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Seattle nivU ersity ScholarWorks @ SeattleU The peS ctator 11-26-1975 Spectator 1975-11-26 Editors of The pS ectator Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/spectator Recommended Citation Editors of The peS ctator, "Spectator 1975-11-26" (1975). The Spectator. 1485. http://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/spectator/1485 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks @ SeattleU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The peS ctator by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ SeattleU. SEATTLE Seat one invalid; Spectator re-election set Senate seatoneelectionresults scheduled for Jan. 13. Rich are being contested by Leonard Morse and Young only will be Young,a candidate forthatposi- allowed to run in this election. UNIVERSITY tion, on the grounds that the Theresults of theelection are:— Vol. XLIV, No. 10 Wednesday Nov. 26. 1975, Seattle Washington election for senate seat one was senate seat one, Rich— Morse unfair. 134, Chris Bohan 31; senate Bob Casey, ASSU first vice seate two, Maria Sullivan— ls3 Effective May: president,said that there was no (unopposed);— senate seat three,— doubt in his mind as to the Tim Brown 98,Dave Wilson unfairness of the election in 68; senate seat four, Dirk resigns regard to position number one. Bartram— 97, Paul Routt— 62; Fine arts founder YOUNG filed a complaint freshman class president,Randy by Timothy Brown Gallucci informing himhe was resigningand with the ASSU judicial board Alfaro, 109 (unopposed). Dr.Joseph J.Gallucci,professorof music that no reason was given. requesting the election results be A constitutional amendment and fine arts and founder of the fine arts declared void. Youngsaid hewas proposingthat the senate vote to "YOU REALIZE that people make these president's department as it is now constituted, has not informed that the day for override the veto be decisions,"Ryan accepted theresigna- sign-up had been extended from changed to two-thirds of the resigned effective the end of this year. His said. "I tion and wished him well." Nov. 14 to Nov. 17. quorum of senators present at resignation was offered to The Very Rev. senate met James Powers,S.J.,dean of the College The judicial board has ruled the meeting approval Edmund G. Ryan, S.J., S.U. president, of the senate seat one election in- with the200 students that voted, Arts and Sciences, said that he received no Gallucci stated that reasons for his valid and a re-election has been 105 to 36. copyof the resignation and did not feel that it resignation were largely ones of incom- was his business to look into the matter. "I patibility withpresentpractices in the finearts respect his decision,"he department and the College of Arts and said. William Dore, chairman of the fine arts Moore resignation Sciences. department,saidhe had nocommentto make general say "I think in Icould without on the matter. betraying confidences that the reasons for the resignation were Ifound that the practices "I WOULD stillbe interested in teaching effective Dec. 31 Moore, "Since it is and procedures of the department next year," he stated, "but the situation is a Michael R. vice presi- the position. a fine arts dent for finance andbusinesshas national search,wemayconsider and the College of Arts andSciences werejust verydifficult one inthe academic world now.I resignedto acceptaposition with as many as 150 dossiers," Ryan incompatible with my own standards of suppose that's why it's so rare for someone a financial consulting firm, The said. morality and of professional conduct," he who had tenure to be resigning. IfIweretogo Very Rev. Edmund G. Ryan, Ryan S.J., president, Moore and have signed said. somewhere else,Icouldn't expect togo witha S.U. announced a joint statement on the resigna- full professorship,even assuming there werea last week. tion, Ryan said. Moore's resignation is effec- "Our GALLUCCI was reluctant to be more job available in the arts." 31, relationship is quiteamiable and tive Dec. but a personwillbe friendly," he said. specific about the reasons forhis resignation. On the one hand, that's a reason for not appointed to complete thenearly The issues are very complicated and involve resigning, he pointed out. "But Ijustdidn't finalized University budget, Appointed inSeptember1974, manypeople that George Benan,director ofpublic Moore replaced William C. so it would bedifficult toget want to continue in a job where Idid notfeel relations, description, think Iwould that there was for what I said. Adkisson as vice president for a fair he said. "I support amtryingto finance and business. Moorehad want the chairman of thedepartment andthe accomplish, and since the procedures were ASEARCHcommittee willbe previously served ascomptroller dean of arts and sciences to be able to give not at all in accord