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Creighton welcomed one of its largest, most ethnically diverse post for 19 years, and most academically gifted freshman classes to campus this fall. from 1981 to 2000. Our total enrollment now stands at a record 6,723 students. Fr. Morrison held a These students come to our campus at a time of exciting and special affinity for historic change. One of our goals, as outlined in our Project 125 Creighton’s students strategic plan, is to provide our students with a dynamic campus and their success. In his environment in which to live and learn. In this column, we will farewell column in this focus on that priority. magazine he wrote, “My As part of our campus master plan, we look to create at greatest joy in the last 19 years Creighton a national model of an urban campus in a garden-like has been the students. They are setting. We are well on our way. bright, they are enthusiastic, they are On Sept. 2 — the University’s 126th birthday — we dedicated hard-working.” Davis Square, our new Victorian-style junior/senior town homes It is fitting that we name our new soccer stadium in Fr. with two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments housing Morrison’s honor, as this has become a gathering place where 258 students. students, alumni and the greater Omaha community can come Davis Square is a cornerstone of the dynamic east campus together for a variety functions — from cheering on Creighton’s neighborhood we are creating for Creighton students. Its three women’s and men’s soccer teams to enjoying an outdoor concert buildings encompass a square block just east of the ball fields. These performed by the Omaha Symphony. modern town homes will be joined by two additional town squares We owe a debt of gratitude to Walter and Suzanne Scott for and a student service center in the not too distant future. making this stadium — one of the premier soccer facilities in the Davis Square represents more than bricks and mortar. It is part of United States — a reality. Morrison Stadium — with Omaha’s our mission to provide our students with the finest living and downtown skyline providing a stunning backdrop — is an integral learning experience. element in our efforts to provide students with additional social and The additional space allows us to bring our upperclassmen back recreational opportunities. to the heart of campus where they can provide helpful guidance, Finally, we opened our beautiful new campus mall to pedestrian leadership and support for our new students. Having them here on traffic this fall. The mall is a blend of the old with the new. While we campus keeps them engaged and enables them to be an invaluable replaced the old bricks, we kept the brick theme. The cornerstone of resource. the mall is a sculpture of St. Ignatius, founder of the Jesuits, created Davis Square, named for Omaha pioneer Thomas Davis, reflects by our own fine arts professor Littleton Alston. the tremendous generosity of the Davis and Lauritzen families and Words alone cannot do the mall justice. You will find photos of it First National Bank of Omaha, whose $3.5 million gift is furthering inside this issue, or we welcome you to visit our ever-changing Creighton’s eastward campus expansion. campus. We trust that as you stroll our grounds, from east to west, But our growing campus does not end there. On Oct. 15, we you will find a dynamic environment taking shape, one that both dedicated the new Michael G. Morrison, S.J. Stadium, named for engages and welcomes students and visitors. my predecessor the Rev. Michael G. Morrison, S.J. Fr. Morrison was Please enjoy this issue of Creighton University Magazine, and may the longest-serving president in Creighton’s history, holding the God bless you and yours.

John P. Schlegel, S.J. Winner of a 2004 CASE Gold Medal Award for General Excellence Absent in Diversity It’s encouraging to read the president’s message in the Fall 2004 Creighton Magazine,

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CU Again Ranks No. 1 students is one of the strongest in our 126- year history. Creighton fundraising is CUMC Receives For the second consecutive year, strong, thanks to many supportive alumni Creighton University is listed No. 1 in the and donors. Our community outreach Over $1.8 Million U.S. News & World Report magazine efforts have received national recognition, rankings of Midwest comprehensive and Creighton is building for the future for Health universities. It is the seventh time in nine with the largest campus expansion in the Careers Program years Creighton has been No. 1, and the University’s history,” 18th straight year Creighton University has said Fr. Schlegel. Creighton University Medical been ranked at or near the top of U.S. News Creighton was Center will receive $1,875,000 over & World Report magazine’s “America’s Best ranked in the U.S. News three years from the U.S. Department Colleges” edition. category “Universities- of Health and Human Services (HHS) Also for the second consecutive year, Master’s,” which to increase Creighton’s capacity to Creighton is listed among just 36 consists of schools that train students in public health universities nationally for its outstanding provide a full range of research. Creighton will receive undergraduate research opportunities. And undergraduate and $625,000 for each of the three years to U.S. News lists Creighton as a “best value,” master’s-level programs — and, in address health disparities among one of the schools where students get the Creighton’s case, doctoral programs. The medically underserved populations in best return on their tuition investment. criteria are academic reputation, graduation Nebraska and Iowa. “The No. 1 ranking reflects Creighton’s and retention rates, faculty resources, In making the announcement in mission to provide an exceptional learning student selectivity, financial resources and October, U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel, and living environment that benefits alumni giving. The category includes 572 R-Neb., said, “Creighton is a notable students. It also underscores Creighton’s schools. university that will prepare its strong academic reputation due to our Creighton also is cited as outstanding by students to conduct important outstanding faculty members,” said other publications, including Money, research and deliver health care Creighton President the Rev. John P. Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and Peterson’s services to underserved populations.” Schlegel, S.J. Best 311 Colleges. Princeton Review Inc. With this funding, Creighton “The rankings also support the fact that recently ranked Creighton among the University will establish a Creighton is excelling in many areas: This nation’s top 357 colleges and universities. Community-Oriented Primary Care fall we enrolled one of our largest classes There are nearly 4,000 colleges and (COPC) Public Health Research ever, and the academic profile of entering universities nationwide. Endowment to increase student involvement in public health research, strengthen mentoring and tutoring Ameritrade CEO Moglia Lynch in 1984; in 1988 he was named services and increase the number of Merrill Lynch’s No. 1 producer in medical students interested in Joins Creighton’s Board the world. conducting health disparity research. Joseph H. Moglia, chief executive Prior to entering the financial services Cam E. Enarson, M.D., dean of the officer of Ameritrade Holding industry, Moglia was the defensive School of Medicine and vice president Corporation, has been named to coordinator for Dartmouth College’s for Health Sciences at Creighton Creighton football team, which had the No. 1 University Medical Center, is the University’s defense in the Ivy League. He authored a principal investigator for the COPC Board of book on football and wrote several program. Directors. articles that were published in national In 2003, Creighton’s School of Moglia has coaching journals. In football, he set Medicine was designated a Center of been chief national records and has won several Excellence (COE) by the U.S. executive officer awards, including being named to the Department of Health and Human of Ameritrade Sports Hall of Fame at Archmere Services, Health Resources and since 2001. Prior Academy in Claymont, Del., where he Services Administration. The long- to that, he served taught and coached from 1971-74. term goals of the COE program Moglia with Merrill Moglia serves on the board of address bridging the gap in local and Lynch in several directors of AXA Financial, Inc. and is national disparities in health care and executive management positions on the board of trustees of the Boy health care delivery. The COPC is an including senior vice president and head Scouts of America Mid-America expansion of the COE program. of the Investment Performance and Council, STRATCOM Consultation Product Group for Merrill’s Private Committee and the Omaha Chamber of Client Division. Moglia joined Merrill Commerce.

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One ‘Hip‘ Square “It’s Hip to Be Square!” So proclaimed the Creightonian student newspaper in a clever headline announcing the opening of Creighton’s newest student housing — Davis Square. “When I walked into our room for the first time,” said Davis Square resident Trenton Pruden, a senior from O’Neill, Neb., “I started smiling and saying lots of oohs and ahs.” Davis Square is the first student housing at Creighton designed specifically for upperclassmen. Located on the eastern edge of campus, at 21st and Webster streets, Davis Square’s three Victorian-style town homes feature 79 two-, three- and four-bedroom furnished apartments. Juniors and seniors entered a lottery last spring to live in the new facility. There are 258 students living at Davis Square. “And we had twice that many who requested to live here,” said John Cernech, Creighton’s vice president for Student Services. The residential community is part of Creighton’s campus master plan, which was announced in September 2003 during the University’s 125th birthday celebration. Davis Square’s amenities include a spacious, gated courtyard and a diner, featuring short-order comfort food. “Davis Square is a wonderful environment in which to live, learn, play and interact with each other,” said Robert McLean, president of Creighton’s Inter Residence Hall Government. “Living here keeps us connected to Creighton.” Davis Square is named in honor of the Davis and Lauritzen families, who have Photos clockwise from top — Davis Square at been integral to the development of night; a view from above in one of the loft Omaha from a small frontier town to a apartments; decorative detailing on the vibrant metropolitan city. For more on exterior of Davis Square; Christine Fukumoto, Meredith Nunnikhoven and the name behind Davis Square, see Jamie Reiss relax in one of the loft page 41. apartments; and clockwise from left, Trenton Pruden, Chris Weir, Courtney Foote, Darrick Beckman and Michael Mao chat in one of the four-bedroom apartments. Photos by Bob Ervin

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Morrison Stadium Dedicated Creighton University’s new 5,000-seat downtown Omaha stadium was dedicated between the men’s and women’s soccer games in an on-field ceremony on Oct. 15. During the ceremony, Creighton officials named the stadium in honor of the Rev. Michael G. Morrison, S.J., who served as Creighton’s president from 1981 until 2000. Fr. Morrison served longer than any other Creighton president.

Photo by Mark Romesser Ordained in 1968, Fr. Morrison acquired five degrees, including a Ph.D. in history. He taught at St. Louis University, Marquette University, the University of Wisconsin, Creighton Prep and Creighton University. While at Creighton, a high point of each day was the hour he spent outside St. John’s Church chatting with students on their way to class. The Michael G. Morrison, S.J. Stadium has drawn nationwide acclaim. “It is becoming known as one of the best collegiate soccer venues in the nation,” said the Rev. John P. Schlegel, Photo by Dave Weaver Photo by Dave Weaver Creighton University president. “That is due to the high quality of the playing surface, and the fact that the stadium’s physical setting is a bowl, which reduces the effect of wind on the field.” The field was completed in August 2003, and Creighton teams played their fall 2003 seasons on it. Additions have occurred since, such as the construction of a concession area and installation of permanent seating in August 2004. The stadium also has suites and a media

Photo by Mark Romesser area. Morrison Stadium will host soccer tournaments as well as non-athletic Photos clockwise from top — The facade of Morrison Stadium faces Florence Boulevard; events such as Omaha Symphony a view from the field; a statue of Billy Bluejay, performances and youth marching band funded by Creighton students, greets fans as contests. they enter the stadium; the new scoreboard For more on Morrison Stadium, see on the south end of the soccer field; and the page 40. clocktower. Photo by Mark Romesser

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Magis Medical Clinic Aids Homeless After more than a year of planning, Creighton’s student-developed, student- run Magis Medical Clinic opened this fall, providing vital care to Omaha’s homeless. The clinic is located inside the Siena/Francis House, a homeless shelter a few blocks from campus. Its Saturday- only hours fill a critical need for weekend care. “It’s extremely needed,” said Rick Patch, a fourth-year medical student from Minneapolis and one of the student organizers. “There is nowhere for the homeless to go on the weekends for Photos by Mark Romesser Seated, left to right, are Zulma Barrios, Mary Rogers and Rick Patch; standing, left to right, are medical care, except, perhaps, Creighton Dr. James Phalen, Dave Rust, Katie Banker, Ajay Balaram and Angie Adams. University Medical Center’s ER.” Service-oriented medical students, like second years. In addition to Balaram and Jesuit motto “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam” May graduate David Semerad, BA’00, Patch, the officers are Zulma Barrios, Katie or “for the greater glory of God.” MD’04, pursued the idea of a clinic. Banker, Mary Rogers, Angie Adams, Dave Interest in the clinic among Creighton Semerad is now a radiology resident at Rust and Ann Allie. medical students is high. Those who These students — and several of their volunteer to work at the clinic visit with fellow classmates — helped make the clinic each patient and develop a diagnosis. a reality. They did everything from painting They then consult with Phalen or the clinic walls to applying for grants. another on-site physician, who offers In connection with the latter, Creighton professional guidance. was one of eight medical schools in the “We learn while we’re doing service,” country to receive a “Caring for Balaram said. “It’s the best of both Community” grant. The grant is funded by worlds.” the Association of American Medical Barrios, a fourth-year medical student Colleges and the Pfizer Medical Humanities from Omaha, said, eventually, she Initiative. would like to see other Creighton “I think it’s wonderful,” said James students working at the clinic — Phalen, BA’61, MD’65, associate professor of including those from Creighton’s radiology and associate professor of nursing, pharmacy and health medicine at Creighton University Medical professions, and dental schools. Center. Phalen volunteers his time as an on- “That’s a long-term goal,” she said. site physician, and was at the clinic during Tim Sully, BA’85, director of its Sept. 11 opening. “They’re not only development for the Siena/Francis Zulma Barrios checks the blood pressure of serving the community, but they’re getting House, said the clinic serves a critical a patient at the Magis Medical Clinic. experience in the art and science of need among Omaha’s homeless Madigan Army Medical Center in medicine.” community. Tacoma, Wash. The clinic, located just off the shelter’s “The Creighton medical students who “He did a lot of the early legwork,” dining hall, consists of a small waiting area are the driving force behind this said Ajay Balaram, a third-year medical and two examining rooms. During the endeavor identified a real gap in the student from St. Louis and another of week, the space is used by other health and provision of medical care to the the organizers. “He brought this team wellness organizations to assist the homeless — namely medical care on the together.” homeless. weekend,” Sully said. “The Magis “The team” consists of eight medical On Saturdays, the Magis Medical Clinic Medical Clinic is a thoughtful, students — three in their fourth years, comes to life. Magis is Latin for “more” and compassionate response to a true need three in their third years and two in their is commonly used in connection with the of the poorest of our community.”

8 Winter 2004 University News School of Pharmacy By & Health Professions the Receives HRSA Grant Numbers Creighton’s School of Pharmacy and Health Professions has received a Quentin N. Burdick grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Creighton‘s 2004 Freshman Class Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for its “Circles of Learning: Clinic as Creighton’s fall 2004 freshman class was the second largest, and one of the Interdisciplinary Classroom” program. The brightest, in school history. Creighton now boasts a record total enrollment of grant is a cooperative effort between 6,723 students. Here’s a look at Creighton’s newest students. Creighton University and the Omaha and Winnebago Nations. 970 Creighton’s 2004 freshman enrollment The “Circles of Learning” program is a 989 CU’s largest freshman class ever (1979) three-year interdisciplinary training project involving teams of occupational therapists, 834 Average freshman enrollment from physical therapists, nurses, pharmacists and 1992-2002 doctors who provide health care services to 953 Average freshman enrollment over the the Omaha and Winnebago American past two years Indian nations. The grant will provide Photos by Dave Weaver Fr. Schlegel visits with new students $562,000 over three years. during a Welcome Week dinner. The class profile … With this project, Creighton University 60% Female Medical Center builds upon an established 10-year academic-community partnership 40% Male between Creighton and the Indian Nations Catholic to provide health care services for diabetes, 63% geriatrics and mental health services, the 30 Total number of faiths represented areas specified by the reservation communities as areas needing attention. 163 Students representing ethnic minorities Gail Jensen, Ph.D., associate dean for 42 Percentage increase over 2002 faculty development and assessment, and Creighton students cheer on the men’s professor in the Department of Physical soccer team at an exhibition match. 3.8 Median high school GPA Therapy, is the principal investigator of the 30 Percentage with a GPA of 4.0 or better project. Co-investigators include Brenda Coppard, Ph.D., chair of occupational High school class ranking … therapy; Teresa Cochran, assistant professor Ranked No. 1 or 2 of physical therapy; and Steven T. Boyd, 13% PharmD, assistant professor of pharmacy 39% In the top 10 percent practice. 69% In the top 25 percent “Circles of Learning” is the fourth grant awarded to the School of Pharmacy and Where they’re from … Health Professions since 1997 for its Art Stallworth, left, and Deadre Currier Different states (and the District collaboration with the Omaha and at the Welcome Week carnival. 35 of Columbia) Winnebago Nations, totaling $1.9 million. This federal support has helped Creighton 7 Foreign countries provide important services to rural America. 30% Omaha and surrounding area In addition to clinical care, students also Students from Hawaii (CU enrolls more have provided more than 24,000 hours of 42 Hawaiian students per capita than any other service to these projects. university in the East, Midwest or South) The Office of Interprofessional Scholarship & Service, established within And don’t forget the transfers … the School in 2001, manages the student involvement and scholarly activity with the Freshman Katy Myers visits a nursing 104 New transfer students home with her classmates. Omaha and Winnebago Nations supported 10 Years since CU has had a class this large by these grants.

