Xavier Names New Rector RHA President Resigns at Last Week's

SanF FranciscoO GHORN UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO VOLUME 89, NUMBER 17 THURSDAY, MARCH 11,1993 RHA President resigns at last week's Senate meeting Foghorn Staff Report didn't know that she couldn't sit on the Senate as a non-student and he blamed Residence Hall Association President the "misunderstanding" on "Constitu Rebecca Cardinal resigned from her post tional overlap" which he hopes will be on the ASUSF Senate after the March 2 cleared up in Constitutional revisions. ASUSF Senate meeting. The ASUSF Constitution states that in The Foghorn has learned that Cardi order to be a member of ASUSF, stu nal is not, and has not ever been, a dents must be "any undergraduate stu student at USF. dent registered and enrolled in the Col Cardinal, a student at the Academy of lege of Arts and Sciences, McLaren Art, has only been living at USF, there School of Business, and the School of fore she is able to retain her position as Nursing in compliance with the rules and RHA President. She is not a Co-op stu policies of the University of San Fran dent, as believed, a status needed in cisco" and they must "pay the mandatory order to sit on the Senate. Associated Student fee(s)." According to Gandhi Soundararajan, As a non-student, Cardinal has never ASUSF President, he was told about paid the mandatory ASUSF fee. Cardinal's status one week ago by Bill Cardinal, just like all ASUSF Sena Clark, Senate advisor and director of tors, took an oath of office last May Student Leadership and Outreach Ser swearing to "uphold and defend the Con vices. stitution of ASUSF and its Bylaws." When Clark was contacted, he stated "I am very sorry that this had to hap that he didn't know the reasons for pen," Alyson Carr, ASUSF vice presi- Cardinal's resignation. dentsaid. "Unfortunately the Senate must Cardinal was contacted, but had no face issues that affect the entire under comment. graduate student population, so students "It is a normal thing that the RHA are best served by other students whom President sits on Senate, so it was a given have shared these experiences." that she should be a member of the Sen Phelan resident Siobhan Ippolito, a ate," Soundararajan said. junior psychology major iscurrently rep According to Soundararajan, Cardinal resenting RHA on the ASUSF Senate. 24 hour Mac Inside: lab... finally Features The Hilltop Legacy lives Josephine Amato PI Kappa Phi fraternity raised over $500 with their P. U.S.H. Foghorn Staff Writer on... (page 5) scaffold marathon In Harney Plaza, March 3 through 5 A 24 hour Macintosh computer labo Forum ratory is expected to open by the end of the current week on the University Cen Messages that try to Xavier names new Rector ter third floor. define the role of the ASUSF President Gandhi woman (page 9) Bradley Haas ences who went to Oxford, so we know Soundararajan said Tuesday at the Forum Editor we'll have lots of fog," Huerta said. ASUSF Senate meeting that the fiber One of Stackpoole's chores will be to optics cable has been connected for se Entertainment Fr. Edward Stackpoole, S.J., has been follow Fr. McCormick's plan for re curity reasons. Features on the College named the new rector of Xavier Hall. cruitment of new Jesuits to Xavier Hall. Prior to this computer lab addition, he Player's "Cabaret" Fr. Stackpoole will take over the post As rector, Fr. Stackpoole's duties will said student enrollment has increased from Fr. Thomas McCormick S.J. on include management of the finances and by 16 percent and the amount of comput (pages 13-14) July 31. The term of rector lasts six years, investments of the Jesuit community, ers stayed the same. and Stackpoole is looking forward to the and overseeing St. Ignatius church and The University already has a 24 hour ASUSF challengeof managing the Jesuit's home. Xavier Hall itself. IBM laboratory located in Harney 204. Election Preview "I don't want to see many changes," "I am scheduled for sabbatical next By adding the Macintosh lab it will in says Fr. Stackpoole. "My goal is to make year, so I'll have a long time to adjust to crease computer availability on campus. It's never too early to life for the Jesuits who work at USF as the new duties," Stackpoole said. "We Soundararajan added that "Fr. Clark, think about voting peaceful and convenient as possible. I will all have a lot of meetings." (USF Provost) has been a big support to also want to make Xavier Hall a wel -Fr. Stackpoole has been a teacher for push to keep the lab open twenty-four (pages 10-11) come home for those who have worked the USFEnglish departmentfor 31 years. hours." and are now retired." He