letters to the editor to Rick Davis at Ottoman Empire during and after World War democratic countries previously listed, you [email protected]; fax, (402) 280-2549; I, and what the United States is trying to Creighton University, Office of Public Relations, know the fight for democracy and its 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178. accomplish in Iraq today. preservation is not an easy task. To assume First, at least two-thirds of Iraq was Iraqis cannot run a democracy or that any Update your mailing address or send alumni news liberated by the United States more than 10 (births, weddings, promotions, etc.) electronically through Iraqi democracy established is doomed to fail www.creighton.edu/alumni, call 1-800-334-8794 or years ago, shortly after the United States is simply defeatism, if not blatant racism.
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