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Patrick Appointed to Governor‘s Women‘s Health Advisory Council The state of Nebraska has appointed Erline Patrick, Ph.D., as a member of the Women’s Health Initiative Advisory Council. Patrick is interim associate dean in the office of faculty affairs and development at Creighton University’s School of Medicine. The Women’s

Health Advisory Photo by Jim Keller Patrick Council was JayWalk Raises $5,000 for Jesuit Middle School established by the On Oct. 9, more than 400 runners and walkers participated in the Second Annual Legislature in the Women’s Health Initiative JayWalk 5K Run/Walk, sponsored by the Creighton Students Union (CSU) and of 2000 to advise and serve as a resource for Creighton Prep. Pictured above are students from the Jesuit Middle School of Omaha. the Nebraska Health and Human Services Holding the ceremonial check, which was presented after the run/walk at Morrison Office of Women’s Health. Stadium, are Abby Bruning, CSU vice president of student affairs, and Creighton Duties as a member of the council include President the Rev. John P. Schlegel, S.J. Bruning, a Creighton junior, coordinated this exploring sources of funding to improve the year’s event. health of women in Nebraska, interpreting and applying scientific and/or technical information to issues, recommending recognition ceremony. Hospital. Last year, Sattar was named a actions pertaining to women’s health and According to his nominator, Richard L. National Fellow by the Robert Wood disseminating information. O’Brien, M.D., Creighton professor of health Johnson Foundation. policy and ethics, Peak has coordinated community needs assessments and Lynch Receives Aultman Creighton‘s Peak education efforts for drug abuse prevention, Honored by Red Cross blindness prevention, cancer screening and Cancer Research Award Frank T. Peak was recognized by the cardiovascular disease prevention. Henry T. Lynch, M.D., hereditary cancer Heartland Chapter of the American Red expert, professor of medicine and chairman Cross as a Hero of the Heartland. The award Sattar Receives National of preventive medicine at Creighton honors individuals who have performed an University Medical Center, received the act of heroism during Psychiatry Award Fourth Aultman Cancer Research Award in the past year or who S. Pirzada Sattar, M.D., assistant professor September. The Aultman Health Foundation have been deemed of psychiatry, and medical director of the presents the award each year to a scientist heroes by the lives Department of Psychiatry’s Institute for who has made outstanding contributions in they lead or the Medicine & Law at Creighton University the field of cancer research. The Aultman examples they set. Medical Center, has received the Junior Health Foundation is a not-for-profit health Peak, community Faculty Development Award for 2004 system located in Canton, Ohio. outreach coordinator from the Association for Academic Lynch manages a database of thousands for Creighton Psychiatry (AAP). of family pedigrees tracing various University Medical The AAP award is given to recognize hereditary cancers. His detailed histories and Center’s Partnership in Peak promising junior faculty at member tissue collections have provided substantial Health, was recognized institutions. Sattar is one of only six faculty evidence leading to the discovery of gene in the medical category for forming and members from across the United States mutations such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 sustaining multiple community partnerships selected to attend the AAP annual meeting mutations that contribute to hereditary that have resulted in health education, in October in Albuquerque, N.M. breast cancers, rare strains of colorectal screening, care and prevention services to In addition to his positions at Creighton, cancers in Native Americans, and the strain thousands. He and 12 other recipients were Sattar is director of the Substance Abuse of hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer honored at a Sept. 15 breakfast and Treatment Center at the Omaha VA dubbed the Lynch Syndrome in his honor.

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continues through the end of this year. She personally and professionally,” Howe Working to Make then plans on going to Sarajevo to work for said. the War Crimes Chamber within the Court In Mongolia, Howe was able to travel a Difference of Bosnia and Herzegovina. outside the capital of Ulan Bator and get Three women from Creighton’s Law Lejla Zvidic, a fellow Sarajevan and to know the culture of Mongolians, on School are out in the world making a survivor of the Bosnian civil war, also has the steppes once wandered by Genghis difference by putting their Creighton taken time off between her second and third Khan, while training them about education to work for the good of year of law school at humanity. Creighton to pursue two “Asja Zujo, Lejla Zvidic and Jeanne internships in Europe. Howe represent the best of what After working six months Creighton law school is all about — for the Prosecutor’s Office educating for service and justice, and at the ICTY in The Hague, putting the Jesuit mission to work in a Zvidic interned with the very real and tangible way,” said Organization for Security & Michael Kelly, assistant professor of law Cooperation in Europe at Creighton. doing policy development. Asja Zujo, a native of Sarajevo, Currently, she is assisting in Bosnia, has taken a year off between her the establishment of the second and third year of law school to War Crimes Chamber work at The Hague war crimes tribunal within the Bosnian and Jeanne Howe poses with some children in Mongolia where she worked with the International Republican Institute training Herzegovinian court in the Netherlands. election workers. “As a student of international law and system. a Bosnian citizen, I feel very fortunate to “When I was invited to participate in strengthening democracy. Mongolia’s have had an opportunity to contribute to establishing a new War Crimes Chamber by parliamentary elections were held in the work of the ICTY (International the head of the U.N. commission tasked June, after which a power-sharing Criminal Tribunal for the Former with that project, I decided to take the arrangement was reached between Yugoslavia). I have learned a opportunity and delay my graduation by parties to form the new government. tremendous amount about the powers one more year,” Zvidic said. “The new “The most rewarding aspect of my job Bosnian War Crimes in Mongolia has been being able to see Chamber will handle cases the country’s political landscape change passed down from The so much — and it’s all at the will of the Hague tribunal as it begins citizens of Mongolia — not because a to wind up business over single political party forces the change or the next three years.” because an autocratic leader decides for Jeanne Howe, JD’02, everyone,” Howe said. works for the Washington, Howe traveled to Indonesia in D.C.-based International October to assist with training for newly Republican Institute (IRI), a elected local officials in Medan and Bali. nongovernmental These legislators were elected directly by organization, to promote the citizens for the first time in April democracy in Mongolia and elections. Recently, the current president Indonesia — two societies was replaced by the voters and the Lejla Zvidic, pictured above in The Hague, is now working to now emerging as young transition is predicted to be peaceful. establish the new Bosnian War Crimes Chamber within the Bosnian and Herzegovinian court system. democracies. As part of her “I had little exposure to Muslim work, Howe travels to the culture prior to my experience working that can unite a diverse group of people. countries to work with political parties and in Indonesia, which is the largest Muslim I was truly impressed with the government officials. democracy in the world,” Howe said. dedication of individuals who had no “Working with the expatriates and the “My experience has reinforced to me personal contact with the tragic events local staffs in Indonesia and Mongolia has that democracy in a Muslim influenced that occurred in the former Yugoslavia to enriched my experiences because they have culture is possible, which is in doubt of work together for such an important so much first-hand knowledge and political many people right now, especially with cause,” Zujo said. experiences both in the U.S. and overseas — Iraq and Afghanistan at the forefront of Zujo’s internship with the ICTY their insights have helped me grow Americans’ minds.”

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associate chair of education in the American Association of Colleges of Alumni Merit Department of Medicine. Pharmacy. Throughout his career, Habermann has In 1987, Rospond earned her doctor in Awards Presented participated in numerous research studies. pharmacy degree, which was jointly School of Medicine He recently chaired the National Large Cell administered by the University of Texas The School of Medicine presented Lymphoma Study conducted under the College of Pharmacy Thomas Habermann, BS’75, MD’79, with its auspices of the Eastern Cooperative and the University of Alumni Merit Award Oncology Group Grant. He also is on the Texas Health Science for 2004 on Sept. 17. North Central Cancer Treatment Group Center in San Habermann has Lymphoma Spore Grant, and is co- Antonio. She com- spent his career at investigator of a grant entitled “The pleted an oncology one of the premier Immunogenetic Determinance of Non- specialty residency cancer centers in the Hodgkins’ Lymphoma Survival.” at the Medical world — the Mayo Center Hospital in Clinic in Rochester, School of Pharmacy and San Antonio. Minn. With a focus Health Professions Rospond Rospond received on finding Raylene Rospond, PharmD, BSPha’84, further training at Habermann improvements in the received the 2004 School of Pharmacy and several prestigious institutions and is a diagnosis and Health Professions Alumni Merit Award on board certified pharmacotherapy specialist. treatment of hematologic diseases, Oct. 8. From 1988 to 1999, Rospond succeeded in Habermann is known as a world-class Rospond is the dean of Drake both teaching and administrative positions expert in the field of lymphoma. University’s College of Pharmacy and at Creighton University. In addition to Joining the Mayo Clinic Rochester faculty Health Sciences. She joined Drake in 1997 as teaching pharmacy practice courses, she in 1985, Habermann currently holds the associate dean for external pharmacy affairs, served as assistant dean for student affairs rank of professor of medicine at the Mayo became chair of the Department of for the School of Pharmacy and Health Clinic College of Medicine. He also is the Pharmacy Practice in 1999, and was Professions and as a faculty associate for the associate dean of the Mayo School of promoted to professor in 2003. Rospond is a Center for Health Policy and Ethics. Graduate Medical Education, consultant for fellow of the American College of Clinical Creighton recognized her numerous times Mayo Clinic’s Division of Hematology Pharmacy and, in 2002, received the with excellence in teaching and scholarly Department of Internal Medicine, and Innovation in Teaching Award from the achievement awards.

Pharmacy and Health injuries; researches and writes content about Section on Geriatrics of the American Professions Honors brain injury for various education levels and Physical Therapy Association. She also the association’s website; and has become a serves the Iowa Physical Therapy Young Alums nationally recognized keynote speaker on Association as medical chart reviewer. The School of Pharmacy and Health brain injury and the prevention of violence. L. Midori Kondo, PharmD’99, was Professions presented its Young Alumni The association recently promoted her to the recipient of the Young Alumni Appreciation Awards at the School’s the position of information and resources Appreciation Award for Pharmacy. Reunion Dinner on Oct. 8. department administrator. In 2000, Kondo joined the University Mary Car-Blanchard, BSOT’93, Jill Heitzman, DPT’02, recipient of the of Washington School of Pharmacy as a OTD’00, received the Young Alumni Young Alumni Appreciation Award for clinical instructor. There she was a co- Appreciation Award for Occupational Physical Therapy, is a certified wound investigator of a study that showed an Therapy. specialist and a board certified geriatric association between genetic variants in Car-Blanchard is an advocate for specialist. As a clinical coordinator of the human enzyme that metabolizes the people who have suffered brain injuries education at Mary Greeley Rehab and drug warfarin, a commonly prescribed and for the prevention of violence. Wellness in Ames, Iowa, Heitzman works in anticoagulant, and the risk of a serious For her professional rotation, Car- the outpatient clinic serving as the geriatric adverse reaction to the drug. Testing for Blanchard worked at the Brain Injury wellness resource clinician and wound the genetic variants can be done by a Association of America in Washington, management resource clinician. simple blood test and now ensures that D.C. Because of Car-Blanchard’s Heitzman is an instructor at Iowa State patients who test positively are given excellent work there, the association University and also is a guest lecturer at safer anticoagulant treatment. hired her to be its information specialist. Creighton University and Northern Iowa In 2004, Kondo was appointed to be In this position, she responds to Community College. She recently was director of pharmacy services at inquiries from the public about brain elected to the board of directors for the Kindred Hospital in Seattle.

12 Winter 2004 School ofCreighton Law — 1904-2004University The Professors Pages from the Law School‘s Centennial History

By Oliver B. Pollak, Ph.D., JD’82 Editor’s note: This is the second in a series highlighting the people who have shaped, or been shaped by, Creighton University’s School of Law over the past 100 years. Gillespie Bongardt Brown For more than three decades, beginning in remembered as an essential part of the School the Blue Jay, president of the Student Union 1917, Hugh Gillespie, BA’09, MA’11, LLB’15, of Law.” and the University’s 1924 chess champion. taught law at Creighton University — inspiring Charles Francis Bongardt, BA’20, JD’22, MA’25, Brown taught English in the Dental College, students and setting a high standard for future was born in Omaha in 1896. He volunteered as well as Latin and history. He graduated generations of Creighton law professors. for World War I and earned the Distinguished with a law degree in 1924. Gillespie was born in Pottsville, Pa., in 1887. Service Cross and two Croix de Guerre medals He attended Catholic University and He enrolled at Creighton in 1905 and earned a for bravery under fire. He crossed an open received a three-year scholarship to study bachelor’s degree in 1909 and a master’s in field in full view of the enemy to repair international affairs and civil law at the 1911. He then took law courses at night, while telephone lines “vitally necessary” to the universities of Oxford, Paris and Berlin. He serving as Creighton’s librarian and registrar Allies. After the war, he returned to Creighton, earned his doctorate at Oxford in 1932. and teaching courses in mathematics, English, earning three degrees. He also earned a master Brown taught at Catholic University from history and economics. of laws from Catholic University. 1926 to 1954, serving as law school dean from After earning his law degree from Creighton Bongardt treasured his Creighton education. 1947 to 1954. He was a prosecution consultant in 1915, he attended Catholic University of “As an Omaha boy who attended this institution at the Japanese war trials in Tokyo. He taught America, earning a master of laws degree in for 16 years, I can say from personal experience at Loyola University in New Orleans from 1917. He returned to Creighton that same year that (Creighton) is rendering this community 1954 to 1973. to teach law. He would remain at the University an inestimable amount of service.” He added, He sought to make Catholic law schools for the next 31 years, until his death in 1948. “(Creighton’s) scholarship ranks on par with distinctive from other state and private schools. Gillespie’s contributions were many and Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton.” In 1937, he published “Jurisprudential Aims of varied. He traveled the state promoting Bongardt served on Creighton’s law faculty Church Law Schools in the United States, A Catholic education on behalf of the Knights of from 1923 to 1943. He penned a weekly column, Survey,” in the Notre Dame Law Review. He also Columbus. During the 1920s and 30s, he gave “Epibellonaria” — which examined the world’s wrote the foreword for the first issue of the talks on Omaha’s WOW radio — examining political and social conditions and was Catholic University of America Law Review in everything from U.S. relations with South distributed to nearly 400 Nebraska newspapers 1950, stating that the review would “combat America to the Constitution. in the 1930s. secularism” while encouraging “reasonable In 1935, he urged the Omaha Bar Association Bongardt was an authority on evidence. In academic freedom of thought and expression.” to consider “integration of the bar” to strengthen 1933, he presented “Illegally Obtained Evidence Brown, who died in 1982, is remembered at the bar organization against the “increasing horde and the Constitution” and touched on the Catholic University by the Doctor Brendan of unethical and disreputable practitioners.” admissibility of evidence obtained by Francis Brown Natural Law Reading Room Nebraska soon adopted the integrated bar, which wiretapping. Bongardt was also active in the and at Loyola by the Brendan Brown Natural abandoned the “diploma privilege” and required American Legion. In 1945, he was elected Law Institute and the annual Brendan Brown all prospective lawyers to take the bar exam. commander of Omaha Post No. 1, then the Lecture. In 1936, Gillespie reflected: “It’s hard to realize world’s largest American Legion post. that the Creighton of today has grown from the Bongardt joined Union Pacific in 1943 and About the author: college I enrolled in back in 1905. Then we had retired from the railroad in 1968. He remained University of Nebraska seven buildings and six colleges; now we have loyal to Creighton and continued to participate at Omaha historian, 24 buildings and 13 schools and colleges. The in law school events. He died in February 1973 author and attorney enrollment in 1905 was 726; now it is 2,742.” at the age of 75. Oliver B. Pollak is Upon his death in April 1948 at the age of 60, Brendan F. Brown, BA’21, JD’24, was born writing the history of the the Creighton Alumnus recorded: “He has been in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1898. At Creighton, he Creighton University more than an alumnus and member of the was associate editor of the Creighton Chronicle, School of Law. This year faculty — he has been and will always be editor of the Creightonian, first editor in chief of marks the 100th anniversary of the law school.