has held the Chair of the English Alyson Carr, ASUSF vice-president Sports • Fr. Alberto Huerta, S.J., sees the true department twice and served as Dean of said the establishment of the 24 hour Turn out the lights, the benefits of Stackpoole's appointment. the College of Arts and Sciences from computer lab was one of Senate's goals "We now have a rector who went to 1975 to 1980. His experience as a fac- this year. party's over (page 16) Oxford, a university president who went "We are glad it has been accom to Oxford, and a dean of Arts and Sci Please see Stackpoole, page 3 plished," Carr added. Eew s SELECTED SYNOPS STUDENT NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD Good Grades = Lower Rent bag out of a locker at the University of Wis consin at Eau Claire, she was attacked by two An owner of an apartment development near men. the University of Arizona is offering students a The university responded by having a teach- deal: a break on rent in exchange for good in. Students passed out hundreds of buttons grades. that said "Respect Differences." Residents of the Country Gardens develop But Ms. Smith, who is now a junior, was UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO ment in Tucson who are full-time students at the neither Eau Claire' s first victim of gay bashing university receive rent deductions on a sliding in 1992, nor the last. scale based on their previous semester's grades. A survey of 213,000 incoming freshman Students with a B average get a 2 percent last fall by the Higher Education Research break, while students with straight A's get a 10 Institute at the University of California at Los The College of Arts and Sciences percent markdown. Angeles found that about 38 percent of all The owner hatched the idea two years ago. His students surveyed, and 49 percent ofthe men, invites graduating seniors goal was to get tenants who were "high achiev said they believed there should be laws prohib ers," partly because he has two college age sons iting homosexuality. to apply and compete living in the complex. Seniors generally are more accepting than " I wanted an environment conducive to their freshmen, the UCLA researchers found. Even so, a substantial block of seniors also say for the honor of serving as doing well," says Roger A. Oster, "rather than one that was a distraction." homosexuality is wrong. As a further law to the studious, he installed a In a follow-up study on 1987 freshmen, the featured student speaker at the computer center, linked by a modem to the "The American College Student, 1991," the university system. Roughly two-thirds ofthe 76 UCLA researchers reported that in 1987, 60 College Commencement Exercises units at Country Gardens are rented by students percent of the male freshmen said there should now, several times more than in the days before be laws prohibiting homosexuality. Friday, May 21,1993 the policy. Four years later, only 3 3 percent of them still The rent breaks were not pure altruism. Hard supported such laws. Most students keep their views on homo at two o'clock p.m. working students mean fewer rowdy parties, less destruction of property, and a generally quieter sexuality to themselves. atmosphere. Students say the rent policy sometimes pro Clinton receives 21,000 letters vides them with a much-needed kick in the pants. "Toward the end of finals last semester, I was Bill Clinton can't keep up with his mail. The pushing for that extra A to get the break," says White House is answering 3,500 letters a day Lori Dolginoff, a senior majoring in the media for the President, but he's receiving a daily arts. "I'm not going to graduate school, so an record of 21,000. extra A wouldn't make a difference otherwise." Clinton ordered aides to do something about Please make application by submitting the problem after he spotted the backlog that your proposed speech outline Openly gay students face was piling up on long tables in the hallway at on or before April 2 to: the Old Executive Office Building. harassment, attacks A task force of "computer geeks" is looking Office ofthe Dean into ways to modernize the operation. Ronald Backlash seen developing even as institutions Reagan, the previous record holder, received Harney Science Center, Rm. 240 try to improve climate for homosexuals University of San Francisco Campus almost 800,000 letters in his first month in Libby Smith knows what it is like to be a office; Clinton received 1.2 million. victim of gay bashing. First, there were the "There is a sense that the president is a For more information, call 666-6113 harassing telephone calls to her home.

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