with the kinds of things formed toscreenapplications for for Seattle public schools. their views of it,also," he said. that I'm interested in,the kinds ofthings that I've learned to respect," he said. GALLUCCI submitted a resignation to "I've always had a magnificent here," Inside: Ryan because "It seemed to me that there relationship with the students he said. Turkeys cook their goose Page 3 were very few chances of changing anything. "I was a student here myself. Ithink I've University professors If it were a case in which one couldappeal to enjoyed a measure of success asa teacher and discuss higher authority or higher up and could I've enjoyed working with the students very teaching morals Page 4 expect that somechangescouldbe made, then much. John Kay of Steppenwolf talks Isuppose that Iwould have gonethrough the Gallucci said he is very grateful to the about making it Page 6 regular channels. students and faculty here who have made Changes at Connolly Center explained Page 7 Ryan stated that he received a letter from efforts on his behalf. Students experience Jewish life, 'anti-semitism by Joe Guppy disturbing to the students than that a close relationship was bigot?" he said. Blackburn said. "At first when I "In a certain sense, it was an the blatant. The blatant anti- threatened when sheannounced Nancy Roux said that she went into it Ithought it was attempt to climb into the skinof semitismis somethingpeoplecan she was thinking of converting. encountered some difficulty going to build up my own faith the Jew and see both the positive cope with." from the Jewish side. and all that. But then Ifound out aspectsfor being a Jew andsome "THE PERSECUTION Ien- "When I put on a star of about all the corruption in the of the aspects that are not too ALBERT STALKER, one of countered was not deep-seated David, some of the Jews that I history and present actionof the pleasant," Rabbi Arthur J. two class members who is hate but ignoranceand fear that know felt they could say Roman Catholic Church." Jacobovitz, S.U. theology Jewish, told of a blatant act of one's religion was being anything they wanted about my She said the Pope Pius XII teacher, said. anti-semitism. An Arab student threatened," she concluded. own faith, as if it was a license," refused to help Jews leave Ger- For two weeks this quarter, ripped a star of David off his Blackburn said"Fromsomeof she said. "And Ifound thisreally many during World War IIand members of Jacobovitz' Jewish neck, he said. later assisted someNaziescapes. theology class lived as modified "He was waiting for retalia- Today, the Vatican does not Orthodox Jews. They kept the tion," Stalker said. "I couldn't recognize the state of Israel,she Sabbath, wore yarmulkes get over the pettiness of the act helped said. (skullcaps) and stars of David, and Irefused to put myselfdown "It me become more sensitive to what Roux said, "I was criticizing ate kosher foods and toldfriends to that level. Ijust walkedaway. It Is to be Jewish, what itIs to be different." my faith so that Icould unders- and acquaintances they were "I don't see why those tand it better and work with it converting to Judaism. differences should cause people better.1learnedbad thingsabout not to get along together, es- Christianity, but that helped. THE PROJECT was first pecially on a campus like this," Youcan't be ignorant of that." proposed in 1969 by one of he added. my closest friends who are very painful, because Ididn't want to Jacobovitz'classes and has been zealous Christians, Igot some defendmyself because Iwasreal- JACOBOVITZ said that the done off and on since. MARY ERICKSON stated really negative feedback. And it ly trying to live as a Jew." students who do the project are "Partof thereason Iwanted to that shehad trouble whenasking upset me me because Ifelt their often surprised by the "warmth" do the project was that Iwanted about kosher food at the attitude wasvery parental. They NOT ALL the reaction was of Jewish law. to prove the rabbi wrongabout restaurant at which she worked. would not allow for the possibili- bad. Roux said that her family "They expect the law to be anti-semitism," said Maureen A fellow worker blew up at her ty of me beingin my right mind accepted the project well and somethingthat is very cold,very Blackburn, a member of the one day and said what she was and choosing something else." even asked her to say grace in demanding, and very removed class. "But it didn't happen that doing was "ridiculous and She added that she couldn't Hebrew before meals. All the from the 20th century. But they way." stupid," she said. sayif that reaction was theresult students indicated that a lot of find the law creating a Sabbath Class members experienceda At one point during the pro- of anti-semitism or evangelical the reaction was sympathetic.

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