13 Winter 2004 A Call to Partnership By Rick Davis, BA’88

The Very Rev. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., the worldwide leader of the Jesuit religious order, used his historic visit to Omaha — and Creighton University’s campus — last month to offer his gratitude and an invitation.

The Rome-based superior general of the Society of Jesus thanked students, parishioners, Jesuits and lay colleagues while visiting Omaha’s Jesuit-sponsored ministries during a busy two-day visit to the city Oct. 7 and 8. During his major address on Creighton’s campus — one of only two the superior general normally gives annually — Fr. Kolvenbach invited Jesuits and their lay partners into a deeper relationship, a “partnership of equality” that involves “moving beyond simply inviting lay persons to join Jesuits in Jesuit-sponsored works.” “For there to be a partnership of equality,” Fr. Kolvenbach told some 1,500 students, Jesuits and lay colleagues gathered in Creighton’s Kiewit Fitness Center, and others watching the speech live over the Internet, “the question changes from ‘How can lay women and men assist Jesuits in their ministries?’ “A new question emerges: ‘How can Jesuits serve lay women and men in their ministries?’ For that to happen, Creighton President the Rev. John P. Schlegel, S.J., and Jesuit Superior Jesuits must think of our parish, our General the Very Rev. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., address those retreat center, our school in a completely

Photo by Don Doll, S.J. gathered for the blessing of the St. Ignatius sculpture on campus. new way. A Call to Partnership

“We have to pass from an exclusive use of our parish, our school to an inclusive use. It is ‘ours’ now, referring to a larger group, because it is a mission for which all of us — Jesuits and lay — are co- responsible.” The Road to Omaha Fr. Kolvenbach came to Omaha at the invitation of the Rev. Jim Grummer, S.J., a former history professor at Creighton and now the provincial of the Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus. The seven-state Wisconsin Province includes Nebraska. Fr. Grummer asked the superior general to visit Omaha to celebrate the 125th Photo by Dave Thiel anniversary of the Jesuits first coming to Fr. Kolvenbach with students from Jesuit Middle School of Omaha. From left are: front, Jose Aguilar, the city (with the establishment of Michael Leach, Wayne Rolling and Tyrone Robinson; back, Dwight Smith, Fr. Kolvenbach and Creighton University in 1878) and the Chavez Brown. upcoming 50th anniversary (in 2005) of the beginning of the Wisconsin Province. determined by what you become.” contingent joined thousands of other In keeping with the theme of the visit He continued: “Something is wrong Jesuit students, Jesuits and lay — “Celebrating 125 Years of Jesuit/Lay in our world. Self-interest, injustice and colleagues in a national peaceful protest. Partnership in Omaha” — Fr. Grummer dehumanizing global patterns call for “The energy, the passion, the community, requested that Fr. Kolvenbach speak on our attention and critical thinking. And the striking symbolism acted as a catalyst the historic and evolving partnership they demand that if we are to be part of in my personal search for self-meaning between the Jesuits and the laity. transforming the world, we ourselves and identity,” Burke said. The first day of Fr. Kolvenbach’s visit must be thoroughly integrated persons. Burke, who would join the protest was filled with events at Jesuit-sponsored The world desperately needs women again in subsequent years, also has ministries in Omaha. He spent the second and men of competence and conscience traveled on service trips and volunteered day meeting with board members, parish who generously give of themselves for at the Siena/Francis House homeless councils, Creighton administrators and others that we might all come to know shelter in Omaha. With his sights set on Jesuits, as well as Omaha Archbishop and give ourselves to the Lord’s dream becoming a teacher after graduation, Elden Francis Curtiss. He also celebrated for our world.” Burke looks to share his Creighton a public Mass at St. John’s Church on Five students then spoke of their education and experience with future campus. experiences at Creighton. Sean Burke, a generations. senior from Denver majoring in theology “I hope to teach them not to expect Meeting with Students and history, was one of those students. education to be a mere preparation for a Fr. Kolvenbach began his visit to Omaha Looking to combine a healthy faith life job and a career,” Burke said. “Instead, it by meeting with a group of Creighton with serious intellectual thought, Burke should be constantly begging another student leaders. He offered a few words said, “What I found at Creighton is question. Namely, ‘What kind of person before listening to their stories of service. something far beyond my expectations.” am I becoming?’ And, ‘Is this person “Our education was never solely for He added: “I’ve truly found a willing to face the challenges offered by your personal development or to prepare community. A community that’s at its a world where so many are poor and so you for a career,” Fr. Kolvenbach told best when it has invited me to discern many are desperate?’” the roughly 70 students gathered for the not what I want, not what career I want, Fr. Kolvenbach applauded their efforts. 8:30 a.m. meeting in the Skutt Student but who I want to become, and especially “Thank you for allowing yourselves to Center. “The goal of Jesuit higher who I want to serve with the opportunities be stretched, at great personal sacrifice education is always in the context of the that I’ve been blessed with.” at times, that you might become women whole world and the role of the human Burke told of his experience traveling and men for and with others now and person in it. with a group of Creighton students to in the future.” “The vision of Jesuit education is that the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas we can make a contribution to the world (now the Western Hemisphere Institute Other Jesuit Missions by equipping you to make critical analysis for Security Cooperation) in Fort After visiting with the Creighton of the condition of our world today with Benning, Ga., which trains soldiers and students and hearing their inspirational compassion and with commitment. The military personnel from Latin American stories, Fr. Kolvenbach visited St. Benedict success of our Jesuit education is countries. There, the Creighton The Moor, a Jesuit-sponsored church

15 Winter 2004 A Call to Partnership Photo by Don Doll, S.J. Fr. Kolvenbach delivers a major address in Creighton’s Kiewit Fitness Center on Oct. 7. The superior general — who typically gives only two major addresses annually — spoke on the importance of collaboration between the Jesuits and laity.

located in North Omaha, and Jesuit the Jesuit goal of making the world a sculpture of St. Ignatius, this one Middle School of Omaha, a school in the better place for everyone without designed by CU fine arts professor same area established by the Jesuits to exception.” Littleton Alston. The new sculpture — better serve Omaha’s minority population. He then drew a comparison to made possible through a gift by John, “This school is a perfect example of the Creighton University’s history. “The BS’50, and Ann Louise, BA’75, Micek (Jesuit/lay) partnership Ignatius saw Creighton school, which evolved into and their family — is located in the nearly five centuries ago,” Fr. Kolvenbach Creighton Prep and Creighton University, flowerbed outside the Reinert Alumni told the students, friends and staff was founded 125 years ago to serve the Memorial Library. The piece is the focal gathered for a prayer service at Jesuit underdog. Omaha is filled with the point of Creighton’s newly redesigned Middle School. grandchildren and great-grandchildren campus mall. He explained how the school, for of boys from working-class families who “This image of the Jesuit founder now students in grades four through eight, took the streetcar or walked to the hilltop joins St. John’s Church as a tangible sign opened in 1995 after conversations at 24th and California streets for a Jesuit of our commitment to be a Catholic, between the Jesuits and the people of education. That tradition is still alive Jesuit-inspired University where everyone’s North Omaha. The Jesuits asked how and well here at Jesuit Middle School. gifts are called forth in support of our they could better serve their north side “My prayer is that this school enjoys common mission,” Creighton President neighbors. “The answer was the same success and develops the same the Rev. John P. Schlegel, S.J., said during overwhelming: ‘You are the Jesuits. legacy as its older brother at 24th and the dedication ceremony. “It is our desire Education is your specialty. We are California streets.” that Ignatius will inspire us all to be losing a generation of young men in our Afterward, Fr. Kolvenbach visited the women and men for and with others, community. Come to North Omaha and students, Jesuits and lay colleagues and who will make the power of their faith, do what you do best,’” Fr. Kolvenbach friends at Creighton Prep, the Jesuit high regardless of your faith tradition, the said. school in Omaha. While at Prep, he power of your faith felt through works As the students listened intently, Fr. blessed a sculpture of St. Ignatius, of justice.” Kolvenbach then touched on the issue of founder of the Jesuits. Prior to blessing the sculpture, Fr. race, offering: “The politics of race Kolvenbach congratulated Fr. Schlegel relations is beyond our control. But what Blessing the St. Ignatius on the “renovation of this beautiful we can do is make our young men so Sculpture mall” and he called the sculpture “an strong of mind and character that they Fr. Kolvenbach then returned to important symbol of the inspiration for will succeed in any community and live Creighton, where he blessed another Jesuit education.”

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In offering his prayer, Fr. Kolvenbach in Jesuit institutions are responding to asked God to send His “blessing upon the call of the Gospel summoning the this sculpture and support all who will hearts of all the baptized. Jesuits and laity draw support and inspiration from it. are called to answer in different ways, Through the intercession of St. Ignatius, but it is clearly a call we all share.” may this campus always be dedicated to The superior general emphasized that its mission, and may Creighton always this call comes equally to women and call forth the gifts of this richly diverse men. He said it’s important to recognize community for your greater glory and and appreciate the distinct gifts that the service of others.” women and men have to offer and to “attend particularly to the often Cooperating in Mission overlooked gifts of women.” The highlight of Fr. Kolvenbach’s visit In developing a mutually collaborative was his keynote address on Oct. 7. His Jesuit/lay partnership in mission, Fr. talk was based on part of the Kolvenbach stressed the importance of Photo by Don Doll, S.J. proceedings of the 34th General formation — “for both lay persons and About the Superior General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, Jesuits.” As superior general for the Society which was held 10 years ago and For those lay partners who freely choose addressed all the Jesuits of the world on of Jesus, the Very Rev. Peter-Hans this invitation, Fr. Kolvenbach said, “It is Kolvenbach, S.J., leads one of the the topic of “Partnership with the Laity our Jesuit responsibility to make available largest religious orders in the Catholic in Mission.” to them the possibility of exploring more Church. Today, there are more than “Decree 13 of that Congregation deeply the roots of Ignatian spirituality 20,000 Jesuits serving the Church in begins with these words: ‘A reading of and Jesuit ways of proceeding, to help 112 nations on six continents. the signs of the times since the Second them carry out their responsibilities Fr. Kolvenbach, who works out of Vatican Council shows unmistakably toward the Catholic and Jesuit identity the Jesuit Curia in Rome, was elected that the Church of the next millennium of the works they serve.” the 29th superior general of the will be called, as John Paul II said, the He added: “All who cooperate with Society of Jesus on Sept. 13, 1983, Church of the Laity,’” Fr. Kolvenbach Jesuits in any mission should grow in during the 33rd General Congregation said. “The Congregation said that the comfort with turning to Society leadership, of the order. Society of Jesus acknowledges that this Jesuit communities and individual Fr. Kolvenbach was born Nov. 30, development is ‘a grace of our day and Jesuits for support in their work.” 1928, in Druten, Holland. He attended a hope for the future’ and therefore we As for his Jesuit brothers, Fr. Kolvenbach Canisius College in Nijmegen, seek ‘to respond to this grace by offering asked for “initial and ongoing formation” Holland, concentrating on modern ourselves to that end by cooperation so they could “gain experience and skills languages. Fr. Kolvenbach speaks with them in their mission.’” for cooperation with the laity in mission.” eight languages fluently. Fr. Kolvenbach explained, “Jesuits are Men entering the Society, he said, “should On Sept. 7, 1948, he entered the not the only ones with a call to holiness be mentored in how to align themselves Jesuit novitiate at Mariendaal, or a vocation. Many of the lay partners in solidarity with women and the poor. Holland. Following philosophy “The future of this Jesuit/lay studies completed at the Berchmans partnership will depend, in great Institute in Nijmegen, he went to measure, upon the next generation of Lebanon, where he earned his Jesuits,” he said. doctorate in theology at St. Joseph’s Before concluding with a prayer, Fr. University, Beirut. He was ordained Kolvenbach again thanked his lay a priest in 1961. colleagues for their “patience and care From 1963 to 1976, he studied and … especially in the transformation of taught general and Oriental linguistics our ministries during the past 40 years. in diverse specialized institutes in La “Please continue to help us grow with Haye (Holland), Paris and Beirut. you in this evolving partnership in More recently, he was professor of mission,” he said. “We owe our deepest general linguistics at St. Joseph’s gratitude and pledge of support.” University in Beirut and was the *** provincial (1974-1981) of the vice- For more information on Fr. province of the Middle East. He Photo by Don Doll, S.J. served as rector of the Pontifical Fr. Kolvenbach is greeted by Maria Teresa Kolvenbach’s visit, or the complete text of his major address, visit: Oriental Institute in Rome for two Gaston, director of Creighton’s Center for years before being elected superior Service and Justice, following the superior www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/ general’s visit with Creighton students. Kolvenbach/. general.

17 Winter 2004 “Where Do You The Place of Get Your Ideas for Poems?” Research in Poetry By Susan Aizenberg, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing

18 Winter 2004 The Place of Research in Poetry

an important element in the creation of Capote in Brooklyn a poem. Certainly this has been true for Spring 1963 much of my own work. “Capote in Back from three years’ monastery life, working in Europe, he’s in love with these pacific Heights Brooklyn” and “Muse,” for example, are and genteel streets named for fruit trees that could two relatively recent poems of mine never grow here, with Willow Street, especially, whose creation depended to a great extent on a synthesis of research and the yellow house where he lives with Jack, imagination. where each dawn they hear—amazing!—a cock crow from some neighboring yard. Mornings he walks “Capote in Brooklyn” (Hotel Amerika, the Esplanade above the docks and the traffic Spring Issue, 2003) is one of a series of poems on which I’ve been working that seething below towards the city, the tall dazzle draw on the culture and history of of its skyline a jagged, brilliant rising from the East Brooklyn, N.Y., where I was born and River. He notes the flower man with his archaic dull horse and cart, the young mothers pushing carriages, spent most of my childhood. I discovered that Truman Capote, one of their candy-bright hair teased high, and makes his way the first writers who made me want to to the end of the docks, where the neighborhood write, lived for a time in Brooklyn, and shifts into abandoned warehouses and dim alleys, that he considered the Brooklyn Heights where there’s a haunted hotel, a fabled ghost who passes neighborhood where he made his home each morning by a fifth-floor window. He’s waiting, among the places he loved best. unable to finish the book he knows will make him This coincidence sparked that inner until the courts decide: will they swing or no? “itch” that often signals the germ of a They write him from their death row cells. He sends poem, and I began reading widely them cigarettes and books—dictionaries for Perry, about both the writer and the porn for Dick, Swing or no? Once, Perry told him, neighborhood. My research included Dick ran down a dog on the highway, just for fun. re-readings of In Cold Blood, as well as That’s the kind of man he was. Not like him, stories, essays and interviews by and with Capote, literary biographies and Perry said, he was never mean if he could help it, made Mr. Clutter comfortable before he cut his throat. memoirs, and field guides and histories The wind off the river smells of bait and coffee of Brooklyn Heights. from the trawlers, and the June mornings fairly Learning of a connection between New The resulting poem is set in spring York’s Brooklyn Heights neighborhood 1963. It was a difficult time for Capote. gleam. Far west, a Methodist crypt amidst the wheat (pictured here) and author Truman Capote He’d been working for years on his new fields and prairie wildflowers, the sealed Clutter (inset) — whose work included the award- house also waits—for the living to claim what winning novel In Cold Blood — Brooklyn book, the first non-fiction novel, In Cold its dead no longer have a use for: pie tins stacked native and Creighton poet Susan Aizenberg Blood, a brilliant chronicle of the horrific began research that eventually led to her murder of an entire Kansas farm family, and shining on a kitchen shelf, a girl’s locked diary poem “Capote in Brooklyn.” the Clutters, by two petty criminals buried among schoolbooks, her father’s boots ready named Perry Smith and Dick Hicok. by the mud scrape. Beside a narrow bed, left where

Photos by APPhotos by Publishing Dust jacket courtesy of Vintage he can find them in the morning, a boy’s thick glasses. The book, which Capote knew would be his masterwork, was almost Like most poets, I am often asked complete, but he could not write the Perhaps the most extensive research this good question, one more difficult to ending until Smith’s and Hicok’s final I have done for a poem so far has been answer than might be imagined. Poems death-row appeals had been decided. for “Muse,” the title poem of my 2002 emerge from the intersection of many Complicating matters was the fact that collection. “Muse” is based on the life and complex “places,” arising out of Capote had come to know the two men of Vivienne Eliot (1889-1947), poet T.S. experience, memory, dreams; inspired quite well; they considered him their Eliot’s first wife. by other poems and by other mediums friend. He spent that spring in a kind of A gifted writer and editor in her own of art. Sometimes an image or phrase frustrated limbo, unable to complete In right, Vivienne Eliot ended her life as a seems to come from nowhere and stays Cold Blood, unable to begin work on “Ward in Chancery,” stripped of all in the mind for months, even years, anything else. Nights, he lost himself in rights and condemned to a mental insisting on itself until it begins to the glamorous nightclubs across the institution by her husband and her evolve into a poem. river in Manhattan, but in the mornings, brother, Maurice Haigh-Wood. What often surprises those who ask he’d take long walks through the quiet Overshadowed, in both life and death, this question is that research, that in- streets of Brooklyn Heights, which is by her iconic husband, she was almost depth exploration of a subject more where my poem imagines him. Here is universally condemned as a selfish often associated with scholarly papers, the poem in its entirety, as it appeared in madwoman whose chief place in journalism and even fiction, is also often the spring 2003 issue of Hotel Amerika: literary history was as the grotesque

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burden stoically borne by a great man. Jones, has been published.) In every know precisely what was wrong with I first came upon a depiction of case, with one important exception, her; we do know it was some sort of Vivienne in a memoir by a minor figure Vivienne was portrayed as a harridan, severe gynecological problem and that among that legendary group of literary irrational, selfish and loud. the treatment for it, a lifelong daily friends known as the “Bloomsbury I was nevertheless able to learn some cocktail of morphine, ether and alcohol, circle”; no less a feminist pioneer than objective facts: She was herself a poet was clearly the reason for some of her Virginia Woolf was quoted as calling her and short story writer, a literary editor, a more outrageous behavior. “that bag of ferrets” around her friend dancer, a highly intelligent and lively The more I read, the more impassioned Tom Eliot’s neck. woman. She also was a very sick I became about attempting, in my own Intrigued, and a little stunned, by woman, and victim to the poor medical small way, to speak for this much such a cruel dismissal of another knowledge and sexism of her time — maligned woman. Her fate seems to me woman by a writer I deeply admire, I something I would learn in the only emblematic of those of so many gifted soon discovered that the only way to sympathetic portrayal of her then in and unconventional women before the learn about Vivienne was by gleaning existence, Michael Hastings’ fine play, second wave of feminism, a group to what biographical facts I could from Tom & Viv, and the film based upon it. whom I feel an enormous debt. The biographies of Eliot and other Hastings’ play, drawn from the late- resulting poem took many months of Bloomsbury group memoirs. life confession of a guilt-ridden Maurice research and composition. Composed in At that time, Vivienne’s papers, held Haigh-Wood, offers a much more four brief sections, it begins with a by the Eliot family, had not been made complex version of Vivienne’s life. Here compilation of quotes from the various available to scholars, and no biography I discovered that she had been ill, since biographies and memoirs in which she of her existed. (Since the publication of early adolescence, with what were then is mentioned: Muse, the first such biography, Painted called “women’s troubles.” Given that Shadows: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First such illness was then shrouded in Muse Wife of T.S. Eliot, by Carole Seymour mystery and shame, it is difficult to — Vivienne Eliot, 1889-1947

Tom’s Bloomsbury bunch called her ‘the river girl.’ They were afraid of her... — Maurice Haigh-Wood

She has everything to give that I want, and she gives it. — T.S. Eliot

I. RIVER GIRL a litany

Incarnate provocation bag of ferrets flirt

morally insane, frivolous

a silly little woman attractive to men but not a girl to bring to Mother

shallow self-centered a prima dona

preoccupied with romance, gross with women’s troubles

that torture

Photo by Mark Romesser reeking of ether Creighton’s Susan Aizenberg, right, meets with recent graduate Andrea Comiskey-Lawse, BA’02, MA’04. her voice a shriek— (it’s true she chose her men poorly: About the Author a lover who found her hellish, loathsome, her genius husband The recipient of the 2003 Nebraska Arts Council’s Distinguished Artist with his truss, his vow of celibacy, his green face powder Fellowship, Susan Aizenberg is an assistant professor of creative writing and and stained lips. Her own face white, English in Creighton’s English department. mottled from an excess of bromide, Aizenberg has published widely in literary journals and been awarded many her eyes vague, acutely sad). prizes for her work, including the Nebraska Center for the Book Poetry Award for 2004, the Virginia Commonwealth University Larry Levis Prize for a first book of In the poem’s second section, I poetry, and several Pushcart Prize nominations. imagined Vivienne at 16, about the time Her most recent books are Muse (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry/Southern she would have first started her Illinois University Press, 2002) and The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American “medication.” For this scene, I did some Women (Columbia University Press, 2001), the first comprehensive anthology of research on the English countryside; contemporary poetry by American women, with co-editor Erin Belieu. For more on discovering the phenomenon of the her work, see the box on the opposite page. bluebells gave me a key to the poem:

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2. BLUEBELL WOODS 1905, April For the final section of the poem, I From Susan Aizenberg ... wanted the reader to experience, with Delicious, this absence of pain— Vivienne, her last days at the Muse On the smooth pitch behind Father’s Northumberland mental institution. Once From the Publisher: house, the adults linger over cricket. She hears again, I researched the English Muse, the first full- the soft knock of wood, countryside, this time to imagine it in length collection from low murmurs, laughter. winter, and checking to see what sort of poet Susan Aizenberg, Inside Martha scrubs indoor plants might be in bloom. A friend brings together poems this morning’s bloody sheets, another ruined lace gown. For once she doesn’t care. suggested it might be a good time to let of personal history, Vivienne speak for herself. Casting the elegy, and the complex Her head light, gut unclenched, she sways poem in her voice, I relied on empathy lives of artists, writers, and “ordinary” and imagination, based on all I had people, in an exploration of the past the rhododendron sentries, drifts researched and my own feelings of kinship relationship between art and life, invisible, it seems, across the meadow’s with her character as I envisioned it. This esthetics and ethics. She is sharp-eyed riotous gorse, wild red vetch, white stitchwort, pink ladysmock. last section of the poem is set during the in purpose, trying to understand “what month of her death. love is” in a continual shifting between She thinks the flowers may be speaking. loss and knowledge. While “there is no Bless Dr. Arnold, bless Mother. 4. THE RIM other world than this one” for Northumberland House Bless most of all those bottles gleaming Aizenberg, nevertheless she finds a 1947, January on the bedstand, their strange names—anodyne, bromide— world of affirmation. Aizenberg sings lovely as the names of flowers. Reflexed and crownlike, happy enough elegant blues, keeps a perfect balance in the drawing room’s dim afternoon light, She moves deep into the woods’ damp the cyclamen’s petals bloom, pink between elaboration and restraint with shade, until she’s lost as nursery paper, above its mottled leaves— formal skill that is both impressive in blues— a ring of hearts the damp, sober green and consoling, reminding us that violet, aquamarine, gentian cobalt... of moss. These fugitive winter days poetry is a form of intelligence in Endymion nonscriptus—bluebells. reluctant darkness shudders into morning, resolves, each twilight, into evening’s which music creates a world full of Sodden leaves and these many phantom vacancies. In between, the tea mystery and depth. silent, soothing bells erase kettle’s fading hiss, this cloying scent the footpath, and because she’s sixteen, of hothouse flowers. I watch snow ghosting the patio, the abandoned gazebo, The her head cloudy with ether Extraordinary and alcohol, she feels she’s floating woodsmoke rising over the silver birches on azure, a magic carpet to brindle a chalky sky. I watch myself Tide moving, like a wraith, between the armchair From Alan Shapiro, that might take her anywhere. It’s so quiet now and the window, between this overheated she can hear the lisp of grass snakes, room, its moldering velvets and aging damasks, author of The Last these yellowed doilies we residents stitch, Happy Occasion: each bird calling, the hush and chirr of morning gossip and every feverish, echoing room sprung “The Extraordinary passing, neighborly, from the rising backwash of the past. I am nearly weightless now, so thin Tide is an among the sheltering larch. any small arms might encircle me, extraordinary and important my body grown so light I can easily slip across the beckoning rim. anthology that anyone interested in For the third, and penultimate section contemporary American poetry will of “Muse,” I wanted to show what it want to read and cherish. The voices meant to become a “Ward in Chancery,” After more than three decades of in this book are diverse; the kinds of stripped of everything by the courts. writing poetry, I still can’t fully answer the poems gathered here are various in Filtering photographs and facts I’d question of how poems come to me. At its style and subject. But the one garnered from Eliot’s biographies heart, I believe the creation of poetry is a assumption that underlies and through the lens of my imagination, I mystery — if it were not, it would be animates every line of every poem is wrote the following prose poem: difficult to imagine a lifetime spent that inclusiveness, intellectual and working at it. imaginative restlessness, impurity and 3. WARD IN CHANCERY what they took from her It is, too, first and always, an act of the radical play are the lifeblood of our imagination, but as I have found in my language and our literature, renewing Photographs she’d lived with twenty years, her husband’s love letters. Trunks of filmy scarves, sheer, petal-colored dresses. Her lacework. own practice, and tell my students, the very conventions and traditions Pairs of pastel boots with their many pearl buttons, those straw hats research can spark and enrich that they resist. Contemporary American pinned with gleaming fruit, stockings the color of sorbet—even her fascist drag, black waistcoat and cape, the ivory cigarette holder. They imagination, take the poet beyond the women poets have given a great gift took her passport, her driver’s license, her right to vote or appeal for self-absorption which is a hazard of this to all students of poetry, to those of us release. They took her powders and elixirs, her car keys, the keys to her flat. Her money. Her mother lined a steamer with silk pillows, packed art, and infuse one’s work with accuracy who go to poetry for news of what it her diaries and sheet music, the hinged box of watercolors, satin-toed and authenticity. means to be a human being at this dancing shoes she’d worn down at the heels, French scent T. hated for its female masking trick. They took her books, cartoons she’d drawn, the moment in our history.” stories and poems she’d written, her copies of The Criterion, the margins scrawled with purple-inked comments in her spidery hand.

21 Winter 2004 To Cheer By Randolph Feezell, Ph.D., and William Stephens, Ph.D. Without Could a Cubs

Let’s face it — unless you’re a masochist, it’s tough to be a Cubs fan. The lovable losers from the north side of Chicago don’t provide much joy late in the baseball season. Even recent success has come with heartache. So, could a centuries- old philosophy — to tweak a line from Field of Dreams — “ease a Cubs fan’s pain”? AP Photo/John Bazemore

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Epictetus’ text that seem to reinforce an unsympathetic picture of the Stoic as unnatural: cold, mechanical and dispassionate to an extent almost inhuman. If this is the ideal of Stoic life, perhaps sports fans are better off ignoring the advice of the Stoic philosopher. The fan’s situation is particularly interesting in this context. Let’s suppose Fear: a Stoic is, as the dictionary suggests, one who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain. It might Fan Be a Stoic? reasonably follow from this indifference that the Stoic is never unhappy. But surely most fans realize that being Long-suffering Cubs fans — including even undergraduate philosophy students unhappy is a permanent possibility of those who have followed the Creighton- are somewhat suspicious when they being a fan. Let’s call this “The Fan’s Cubs connection (see page 24) — take first encounter a Stoic text like Epictetus’ Dilemma.” heart. While the Cubbies haven’t appeared Handbook. They come to this text with To be a fan is to care who wins, and in a World Series since 1945 or been crowned some sense of the everyday meaning of caring who wins is a condition for being champions since 1908, don’t despair. the term “Stoic.” a happy fan. But it is also a condition for Perhaps all you need is a dose of In the American Heritage Dictionary, being unhappy, and to the extent that early-Greek Stoicism to seep beneath a Stoic is defined as “one who is your team loses often, it will be a your rally cap. seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by condition for being unhappy often. A Remember that little prayer some of pleasure or pain.” The Stoic is supposed fan can avoid unhappiness by not us learned in youth? “God, grant me the to appear calm, cool and dispassionate, caring, but then she’s not really a fan. So serenity to accept the things I cannot perhaps in the face of situations that being a fan seems inevitably to lead to change, the courage to change the things I normally cause people to act (and feel) unhappiness. can, and the wisdom to know the quite differently: failure, tragedy, If a Stoic is unaffected by pleasure or difference.” separation, loss, illness, even death. pain, how could a Stoic be a fan? I either This prayer captures the fundamental There are striking passages in care about my team’s successes and idea of the Stoic tradition, which counsels us to seek tranquility by not allowing our happiness to depend on external factors we cannot, in the end, control. For the Stoic, the important goals in life are internal, not external. Stoicism requires us to be acutely aware of the extent to which we are in control of certain internal aspects of our lives, like desires, emotions and judgments, which are necessary for true happiness and freedom as self-mastery. Philosophy seeks wisdom, and, in this case, it’s wise to remind fans that it’s better to approach the Cubs’ performance stoically since, in the end, fans can control neither the outcome of sporting events nor the verdicts of history. But they can control their internal economy in order to avoid unhappiness. Cubs fans may benefit from a little Stoic therapy.

The Fan’s Dilemma: AP Photo/Morry Gash Do Stoics Care Who Wins? Jinxed? The Cubs were five outs away from a trip to the World Series in 2003 when a fan tipped this foul ball away from left fielder Moises Alou, whose arm can be seen at right. The Cubs went on to lose However, there is a puzzle here, and the game and the series to the Florida Marlins.

23 Winter 2004 To Cheer Without Fear: Could a Cubs Fan Be a Stoic? The Creighton- Cubs Connection The Chicago Cubs and Creighton’s baseball team share more than just the “C” on their caps. The Cubs’ general manager, Jim Hendry, was Creighton’s head baseball coach from 1985 to 1991. Hendry guided Creighton to a College World Series appearance in 1991, and was inducted into Creighton’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001. In addition, former Creighton players and Hall of Fame honorees Oneri Fleita (1987-1988) and Scott Servais (1986-1988) are on the Cubs staff. Fleita serves as the Cubs’ director of player development, and Servais (who also once played for the Cubs) is a roving catching instructor. Jim Hendry tips his hat to the Rosenblatt Stadium crowd during Creighton’s 1991 appearance in the Servais’ uncle, Ed Servais, is Creighton’s College World Series. current head baseball coach.

failures or I don’t. If I care, I will On the other hand, the Stoic is also or disturbed, or upset, let us never blame inevitably be unhappy — at least at commonly thought to be utterly devoid others, but only ourselves, that is, our times. If I don’t care, I will avoid being of tender feelings. He lacks love, sympathy own judgments. (#5) unhappy, but I’ll also be unable to for others and the ability to grieve real experience fan happiness. If the Stoic’s losses. Similarly, the Stoic is usually Do not ask things to happen as you wish, goal is to avoid unhappiness, how could believed to lack the capacity for joy or but wish them to happen as they do happen, a Stoic be a real fan? exuberance about anything whatsoever. and your life will go smoothly. (#8) For fans of historically bad teams, like Apathy and emotional indifference the Chicago Cubs, the problem is more characterize the unflappable Stoic, since The Stoic: An Emotionally acute, since the Cubs lose — especially he simply accepts whatever happens Detached Spectator? the big games — so consistently. without the least agitation or Passages like these paint a portrait of Perhaps they need to take their excitement. a passive person whose interests and perpetual losing more “stoically.” But The Stoic, as the caricature has it, concerns are utterly detached from the how could this make sense? Could a resigns himself to all events in life, people and events around him. Cubs fan be a Stoic? taking them in stride with a completely Handbook #5 insists that one’s own neutral emotionality, never celebrating judgments determine one’s mental state, The Misconception of or despairing anything that happens. whether as good or ill, not events Simple Stoicism While the concept of Simple Stoicism themselves. This would suggest that if A caricature of the Stoic sports fan may be a cultural artifact available to one’s team loses, it is not at all bad in derives directly from a common anyone who understands the usage itself, but only judging it to be so makes misconception of the Stoic’s view of life. described in the dictionary, it appears to it so. But a (simple) Stoic would not Let’s call this misconception “Simple have some textual basis. For those who judge an event beyond his control to be Stoicism.” consult the most accessible Stoic texts, bad, because doing so would render According to this view, which seems there are passages that might be him to be the sufferer of a bad thing, to have seeped into our common interpreted along the lines of Simple and thus unhappy. If the loss of one’s understanding and vocabulary, the Stoic Stoicism. In the Handbook Epictetus says: team is not a bad thing for the Stoic, is believed to be a stiff, emotionless then he appears to be no fan of that person who never smiles, laughs or It is not the things themselves that disturb team at all. cries, regardless of what happens to him people but their judgments about those Handbook #8 similarly can be or to the people around him. The Stoic things. Death, for instance, is nothing construed so as to make the idea of a keeps a firm upper lip in the face of terrible, or else it would have appeared so Stoic fan look incoherent. Wishing for adversity, so his courage and the to Socrates too. But the terror lies in our his team to win seems contrary to the resoluteness with which he pursues his own judgment about death, that death is (simple) Stoic’s willingness to wish for endeavor are usually seen as admirable. terrible. So, whenever we are frustrated, whatever does happen to happen. That

24 Winter 2004 To Cheer Without Fear: Could a Cubs Fan Be a Stoic? is, it appears he should wait until the also not care about any individual human life or the flourishing human end of the game, and then “wish for” performance, no matter how spectacular life, is the virtuous life. Stoicism the winning team to win. The (simple) or abysmal. The hitting displays of famously espouses what has come to be Stoic thus would be just as happy if the Sammy Sosa would not so much as called the “Sufficiency Thesis” opposing team won as he would be if tingle a hair on the Stoic’s head. concerning the relation between the his team won. He will embrace either Nothing, according to the caricature, morally virtuous life and the good life. outcome in order for his life to go makes the Stoic happy or sad, and so no Moral virtue is sufficient for the good smoothly. This way, he avoids having game-saving catches made by Corey life. Simple Stoicism overlooks how one of his desires, his desire for his team Patterson, no clutch strikeouts thrown enacting the virtuous life requires to win, thwarted when it in fact loses. by Kerry Wood, no season of record- pursuing goals and preferences in the Here again the absurdity is evident. It smashing hits would evoke the least rise right kind of way, the virtuous way. The seems that the (simple) Stoic fan does out of him. goals, the objects selected and the not and cannot root for a team during a preferences followed could well include game; he can only welcome the victory game outcomes and athletic excellences of the victors after the game is over, and that in themselves lack moral value. So he has no allegiance to either team If the Stoic’s long as the Stoic concentrates her efforts during the contest. on dealing with the game outcomes and Such total detachment from any the plays as they unfold by conducting team’s in-game endeavors coupled with goal is to avoid herself in a way harmonious with her such a bizarre, fickle embracing of the reason, that is, in a way that sustains victors’ victory after the fact certainly unhappiness, and expresses virtue, she can vigorously appears to rule out the Simple Stoic cheer for her team. spectator as a fan. Stoics believe that the only things According to Simple Stoicism, the how could a Stoic that are truly good, without exception, Stoic ought to limit his desires to the regardless of circumstances, are virtuous things that are up to him. The things be a real fan? states of character — wisdom, that are up to him are his own desires, temperance, justice, courage — and the aversions, judgments, choices, decisions actions that flow from them. Only and volitions. In order to preserve his On the basis of such a portrait, the virtues can never be abused. Only peace of mind and an unhindered, obvious question is: Why would the smooth flow of life, he must accept each Stoic fan bother watching a game in the event in the world. He must also let go first place? To be so emotionally of each person and object that is taken detached from the players, the game from him or lost. The Simple Stoic and the sport itself is to fail to be a fan at accepts the roles he finds himself in, all. This or something like it is how the concerns himself with making good use critic of the Stoic sports fan might argue. of the things that come his way as a traveler treats an inn, but deliberately Sophisticated Stoicism refuses to attach himself emotionally or Clearly the criticisms just described psychologically to such things since he pose a very serious challenge to the knows his use and enjoyment of them is legitimacy of the Stoic sports fan. But only and always temporary. we believe they are based on a It is easy to see how to derive the misunderstanding of Stoicism — corresponding attitude toward sport one that unfairly distorts the Stoic’s from this general conception of a Stoic understanding of what things are good, person. what things are bad and what things The Stoic fan, the argument might go, are indifferent. would be utterly indifferent to any The central error of Simple Stoicism is aspect of a sporting contest. First, he that it oversimplifies Stoic moral would not care in the least which team psychology. won or lost. Since the Stoic accepts Perhaps the major misunderstanding every outcome as fated, it would make is thinking that happiness, according to AP Photo/John Bazemore no sense to root for the Cubs over their the Stoic, is simply a lack of unhappiness, A Cubs fan weeps after the Florida Marlins beat opponents. understood as the absence of negative the Cubs in Game 7 to win the 2003 National feelings and emotions like frustration, League pennant. With the loss, the Cubs became But not only would such a Stoic fan only the fourth team in history to lose a league be a completely disinterested spectator resentment and despair. championship series after going up three games about the game as a whole, he would The happy life, that is, the good to one.

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virtuous actions are worth choosing Difficulties are the things that show what no matter what. men are. Henceforth, when some difficulty Conversely, the only true evils, befalls you, remember that god, like a according to Stoicism, are moral vices: wrestling-master, has matched you with a ignorance, intemperance, injustice, rough young man. For what end? That you cowardice and the like. These traits of may become an Olympic victor, and that character, and the intentions, decisions, cannot be done without sweat. No man, in emotions and actions flowing from my opinion, has a more advantageous them are to be avoided at all costs. difficulty on his hands than you have, if only Stoics also believe that our own beliefs, you will but use it as an athlete uses the judgments, desires and intentions are the young man he is wrestling against. only things completely up to us. No one (Discourses 1. 24. 1-2). can force us to accept a belief, hold a This is an example of what Epictetus value judgment or make a choice against - our will. Because of this, Stoics maintain calls askesis — the idea of persistent, that we enjoy complete sovereignty in disciplined training in Stoic (“ascetic”) the mental and volitional sphere. habits of mind. When faced with a Emotions like greed, anger, fear and challenge that tests our ability to envy are not things that happen to us endure, to persevere and to overcome,

against our will, the Stoics believe. AP Photo/Ben Margot the Stoic embraces the opportunity to Rather, emotions result from the A Cubs fan cheers on Greg Maddux this past exercise his virtues. judgments we choose to make. season, as he became just the 22nd major league By responding to a trying situation pitcher to reach 300 victories. The true Stoic with patience, one strengthens one’s Consequently, the Stoics believe that our sports fan can applaud these acts of athletic emotional states are also ultimately up excellence, without getting too wrapped up in ability to be patient in the future. By to us. the game’s outcome. handling turmoil with poise, it becomes easier to be calm in the future. By The Basic Stoic Argument refusing to be provoked by someone then our happiness will be fragile However, in order to strengthen our who is insulting, one frees oneself from and contingent — we will certainly rational ability to make sound the destructiveness of anger. Occasions be unhappy. judgments, we must train our minds to to deal virtuously with adversity are 5. Therefore, the wisest policy for - consistently assent only to true beliefs training sessions in askesis. achieving the good life is to limit about what is good, what is bad and our desires to those things what is neither. Developing such habits How Does This Apply essentially up to us. of thought is quite uncommon, because to Sports? most people do not commit themselves One example of a judgment a Stoic How does this thinking apply in the to maintaining such uncompromisingly makes is that when one’s favorite team case of the sports fan — even a long- rational and objective beliefs. Too often, loses, it is not a bad thing. The loss of a suffering Cubs fan? By watching the people believe what they want to game is not bad, because it is not a lack Cubs play and by closely following the believe. As a result, non-Stoics tend to of moral character, an irrational players’ exploits, Stoic Cubs fans can make unreasonable judgments that judgment, a false belief or a vicious train themselves to enjoy the blessings trigger greed, anger, fear and envy, and deed. Similarly, when a player one likes, they receive without mistakenly judging so they cause themselves to be frustrated say, Aramis Ramirez, hits into a double- the team’s blunders to be bad things — and miserable. play or makes an error, those failures are or the behavior of fans to be responsible The basic reasoning at the heart of not bad. As long as Ramirez did not try for the ultimate downfall of the team. Stoic ethics can be presented as follows: to err, he is blameless. Only his intention No protracted hitting slump of Sosa, no 1. The good life is a happy life. and attempt are completely up to him, stupendous fielding error by Mark 2. The wisest attitude toward life is after all. So it is foolish to criticize Grudzielanek, no blown save by LaTroy one that offers the best chance of players or teams for failing to make Hawkins is a hardship that detracts happiness for a person. plays or win games, as long as they do from the happiness, that is, the virtue, of 3. Happiness is a matter of getting their best and use all their skills to try to the Stoic Cubs fan. what we want (satisfying desires) succeed on the field of play. The Stoic fan can welcome the victory and avoiding what we do not want Developing a rational, objective of her team without taunting the (avoiding our aversions). perspective is no quick or easy feat. opposing team’s fans. Moreover, the 4. If we desire things that are Epictetus, the ex-slave and masterful Stoic fan can exercise the virtues of essentially out of our control, or teacher of Stoicism, compares training in patience, endurance and loyalty when want to avoid things that are Stoicism to the strenuous regimen of her team loses. She sees a lost game not inevitable or out of our control, Olympic athletes. as a disaster, but rather as an

26 Winter 2004 To Cheer Without Fear: Could a Cubs Fan Be a Stoic? opportunity for her team to improve. the Stoic fan can be enthusiastic when for post-season baseball at Wrigley? The The virtuous Stoic spectator appreciates her team excels, without jeering when it Stoic Cubs fan will wish for it only the athletic excellence of other players stumbles. She can cheer without fear. provisionally, if it is the will of Zeus. on other teams (even the St. Louis A Cubs fan would be wise to be a Stoic. Cardinals). An appreciation of Back to the Cubs Fan Didn’t the Florida Marlins show last excellence is certainly another virtue. Could a Cubs fan be a Stoic? Our year that Stoicism is vital to the peace Therefore, the Stoic fan will not be an answer is “yes.” of mind of Cubs fans everywhere? indifferent, disinterested spectator, but Should a Stoic be a Cubs fan? There rather a calm, polite and engaged are plenty of opportunities in life that About the authors: Randolph M. Feezell, observer of the sport. The Stoic sports challenge our mettle. As a human being, Ph.D., professor of philosophy at Creighton, fan is not detached from everything a Stoic has no shortage of chances for has published numerous books, articles and - willy-nilly. Rather, she is appropriately askesis. Thus rooting for the Cubs would reviews. His books include Coaching for detached (for example, from the depend on whether one likes major Character: Reclaiming the Principles of outcome of a game), because she league baseball, whether one has a Sportsmanship (Human Kinetics, 1997) recognizes sport to be serious non- special fondness for the Friendly and Sport, Play, and Ethical Reflection seriousness. Confines, and whether one is drawn to (University of Illinois Press, 2004). His essay the continuing saga of the team that on cheating in baseball recently appeared in calls it home. Baseball and Philosophy (Open Court, Hope is a hallowed Christian virtue, 2004). and the Serenity Prayer is only one Stoic Cubs fans can remnant of Stoicism that Christian William O. Stephens, Ph.D., associate professor thought inherited. Dare a Cubs fan hope of philosophy at Creighton, has published various articles, reviews and a translation of train themselves to a German book on Stoicism. Stephens and Feezell recently co-authored “The Ideal of the enjoy the blessings Stoic Sportsman” in The Journal of the Philosophy of Sport (2004). Stephens’ WOWT Channel 6 interview on they receive without unsportsmanlike conduct aired Oct. 13, 2003. mistakenly judging the team’s blunders to be bad things ...

Sport is serious insofar as seriousness is a condition for the possibility of the development of virtue, non-serious insofar as the outcome doesn’t really matter and the important things in life, virtues, are not minimized by athletic victory or defeat. During the game, for the fan outside the lines, how the game is played is serious business deserving of serious care. The game itself is not a serious activity in the context of the living of a good life. The Stoic sports fan thereby correctly understands the nature of sport, and so she feels the right things in the right

ways. The careful seriousness and en J. Carrera

confident playfulness which the Stoic Steph sports fan balances constitute her

equanimity in victory and defeat. Thus AP Photo/

X Winter 2004 Xxxxxxxx A New Campus View Wearing three-inch heels? Not to worry. Creighton’s mall is smoooooth now. Want a place to sit in the sun between classes? Try our mall walls. How about a little inspiration? Set your sights upon the new St. Ignatius sculpture, created by CU’s own Littleton Alston, in front of the Reinert Alumni Memorial Library.

Photos by Mark Romesser

28 Winter 2004 Xxxxxxxx “Our goal is to create a modern urban campus in a garden-like setting and to deliver a cutting-edge learning and living environment to benefit our students.” — The Rev. John P. Schlegel, S.J. President

Top: A panoramic view of the new campus mall looking east from near the lower-level entrance to the Skutt Student Center. Inset: A view of the mall at dusk, taken from atop Kiewit Hall.

Bottom, from left: The mall’s circular flowerbeds; the redesigned entrance to the Skutt Student Center and Kiewit Fitness Center; looking west toward Kiewit Hall; students Annie Wilkins, left, and Carolyn Hund enjoy the mall; the sculpture of St. Ignatius; a view from atop Kiewit Hall. 29 Winter 2004 Iraq

AP Photo/Jerome Delay Iraq Déjà Vu

“We come as liberators.” In an effort to placate those not yet that it is both living with the convinced of British good will, Lt. Gen. consequences of the British failure in In February 1917, the Sir Frederick Stanley Maude issued a Iraq and is in danger of repeating it. proclamation, which was posted at Come, then, as we uncover the British army entered the street corners throughout the city: forgotten history of Britain’s Mesopotamian fabled city of Baghdad, Our armies do not come into your venture, and see what lessons it holds cities and lands as conquerors or for the United States and its allies. ending four centuries of enemies but as liberators. Your sons Up Against ‘Johnny Turk’ have been carried off to wars not of Ottoman Turkish rule over Britain’s involvement in Mesopotamia your seeking, your wealth has been was driven by a combination of geo- Mesopotamia. Some stripped from you by unjust men and economic interest and geo-strategic squandered in different places…. It is concerns. Baghdadis came out to the hope and desire of the British people For Britain, Ottoman Mesopotamia … that the Arab race may rise once greet the battle-hardened held the promise of petroleum. Already, more to greatness and renown amongst in 1908, Britain had begun to exploit the British troops, shouting and the peoples of the earth. oil fields at Masjid-e Sulayman in Persia, cheering from streets, The British tried hard to live up to and there were strong indications that balconies and rooftops. their stated intention of improving the additional oil resources existed in the condition of Mesopotamia’s beleaguered vast region stretching from Basra to Many more waited population. Yet, within three years of Mosul. Britain, at this time, was Maude’s proclamation the country was building a fleet of oil-propelled big gun nervously behind closed plunged into chaos, as Shi‘ite clerics, battleships, and it was eager to gain doors, not knowing what to Sunni Arab nationalists and rural control of an independent supply of expect. tribesmen made common cause in an petroleum. Additionally, Britain had a

Déjà VuBy John Calvert, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History Photo by Bob Ervin

anti-British uprising that spread from long-standing interest in establishing a Basra and the shrine towns of Najaf and strong military and diplomatic presence Karbala, to Falluja and Tikrit. at Basra, a city that was important to In the decades that followed, the British communications with India. institutions of government that the When, at the outset of World War I, British created in Iraq sputtered and the Ottoman Empire joined with Germany collapsed, paving the way for a series of and Austria-Hungary against Britain, coups capped by the coming to power France and Russia, Britain saw an of Saddam Husayn in 1979. opportunity to secure these interests by The parallels between the British mounting a campaign in Mesopotamia. experience in Iraq and America’s ongoing In 1914 the British landed troops at efforts in that country are eerily similar. Basra and moved rapidly up the Tigris Then, as now, a great power intent on River toward Baghdad. At first, the Arab nation-building was met by the opposition conscript regiments of the Ottoman army Above: British troops enter Baghdad in 1917 of a population that did not accept the put up little resistance, allowing the in this image that was staged for the cameras. Below: An American soldier watches as a statue presence of foreign troops on its soil. As British to advance as far as Ctesiphon, of Saddam Husayn is toppled after coalition the United States turns sovereignty over the old Sassanid capital, just outside of forces entered Baghdad in 2003. to the Iraqi nation, it must understand Baghdad. However, the Ottomans

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entrenched along the Tigris. Like the American forces of 2003, the British encountered little or no resistance in Baghdad; in the face of superior firepower, the opposition melted away. What the British did encounter in Baghdad was a city in crisis. As was the case during the 2003 U.S.-led offensive, the hasty withdrawal of the enemy forces created a security vacuum, of which looters were quick to take advantage. A March 16, 1917, report from Britain’s Guardian newspaper could well have been filed in a recent edition of the New York Times or Washington Post: “Many shops had been gutted, and the valuables had all been cleared. The rabble was found busily engaged in dismantling the interiors, tearing down bits of wood and iron and carrying off bedsteads. They had even looted the seats from the public gardens.” The British were soon able to impose their authority over the city. In an effort to emphasize the demise of the Ottoman regime, Maude arranged for the 1st Division of the 4th Hampshire Regiment to re-enter the city for the purpose of a staged photograph. Eighty-six years later, the iconic statue of Saddam Husayn crashed to the ground for the benefit of cameras in a similar statement of conquest. Insurgents At the Paris Peace Conference following World War I, Britain met with its wartime allies to decide the fate of Mesopotamia and other regions of the vanquished Ottoman Empire. Acting on arrangements made with

Photo courtesy of the Imperial War Museum Photo courtesy of the Imperial War France in 1916, the British delegates Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Stanley Maude led British forces into Baghdad in 1917 proclaiming that they drew a line around the former Ottoman came not as “conquerors or enemies but as liberators.” provinces of Basra, which was predominately Shi’a Arab, and Baghdad, regrouped and by December 1915 Few survived the terrible ordeal. mostly Sunni Arab, and created the succeeded in bottling up the British forces The scale of the defeat, coupled with state, which, in 1921, was given the name at Kut al-Amara, an undistinguished town the atrocity of the death march, steeled “Iraq.” In 1925, the British attached the that lay in a loop on the Tigris River. the British resolve to succeed in oil-rich Kurdish region of Mosul to this For five months, the besieged British Mesopotamia. “Johnny Turk,” the entity. were subjected to bombardment and appellation given to the Ottoman At the same time, Britain and France attack until 13,000 men, beaten down by soldier by the British, was demonized as carved other states out of the debris of starvation and disease, surrendered on a caricature of the Muslim hordes that the empire. Palestine, Transjordan (today’s April 29, 1916. Receiving little or no for centuries had “pounded at the gates Jordan), Syria and Lebanon all came mercy from the victorious Ottoman of Christendom.” into being to satisfy the aspirations of minister of war, Enver Pasha, the Under the command of Lt. Gen. Maude, European colonialism. surviving British troops were force- a new, invigorated British army crept Bowing to this imperial will, the marched to prison camps in Anatolia. northward, attacking Ottoman forces League of Nations allowed London and

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Paris to administer these new states, provided that they prepare them politically and economically for eventual independence. As Arabs today are all too aware, the imposition of this postwar settlement flew in the face of a promise made by the British to the Hashimites of the Hijaz, a region in western Arabia. According to this promise, made in 1916, Britain would facilitate the establishment of an independent Arab state, stretching from Basra to Palestine, in return for a Hashimite rebellion against the Ottoman Sultan during World War I. The Hashimites fulfilled their side of the bargain; Bedouin irregulars protected British general Edmund Allenby’s right AP Rebours Photo/Laurent flank as he advanced from British- Iraqis push carts loaded with goods after looting a government warehouse near Baghdad in April controlled Egypt toward Damascus. 2003. Similar looting took place after the British offensive during World War I. Britain’s decision to instead divide the region with France was viewed by acted on assumptions and deferred to to build up the country were worthwhile. subsequent generations of Arabs as but entrenched models of imperial governance. Wilson was determined that Iraq be a one of numerous ill-intentioned actions Whereas the Americans would operate showpiece of enlightened British directed by Western nations against the according to fuzzy notions of the post- imperialism. However, from the peoples of the Middle East. Today, many World War II reconstruction in Germany perspective of Iraq’s diverse population, Arabs and Muslims view the current and Japan, Britain sought to emulate its the British administration was overbearing American activities in Iraq through the experience in India and Egypt, regarded and insensitive to Arab honor and Arab lens of this history of intrusion and then as examples of imperial success. aspirations to self-determination. double-dealing. Acting Civil Commissioner Arnold Each social grouping within Iraqi What were Britain’s intentions in Iraq? Wilson, who was the Edwardian society had its own set of grievances The Bush administration has been counterpart of the former U.S. proconsul and distinct vision of the post-Ottoman criticized for not following the “shock in Iraq, Paul Bremer, staffed the offices future. Ex-military men who had served and awe” invasion of 2003 with a well- of the occupation with British and the Ottomans chafed at their sudden considered plan for peace building and Anglo-Indian administrators. He imposed demotion and loss of status. Sunni Arab reconstruction. Like the Americans, the Indian-inspired civil and criminal codes nationalists, many of whom had British were also caught short in this and lectured Iraq’s diverse population participated in the Hashimite Arab regard. on the benefits of Western tutelage. Revolt, groaned at the prospect of the Rather than respond to the reality on Wilson convinced skeptics in London occupation’s continuation and yearned the ground, the British improvised, that the massive expenditures required for Mesopotamia to be integrated into Photo courtesy of the Imperial War Museum Photo courtesy of the Imperial War AP Photo/Denis Doyle British soldiers at Kut al-Amara during World War I, left, and on patrol in the same city in 2003.

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an independent, pan-Arab state. Tribal of poison gas on the revolting Iraqis, but ‘An Imperium of Strangers’ shaykhs resented Britain’s patronage of the British cabinet was reluctant to The scale of the revolt prompted the some tribes over others, and were sanction the use of a weapon that had British to reconsider their position in displeased at the occupation authority’s caused so much suffering during World Iraq. Bowing to the opinion of Arabists efficiency in collecting taxes. The Shi’ite War I. In the end, the British suppressed such as T.E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of clerics of the shrine towns emphasized the uprising at the cost of about 2,000 Arabia”), Gertrude Bell and Sir Percy the “infidel” nature of the occupation. British casualties and as many as 10,000 Cox, the British government decided to Their leader, Mirza Muhammad Taqi Iraqi dead. replace Arnold Wilson’s consulship with Shirazi, prefigured current Grand As Pentagon officials would claim in a system of indirect British rule under a Ayatollah Ali Sistani in demanding relation to the insurgency of 2003-2004, monarch and a Western-style parliament. clerical guidance over the affairs of state. British officials were quick to blame the Indirect rule, it was argued, would be Despite the differences among these unrest on “outside agitators,” in this less expensive — British taxpayers were groups, all were united in their odium case, “Bolsheviks.” It is true that foreign beginning to rail at the cost of the for the British occupation. Jihadists, such as the Jordanian terrorist occupation — and would be more The anti-British uprising began on Abu Mu’sab al-Zarqawi, contributed to palatable to the Iraqi population. June 2, 1920, and lasted until October of the violence of the recent insurgency. In In order to ensure that neither king that year. In the scorching heat of that so doing, they were joined by Baathist nor parliamentarians did anything to summer, tribesmen stormed British “dead enders,” including remnants of compromise British political and military posts, severed communication the “Fedayeen Saddam.” But what the commercial interests, British advisers links and assassinated British officials. British and after them the Americans would remain in the country. If things Shi’ite and Sunni townsmen glowered failed to understand was the grassroots ever did get out of hand, British army at patrolling British soldiers and source of the hostility they faced. and air force units would be on hand to harassed them in hit-and-run attacks. Ultimately, the uprisings were fed by enforce compliance. The new system British bodies were mutilated, just as strong emotions of humiliation, anger was meant to continue the British American bodies would decades later and resentment common to the imperium under cover of what was be desecrated at Falluja. The Sunni poet population as a whole. meant to appear as native rule. Muhammad Habib al-‘Ubaydi (d. 1963) The 2003-2004 insurgency has included, But the ground upon which the captured the almost messianic zeal of for example, young nationalistic Iraqis British built this new Iraqi government the insurgency: not necessarily associated with the Baath was less than solid, and it is here that Set the fire O you noble Iraqis Party, many of whom were hostile to America has the most to learn from the And wash the shame with flowing blood Saddam Husayn. To be sure, the uprising British experience. O you the people of Iraq, you are not slaves of 1920 lacked the nationalist overtones The man chosen by the British to sit To adorn your necks with collars characteristic of the recent anti-coalition on the throne in Baghdad was Faysal violence; in 1920, a strong, specifically Ibn Husayn. Faysal had no ostensible The British reacted to the insurgents Iraqi patriotism had yet to develop. connection with Mesopotamia; he was, with ruthless efficiency. RAF aircraft Nevertheless, like its contemporary in fact, a Hashimite prince from the strafed and bombed villages. One of the incarnation, the earlier uprising reflected Hijaz in Arabia. But he had been field British commanding officers asked the innate desire of a people not to be commander of the wartime Arab Revolt, London for permission to drop canisters dominated by foreigners. and for his services Britain felt obliged Photo courtesy of the Imperial War Museum Photo courtesy of the Imperial War AP Photo/Charles Dharapak Photo at left, Faysal Ibn Husayn, middle, was selected by the British government to lead Iraq after World War I. He was not well accepted by the Iraqi people. Will Iraq’s new interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, shown at right greeting President Bush, and whoever follows him find greater support among the Iraqi people?

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to award him with a kingdom, albeit the dictatorship of a man, Saddam the U.S.-led coalition during the Gulf one much smaller than Faysal and his Husayn, destined to be tagged with a War of 1990-91. Hashimite family had hoped for. $25 million price on his head. The Marines cleaned up and repaired In 1933, Faysal was succeeded on the In unseating the dictator, America has the cemetery, and in a ceremony throne by his son Ghazi, a playboy who wiped the slate clean in Iraq. It must not featuring bagpipes, Union Jacks and in 1939 died violently in an automobile make Britain’s mistake of granting Iraq’s Stars and Stripes, paid homage to the crash. Ghazi, in turn, was followed by interim government a hollow and sacrifices of fellow soldiers. It was not his infant son, Faysal II. uncertain sovereignty. Washington will lost on the Marines that the descendants None of the Hashimite monarchs was have to demonstrate that it is not pulling of the buried soldiers were allied with fully accepted by the people of Iraq. The all the strings from behind the scenes. the U.S. in the present campaign. people tended to regard their kings as As Johns Hopkins Professor Fouad Like the British before them, the U.S. foreigners and as British puppets who Ajami writes concerning America’s commanders were possessed of an controlled events in Iraq only in so far engagement with the Arab countries, “An exceptional sense of mission. Yet, had as those events did not encroach on imperium of strangers (Pax Americana) U.S. leaders considered more directly British interests. Iraq became technically could work only at the margins of a the earlier British experience, they might independent in 1932, but in the eyes of world so distant, so unsympathetic and have prepared themselves better for the the people, the sovereignty awarded the so dubious about America’s purposes.” pitfalls of military intervention in Iraq. country was an illusion. Britain continued They might also have learned that, to determine the shape of the country’s Dust of Empire after victory, comes the much more politics. The pro-Western orientation of We return to the town of Kut al-Amara, difficult task of winning the peace. the government was symbolized by where British forces suffered their Iraq’s signing in 1955 of the Baghdad catastrophic defeat at the hands of the About the author: John Calvert is an Pact, a British-sponsored regional Ottomans in 1916. In May 2003, U.S. assistant professor in Creighton's defense treaty meant to keep the Soviet Marines of the 2nd Expeditionary Brigade Department of History. He researches social Union out of the Middle East. Headquarters Group stumbled upon a protest and political resistance movements in It was only a matter of time before the graveyard at the edge of town, overgrown the modern Middle East and Southeast Asia, regime of king and parliamentarians with weeds and littered with trash. It especially radical Islamist ideology and toppled. In July 1958, Brig. ‘Abd al-Karim contained the broken tombstones of practice. His most recent publication is Qasim overthrew the monarchy in a British soldiers of the 6th Division who Sayyid Qutb, A Child from the Village bloody military coup d’etat. Scores of had died during the awful siege. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, people were killed, including Faysal II Here were the remains, both literal 2004), which he translated, edited and and his prime minister, Nuri al-Sa’id, and figurative, of a venture that had introduced with William Shepard. who was caught trying to escape much in common with the recent Baghdad as a veiled woman. The coup Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. For released the Iraqi State from the grip of decades, the cemetery was maintained British influence. At the same time, it by the people of Kut on behalf of the unleashed a flurry of nationalist passions British War Graves Commission. But in that, in the decades that followed, found 1991, Saddam Husayn turned it into a expression in ideological politics and in city dump to punish Britain for joining Photo courtesy of the Imperial War Museum Photo courtesy of the Imperial War AP Linsley Photo/Brennan At left, crosses mark the graves of British soldiers who were killed during the World War I battle for Kut al-Amara. The cemetery became a trash dump under Saddam Husayn before it was reclaimed and cleaned up by American and British forces in 2003, right.

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By Thomas M. Kelly, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Theology Director, M.A. in Ministry Program Coffee with Photo by Luke Witchger Photo by Luke Witchger

Left, Creighton student Michael Burt washes the feet of Casimiro, Esperanza and Luz prior to the students’ departure from Guarjila. Right, May graduate Anne Hodgson, left, with Salvadoran teenager Ana Marilú Chauarria.

As we walked through Elena, a friendly and energetic I found my answers in Esperanza. 17-year-old Salvadoran, was leading Esperanza, the mother of my host me and one of my Creighton students, family, welcomed Michael and me the streets of Guarjila, Michael Burt, to her house — which is warmly into her two-room (not where we would stay for the next five counting her outdoor “kitchen” and I still couldn’t believe days. Through streets both paved and wash area) home. unpaved, we passed small homes with She and her husband, Casimiro, were we were finally here tin roofs and no privacy. As the hot May caring, experienced and tired-looking sun began to set, it was difficult to see souls. Esperanza has the lines of years of much hope for the people of Guarjila. refugee life etched upon her face; … El Salvador. I was I had come to El Salvador with Maria Casimiro looked beaten down by the Teresa Gaston, director of Creighton’s milpa (a small farm on the side of a nervous. I had read so Center for Service and Justice, to co- mountain) that occupies his day from teach a course titled “Ecclesiology in sunup until late afternoon. Esperanza Context: The Church of El Salvador” for and Casimiro care for nine children much and taught so 12 Creighton students. under their roof, five natural children A significant part of the course was an and four “cousins.” While their lives much about this immersion component, where we had bear the history of being refugees in a an opportunity to engage students in country devastated by civil war, their experiential learning. Our goal was to hospitality was extraordinary. country and its have the students see and experience Two of Esperanza’s daughters, how people perceived the Church from Maria Jesus and Elena, belong to the suffering that to finally the perspective of poverty and suffering. Tamarindos, a faith-based youth group We wondered, “Would immersion that provides an alternative to the gangs be here was really make a difference? Is it possible and hopelessness that pervade the that we, as Christians living in a First village of Guarjila. Grounded in the World nation like the United States, Prayer of St. Francis — which begins, overwhelming. have forgotten the very meaning of the “Lord, make us instruments of your word ‘Church’?” peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow

36 Winter 2004 Coffee with Esperanza Esperanza Photo by Tom Kelly Photo by Tom Gaston Photo by Maria Teresa

Left, the mural on the side of this Catholic church in Aguilares reads: “And they will know the truth and the truth will set them free.” A Jesuit priest who had worked at the church was assassinated. Right, the Creighton group at the Rio Sumpul, site of a civilian massacre during the Salvadoran civil war.

love …” — Tamarindos offer a non- (13 including us). The kitchen was an assistance came from United Nations- violent response to the problems facing open-air fire in an adobe oven. The linked agencies and various churches their village. (The Tamarindo tree was dishes were cleaned and personal that delivered relief services. A step supposedly the first tree to grow back in bathing was done from a sort of trough outside the barbed-wire perimeter abundance after the civil war.) called a pila next to the oven. The only meant almost certain death. Their lives In Guarjila, unemployment is bathroom was an outhouse up and were confined to that prison for the next endemic, crime is on the rise and more behind her home. As Esperanza made eight years. and more young people are leaving for tortillas, she gave us the brief and I felt guilty that my government had the “north.” The Tamarindos — headed painful history of her family in El contributed to Esperanza’s oppression. by American missionary John Giuliano Salvador. The United States had given substantial and his wife, Maria Antonieta Albaran Esperanza and Casimiro were living military aid ($1 billion over 10 years) to — are essentially a youth group in Guarjila prior to the beginning of the a regime responsible for multiple committed to community, faith and Salvadoran civil war in 1979. The massacres and numerous documented service. John has emphasized the province where they lived was a human rights violations. importance of education for these stronghold of the guerillas who As Michael and I listened to young people, and now six Tamarindos opposed the government, and from Esperanza’s story, we were inspired by are attending university whereas before, whom the elections had been stolen in her continued hope and generosity in few ever finished high school. 1977. the face of suffering. Part of the community ministry of the Part of the U.S.-backed Salvadoran Her Church certainly had walked Tamarindo families is to house North government’s strategy in this region with her throughout the 12 years of civil Americans who come to try to was to defeat the opposition by de- war. Her archbishop was assassinated understand the life, the suffering and populating the provinces that supported for speaking out on behalf of the poor. the church of the poor of El Salvador. guerilla efforts. So, before they knew it, Many of the Jesuits of El Salvador, as And so we were welcomed in. Esperanza, Casimiro and their (at the well as other priests who spoke out Esperanza gave Michael and me the time) three children found themselves against government policies and tactics, largest bed in the house. And after we walking to a refugee camp in Honduras, were killed for daring to be voices for had settled in, we sat down to talk over some 20 to 30 miles away. They were the oppressed. coffee. I was struck by Esperanza’s forced to live in overcrowded conditions I wondered if my students realized poverty. Eleven people under one roof surrounded by barbed wire. Their only what they were seeing. Can we even

37 Winter 2004 Coffee with Esperanza Photo by Luke Witchger

From left, a view from a mountain overlooking Guarjila; a typical home in Guarjila; the author, Dr. Kelly, with Selena and Maria Jesus, daughters of Esperanza.

imagine a Church that would bleed for reflected on the role of suffering in are very poor. She replied that life us? That is what the Jesuits did. Esperanza’s life. How could she remain without community would be The Jesuits incarnated themselves into so positive, so forgiving, so hopeful? unbearable, and that she would prefer the lives of El Salvador’s poor. They Clearly her faith was quite real and her own material poverty to our analyzed the evil of the society, named it abiding. The Tamarindos had given her spiritual poverty. and responded to it with courage and children other choices than the gangs As I continually reflect upon what the compassion. They also were crucified and crime so rampant in El Salvador. class experienced, I try to grasp the for their prophetic voices. On Nov. 16, But we thought it was something else as enormity of what we have seen, heard, 1989, six Jesuit brothers and two women well — something more. The sense of experienced and witnessed. I know one co-workers were brutally murdered in community that Esperanza experienced thing for sure: I want this course to front of the rectory at the University of seemed to be the source of her strength. become an annual offering; the lessons Central America by members of the There was no sense at any time that she we have learned about the Church in El Salvadoran military. would or could “go it alone” as we Salvador are too valuable to forget. So why host North Americans? We might prefer to do in the U.S. There is something about immersing were, after all, the people connected to a Community was central to Esperanza’s oneself in a culture that goes far beyond government that perpetuated the life; she would have died without it. traditional learning. I think the central suffering in her country. Esperanza So why should Creighton students issue was the focus on relationships — wanted us to understand that while our participate in this class on the Church in of really being present and listening to government may not be popular in her El Salvador? What did they learn from the experience of another. country, Salvadorans could love and this experience of poverty and Because we weren’t busy “building forgive us North Americans. Her immersion in a Third World country? things” (others could do that better constant references to the grace of God I think they learned that a life without anyhow), we were able to focus on the were humbling to two visitors from a a real community is poverty indeed, reality and lives of those whom we culture that rarely understands God as a and that the truest form of community encountered. We listened to survivors of part of everyday life. Her hospitality is lived out as Church. At one point massacres, engaged people in was overwhelming, as she and her during our visit, I remarked to a young conversation, shared our perspectives husband gave up their own bed to two Salvadoran that materialistically we on life, participated in Church services, strangers. North Americans are very rich, but in toured parts of the country that were Later that night, Michael and I terms of a deep sense of community, we relevant to the civil war and continually

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Esquipulas When we “experience” knowledge, EL SALVADOR we really get it, because it means Nueva Ocotepeque GUATEMALA San Sebastián San Juan something to us personally. I would call Metapán this type of community-based learning Jutiapa Asunción La Palma HONDURAS Mita S u L. de m Güija pu EL SALVADOR “accompaniment.” To accompany La Reina l

Nueva Dulce Nombre Marcala another means to walk with them for a Candelaria de Concepción de María la Frontera Guarjila Lempa short time, to listen, to empathize, to Embalse Lempa San Pablo Cerrón GrandeChalatenango az Santa P Atiquizaya Ana Tacachico receive and not control, to be changed Suchitoto Victoria Perquín L. de San Juan Coatepeque Vol. de Ahuachapán Opico Guazapa To through an openness to the other and C Sensuntepeque ro U la Vol. de S Ilobasco C Carolina Sta. Ana A CABAÑAS T que their experiences. L e Polorós Á ep Cacaopera Izalco Armenia N ut oj Vol. de C Sesori San Salvador Santa Clara San Francisco What did my students learn? Sonsonate (Gotera) Nueva San n á San Salvador Salvador Vol. de San Vicente MORAZÁN r L. de San Vicente o Ultimately they learned that “Church” Nueva c Acajutla Ilopango Granada s LA LIBERTAD Pasaquina a LA PAZ o Zacatecoluca G is about a community that extends well Tecoluca Jucuapa Vol. de San Miguel National capital San Luis San Miguel La Libertad San Alejo beyond the walls of Sunday Mass or the Departmental capital Cuscatlán San Agustín Int'l Airport San Jorge Town, village Bahía a El Tránsito La Herradura p Usulután de rules of a particular faith. Major airport La Unión m guel e de San Mi International boundary L G ran d e La Departmental boundary Laguna de Unión They learned that the responsibility Olomega Pan American Highway P Isla Golfo enínsu la San B Conchagüita Main road Juan ah Chirilagua to enter into relationship with others, del G í ozo a Isla Railroad d Punta Meanguera e J iquilisco Amapala Where the names of the departments are the 010 20 30 40 km especially those who suffer, is not same as their capitals, only the capitals are de Fonseca named. . 0 10 20 30 mi simply a choice but an obligation. They learned that when one is a Guarjila is a rural village of about 3,000 people, mostly peasant farmers, located near the departmentalNICARAGUA capital of Chalatenango. member of a true community, one cannot but live with hope. strived for a better understanding of have seen massacres are not just the After all, that is what the name these people and this country. “victims” but Victoria and Rufina and Esperanza means — “hope.” When one enters into relationship Tomase. People who work for change For more information on Creighton’s with others, it is transformative. All of and integral development are not just immersion course in El Salvador, visit a sudden it is not just the “poor of El “missionaries” but John and Maria www.creighton.edu/ccsj/immersions/ Salvador,” it is Chele, Noemi, Tony, Antonieta, Fr. Cortina, Fr. Sobrino and elsalvador. Chamba, Yeleni, Elena. People who Fr. Brackley.

39 Winter 2004 Development News Scotts Continue to Support Creighton Morrison Stadium Dedicated Mirroring the philanthropic spirit of the Creighton family, Suzanne and Walter Scott Jr. will forever be known as two of Nebraska’s, and Creighton University’s, most generous benefactors. The Scotts’ long-term commitment to Creighton University was realized in the couple’s most recent gift of $10 million for capital projects. Their gift helped make the University’s dream of a soccer stadium come to life. Named after Creighton’s longest-serving Photo by Mark Romesser president and long-time friend of the Scotts, Left to right are Suzanne Scott, Fr. Schlegel, Walter Scott and Fr. Morrison at the dedication ceremony. The Scotts and Fr. Morrison were presented soccer balls signed by the coaches and players of the the Michael G. Morrison, S.J. Stadium was Creighton men’s and women’s soccer teams. dedicated on Oct. 15 between the women’s and men’s soccer games. Amidst the cheers in the life of our city. I am personally deeply and student support, and build 10 buildings of a lively crowd, the University thanked the grateful to the Scotts for their generosity and on the Creighton campus. Scotts for their continued support of the to Father Mike for the powerful legacy he “I would like to thank Walter and University. left here at Creighton,” said the Rev. John P. Suzanne Scott, and our other stadium “Michael Morrison always was a man for Schlegel, S.J., president of Creighton donors, and I am proud to have my name our students. Walter and Suzanne Scott University. associated with this beautiful facility,” said always have been people for the Omaha From 1981 to 2000, Fr. Morrison worked Fr. Morrison. community. Like them, the Michael G. with the Board of Directors to grow the Walter Scott, former CEO of Peter Kiewit Morrison, S.J. Stadium will play a vital role University’s endowment, increase faculty Sons, Inc., served on Creighton University’s

Gartlan Works Hard Bluejays fans should be proud of this magnificent facility,” Gartlan said. for CU Athletics The state-of-the-art Morrison Stadium When Creighton President the Rev. is part of the answer to the growing John P. Schlegel, S.J., arrived at the needs for campus recreation and University in 2000, one of his top beautification, needs realized by gifts and priorities was to have a soccer stadium pledges from donors such as Walter and built on campus. When learning of this Suzanne Scott, the Peter Kiewit goal, long-time Creighton athletics Foundation, Terry (BusAd’55) and Judy booster Ron Gartlan, BSBA’69, Haney, the Dave and Sandy Parker enthusiastically volunteered to help raise Family Foundation, Ron and Dee Gee funds for the new facility. Gartlan, William F. and Charlene Welsh Photo by Mark Romesser II, and Richard and Pam Berry. A member of Creighton’s Board of Gartlan at Morrison Stadium Directors since 1996, Gartlan serves or has “All of the donors who have made served on the Athletics Committee and Gartlan, president and CEO of gifts or pledges for the Michael G. the Student Life Committee. Godfather’s Pizza, joined the company in Morrison, S.J. Stadium have recognized “Ron was interested in improving the 1982 after working as a certified public that Creighton is on the move. Morrison energy and atmosphere on campus, accountant and audit partner with Coopers Stadium makes the campus a more especially during the fall, with activities and Lybrand. exciting place to live, learn and visit,” Fr. for students, faculty and staff, as well as “Creighton’s soccer teams have succeeded Schlegel said. “We also appreciate Ron community members,” said Bruce at the highest levels of NCAA Division I, and Gartlan’s support of our students and our Rasmussen, Creighton Athletics Director. now they have a home that matches their student-athletes who unify the many “His leadership and initiative helped stature. This is the finest collegiate soccer aspects of a Jesuit education focused on secure funding for Morrison Stadium.” stadium in the nation. Creighton and mind, body and spirit.”

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Board of Directors from 1980 to 2001. His Davis Square The partnership and pioneering vision of support, both personal and from the Kiewit these Omaha founding families continues Companies Foundations, helped build new Honors Pioneering today with the dedication of the new Davis buildings and renovate others. He served as Square student town homes. the Board’s chairman from January of 1990 Omahans “We are proud of what Creighton has to June of 1996, helping guide the University given, and continues to give, this through two successful capital campaigns When Thomas Davis first crossed the community and the world — graduates and in directing progress in campus and Missouri River on July 4, 1854, for an who are competent, conscientious and program development. Independence Day picnic in the untamed committed to justice and a better world for “I can think of no more fitting public Nebraska Territory, he had a vision of what all,” Lauritzen said. tribute to Mike Morrison than this,” said the future may hold for the fledgling Davis Square reflects the tremendous Walter Scott. “Father Morrison provided 19 frontier town on the river’s western banks. generosity of the Davis and Lauritzen years of visionary leadership to Creighton As one of Omaha’s first citizens, Davis families and First National Bank toward University. The Michael G. Morrison, S.J. established the town’s first sawmill and was Creighton University. Their most recent Stadium is an exceptional facility, improving support comes in the form of a the lives of Creighton students, Bluejays fans $3.5 million pledge to assist and the University’s neighbors.” Creighton with its historic In addition to the Scotts’ support of eastward campus expansion. Morrison Stadium, Creighton students also “The Davis and Lauritzen continue to benefit from endowed families have been at the heart scholarships provided by Walter and of the city’s progress, Suzanne Scott. In 1996, the Scotts pledged providing on-going support for $3 million for the creation of the Scott education, the arts and cultural Scholars Program in the College of Business centers,” said Creighton Administration that awards scholarships to President the Rev. John P. students of high academic standing. To date, Schlegel, S.J. “It is their vision 38 Creighton students have received the full- and commitment that has tuition scholarships, which are renewable helped build Omaha into the for all four years of college. dynamic city it is today.” Photo by Dave Weaver To recognize their leadership, Creighton The Davis and Lauritzen From left, Fr. Schlegel with Mrs. John R. Lauritzen and her son, University awarded its highest non- Bruce Lauritzen, and daughter, Ann Pape, after the Davis Square families and First National academic award, the Manresa Medal, to dedication ceremony. Bank were honored on Sept. 2 Walter and Suzanne Scott in 1998. At the — the occasion of the ceremony, Fr. Morrison recognized his an early investor in the creation of the first University’s 126th birthday — as Creighton friends by saying, “The Manresa Medal is “national” bank west of the Missouri River officially unveiled the Davis Square name presented to those who have the ability to in 1863. Through his investment, Thomas during a dedication ceremony. conceptualize community projects that have developed a relationship with another early Davis Square is located at 21st and a profound and enduring beneficence. Omaha visionary — Edward Creighton. Webster streets, not far from where Thomas Walter and Suzanne exemplify the type of Creighton, a pioneer in the development of Davis first visited in 1854 and within sight vision and generosity that characterizes the the transcontinental telegraph, was one of of the new 40-story First National Tower, spirit of Ignatius.” the bank’s founders and served as its first the state’s tallest building. With the completion of Morrison president. His wife, Mary Lucretia Davis Square is for Creighton upperclassmen. Stadium, Fr. Schlegel’s vision of eastward Creighton, would include in her will the Its 79 two-, three- and four-bedroom campus expansion continues to take shape. money to establish Creighton University. apartments house 258 students. “The success of Creighton University “The Davis and Creighton names are “Creighton University owes a great debt today is largely a result of the foundation entwined together in Omaha’s history,” said of gratitude to First National Bank for its laid by Walter Scott and Father Mike. We Bruce Lauritzen, who is the great-great- leadership, generosity and commitment to have built upon that foundation by planning grandson of Thomas Davis and the current our mission and to the students who come a living and learning environment for chairman of First National Bank of Omaha. to live and learn here,” Fr. Schlegel said. students, members of the Creighton Both Edward Creighton and his brother, It’s also a reminder of the past. community and members of the greater John, served as presidents of First National “As generations of students come to Omaha community,” Fr. Schlegel said. “And Bank, as have five generations of the Davis, Creighton to learn and live here, we hope with the support of Walter and Suzanne and later Lauritzen, progeny. Bruce that Davis Square will remind them about Scott, Creighton now enjoys one of the finest Lauritzen serves on Creighton’s Board of Omaha’s proud past and help launch them collegiate soccer facilities in the United Directors, a role once filled by his father, into bright futures,” Lauritzen said. States named after one of Creighton’s finest John, and his uncle, John Davis, both former presidents.” First National presidents.

41 Winter 2004 Development News Werner Family minimize the costs to both companies and the state and federal judicial system, which all Give Creighton taxpayers support, through the use of Pledges $4 Million alternative dispute techniques,” said Werner- Some Credit! Robertson. “With the Creighton name behind to Create Institute the Werner Institute, we have every Some Helpful Year-End Giving at Law School confidence that the business climate and in Tips When Making a Gift with turn the citizens of Omaha will be a Your Credit Card Chairman and CEO of Omaha’s Werner beneficiary of the important work that this Enterprises C.L. Werner made a $4 million institute will accomplish.” Year’s end is a popular time to give pledge to create the Werner Institute in The Creighton University School of Law to Creighton University and other Alternative Dispute Resolution at the will provide programs, conferences, seminars favorite charitable organizations. Gifts Creighton University School of Law. C.L. and private consultation services to businesses sent by mail are a time-tested method, Werner’s daughter, Gail Werner-Robertson, and corporations to teach the art of negotiation but now many donors are making their and mediation and explore ways to assist in year-end contributions with their credit the resolution of all categories of disputes, cards. particularly business-related issues. If you wish to make a year-end gift The Werner Institute’s program will include to Creighton with your credit card, please keep the following in mind: • To receive a 2004 charitable “The Werner Institute will contribution deduction, your bank must process your credit card gift by complement the Creighton Dec. 31. University School of Law • The University’s Mail Center closes from Dec. 24, 2004, through Jan. 3, Werner Werner-Robertson as an integral part of 2005. Charge authorizations received BA’84, JD’88, president and founder of GWR providing professional during this time may not be Wealth Management, LLC, also contributed to processed before Dec. 31. make the gift possible. Werner-Robertson legal education within the To ensure the University receives serves on the University’s Board of Directors. framework of a Jesuit your credit card gift in 2004: “The Werner Institute will make Creighton • Make your gift online at a national leader in alternative dispute university committed to a www.creighton.edu/development. The resolution,” said Patrick Borchers, dean of comprehensive and University accepts Visa, MasterCard Creighton’s School of Law. “By educating law and Discover. Gifts made through students, lawyers and non-lawyer professionals values-centered Creighton’s online site are in the ways of business dispute resolution, education.” immediately authorized by your Creighton Law School will enhance the quality account. of life for many persons and allow businesses — The Rev. John P. Schlegel, S.J. Mail all credit card authorizations no to thrive. The Werners have shown themselves Creighton president later than Dec. 15, if possible. again to be among Omaha’s most generous Call Creighton’s Office of and leading citizens.” Development at (402) 280-2740 or The Werner Institute will seek to find education for students enrolled in the School (800) 334-8794 to authorize your gift meaningful ways and alternatives to change of Law, continuing education for practicing by phone. the process of complaint resolution. It will attorneys and training for non-lawyer Please see “Year-End Giving help people to come together amicably to professionals. The Institute will be the first of Guidelines” on page 43 for a mediate their differences, saving time, money its kind in the region. comprehensive review of year-end gifts. and the psychological effects of going through “Creighton University, Dean Borchers and a trial process. the faculty of the law school are committed to “The Werner family is extremely pleased to making the Werner Institute truly a place of announce our enthusiastic support for the excellence with a nationally recognized Werner Institute in Alternative Dispute faculty,” said Creighton President the Rev. Resolution. We strongly believe in the John P. Schlegel, S.J. “We thank C.L. Werner entrepreneurial spirit and the benefits that and Gail Werner-Robertson for their landmark accrue to the community where businesses are gift that will be a service to businesses, embraced and nurtured. Although business attorneys and students.” Learn more about Creighton’s Alumni disputes are inevitable, there are ways to Visa card at www.cualumni.creighton.edu

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Venteichers Pledge community service. The Venteichers are Borchers, dean of the School of Law. “Our outstanding role models for service to others. Jesuit mission demands that we develop $1 Million for Endowed For generations to come, students will benefit men and women for others. By recognizing from their generosity.” the importance of legal ethics in this Scholarship The Venteicher Scholarship will support development, George and Susan have With a desire to assist students who second- and third-year students who have shown themselves to be committed to have a respect for the body of knowledge displayed high ethical standards and these ideals.” that makes up the study of law, George, George Venteicher is president and CEO JD’62, and Susan Venteicher, have pledged of KVI Associates, a commercial real estate $1 million to establish the George W., JD’62, development company in Omaha. and Susan J. Venteicher Endowed Originally from Carroll, Iowa, Venteicher Scholarship in the Creighton University moved to Omaha with his mother, Leone, School of Law. after his father died. It was his mother’s “The gift by George and Susan wish that Venteicher attend Creighton Venteicher will address our top goals for University. The reading room in the Law the School of Law: increasing quality, Library is named after Venteicher’s mother, strengthening our ability to compete for the and the Venteichers also funded the Rare most academically gifted students, George and Susan Venteicher Book Room at the law school. reducing student debt and promoting professionalism and who did not receive “Susan and I are excited to see students justice in the Jesuit tradition,” said scholarship aid upon entering law school. experience a Creighton education. Being Creighton President the Rev. John P. “The Venteicher scholarship is a wonderful able to help students is one of the most Schlegel, S.J. “That tradition also includes a gift that invests in our students and the future rewarding experiences we can have in life,” focus on professional ethics and of the Creighton Law School,” said Patrick said Venteicher.

Year-End Giving Guidelines Development by telephone at (402) 280-2740 stock powers sent by mail or private delivery or (800) 334-8794, or make your gift online at service fall under the rules already outlined By Steve Scholer, JD’79 www.creighton.edu/development. for gifts sent by mail. If you ask to have Director of Estate & Trust Services Gifts of stocks and mutual funds also are a shares you own reregistered in Creighton’s Year’s end is the time that many of us plan common way to benefit Creighton. Gifts of name, the gift is not complete until the our charitable giving to benefit our favorite appreciated stock owned for more than one reregistration is finalized on the organizations and to maximize our yearly year entitle you to deduct the fair market corporation’s records. Please call (402) 280- financial planning. The following are some value of the stock 2740 or (800) 334-8794 for the necessary guidelines to consider as you contemplate without having to forms and guidance on how to transfer stock your year-end gifts. Remember, only gifts report the capital and mutual funds to the University. completed by Dec. 31 can be used to reduce gains you would If you are interested in converting cash, your taxes due in April 2005. have realized had securities or land into a life income Gifts made by check continue to be the you sold the arrangement with Creighton, please call or most popular method of supporting investment. If stock write for a personalized proposal. Charitable Creighton. If you mail your check to you own has remainder trusts and gift annuities may be Creighton, your gift is considered complete decreased in value, ideal for individuals who want to explore as of the date of postmark. The IRS also has you should consider ways to increase their annual income, realize designated the following private delivery selling the stock and immediate income tax benefits and also services whose pickup date may be used in BA’83 Photo by Monte Kruse, giving the net make a deferred gift to the University. Scholer lieu of a postmark: Airborne Express, DHL proceeds as your All gifts to Creighton will receive a gift Worldwide Express, Federal Express and gift. Then, you may be able to claim a loss on letter and a formal receipt listing whether or United Parcel Service Air Services. the stock and also claim a charitable not you received “any goods or services” in More and more donors use their credit contribution deduction from the same exchange for your gift. Generally speaking, cards to donate to Creighton. Please note that transaction. the IRS requires this receipt as proof of your credit card gifts are complete only when the For securities electronically transferred tax deductible contribution for all gifts of transaction is authorized by your bank. If from your account to Creighton’s, your gift is $250 or greater. you mail to Creighton your signed complete and valued on the date it reaches On behalf of the students, faculty and staff authorization to charge your gift to your the University’s account. Gifts of stock of Creighton University, thank you for your credit card, please make sure that your letter certificates that are hand-delivered to continued spirit of philanthropy and willing is postmarked no later than Dec. 15. After Creighton are complete on the date of partnership in our mission. Your gifts are the 15th, please contact the Office of delivery; stock certificates and necessary making a real difference.

43 Winter 2004 Un-wiredCREIGHTON Creighton University was recognized this year by Intel Corp. as one of the country’s best campuses for wireless computing access for students. Today’s Creighton student arrives on campus with an ever-widening array of the latest in technology. Here’s a sampling: Sony Headphones Connected to MP3 Player Brings excellent sound quality from any type of music player. LG Camera Phone Allows students to take and send pictures with their phone. Bluetooth Enabled Ear Bud Students can carry on phone conversations HP IPAQ 4155 (Pocket PC) hands-free with this wireless earpiece. Serves as an organization/media device with calendar options, contact list, e-mail, Internet and video streaming capabilities.

Motorola T720 Cell Phone Logitech Bluetooth Optical Mouse Allows students to stay connected A wireless mouse, incorporating Bluetooth to family and friends regardless of technology and a user-friendly connection service area. interface that allows for straightforward setup and use.

Gateway M275 Tablet PC/Notebook Convertible The ultimate in mobile computing; a fully functional laptop that allows students to write Acer TravelMate C302XMi-G notes directly onto the screen or take notes via (Tablet PC/Notebook Convertible) voice recognition. A fully functional laptop that allows students to write notes Hitachi G1000 Pocket PC/Cell Phone directly onto the screen or take The ultimate in mobile communication, the G1000 notes via voice recognition. is essentially a Pocket PC with phone capabilities. Users can surf the Internet, send and receive e-mail, and upload and share photos taken with Lexar USB Jump Drive the G1000’s integrated digital camera. Allows students to transfer data on a secure digital storage card to another device via USB Logitech Bluetooth Media Pad by plugging the card into the jump drive. A wireless solution for storing music, movies or other media on a PC; works with Outlook and Precise 100 PC-Card Biometric Fingerprint Scanner SANDISK 256 MB USB Flash Drive MSN e-mail services to notify users of incoming Scans fingerprint for PC login; the highest level of Allows students to securely store and e-mail. security currently affordable to the average consumer. transport their data with almost no potential data loss. Acer Smart Card Belkin USB Hub For use with the Acer TravelMate C302XMi-G and This device gives users seven additional USB ports for other Smart Card readers; students can use these desktop use; its two top-loading ports allow for easy secure cards to store important data such as bank USB Flash Drive plug-ins. account information or identification and medical information. Linksys 802.11b/g Cable Gateway/Wireless Router The latest network connection device from Linksys; plug it in and connect to a cable line for high-speed wireless Internet capabilities for up to 32 users.

Pictured, from left, Creighton students Sarah Castenada, David Black and Clarisse Kobashigawa. Photo by Mike Kleveter Online Exclusive Divine Light

In a bouquet of hues, lights and darks, shadows and sun-splashed colors, the stained-glass windows of Creighton’s venerable St. John’s Church tell many stories. They tell a story of a church, consecrated in 1888, that grew with its community — expanding in the 1920s and undergoing major renovation in the late 1940s, when the original, plain, amber-colored panes were replaced with the present colorful stained glass. They tell a story of Scriptural events, meant to be “read” like the sacred texts themselves. And they tell a story of Creighton’s Jesuit heritage, with pictorial references to the history and teachings of the religious order of St. Ignatius. Creighton University Magazine sheds more light on these rich and colorful stories in its online exclusive: “Divine Light: The Windows of St. John’s.” Read it today at

Photo by Monte Kruse, BA’83 Photo by Monte Kruse, www.creightonmagazine.org.