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KSOM starts new program Vows of the Jesuits Anxious MC Students learn new skills How the values of the Jesuits The rapper visited The through “Primer” Program. (10) influence The University. (13) University Monday. (8) Volume 83, Issue 2 The Student Voice of The University of Scranton September 16, 2010 Mulberry Project takes off Selecting The University’s BY CONOR FOLEY Editor-in-Chief next president University officials gathered BY OLIVER strickland Tuesday to break ground on a new Staff Writer Mulberry Street apartment and fit- ness complex. The recent announce- The $33 million project will bring ment of current president a dining facility and a convenience Fr. Scott Pilarz taking on a store to the former site of Aroma new mission leaves a big Cafe, in addition to 400 junior and role to fill on campus. With senior beds and a 14,000 square- the vacancy effective Fall foot fitness center on the ground semester 2011, many people floor. on campus are left wonder- “This is a very exciting day not ing how the next president just for The University, but also for will be selected. the city of Scranton,” Christopher “The President is appoint- M. Condron, chair of The Univer- ed by the Board of Trustees sity’s board of trustees, said. “It’s and serves at the pleasure state-of-the-art dormitory living of that board. In selecting that we’re creating on this cam- a president, the Board of pus.” Trustees shall be assisted The complex is the fourth an- by a search committee,” ac- nounced building project of the cording to the faculty hand- $125-million “Pride, Passion and book. Promise” campaign launched in The search committee 2008. JESSICA ROTHCHILD / PHOTO EDITOR mentioned in the selection “This place will serve the grow- UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS ceremoniously break ground at the future site of the Mulberry Street process consists of four ing demand for university housing complex. members nominated by the among juniors and seniors, and our Board of Trustees and three need for expanded fitness space,” created over 1,000 jobs in the city students. The search com- The University President, the Rev. of Scranton. mittee has no part in final Scott Pilarz, S.J., said. “The Univer- “[Those jobs] are even more im- selection of the next presi- sity guarantees four consecutive portant than they could have been dent. The role of the search years of housing for students, and in the past,” Condron said. “So as a committee is to recommend an ever increasing percentage of university, we’re very proud of the to the Board of Trustees our students want to live in uni- improvement that we’re making to the best candidate found versity housing.” our campus and the improvements through their nation-wide The project will also create 367 that we’re making to this city.” search. temporary construction-phase jobs COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY “This building is going to be a Then, the Board of Trust- for Scranton residents and several ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS were on display at the Sept. 14 keystone in that beautification ees then takes the search permanent maintenance jobs upon cermony. project,” Condron said. committees’ final recommen- its completion. Condron said that, around the same time as the sci- na,” Rita DiLeo, president of stu- No exact date was given for the dation into consideration combined with the number of peo- ence center. dent government, said. “I already completion of the apartment and and makes a final decision ple working on the science center “I’m a senior this year and next know that I will be making plans fitness complex, but the Rev. Pi- with all of the candidates construction, The University has year at this time I will be an alum- to come back.” larz said that it will open its doors in consideration. Once the Board of Trustees comes to an agreement, a new presi- dent will be announced. Students on campus are Interdependence Day a success hopeful that the next presi- BY JILLIAN RUGGIERE ence in a conversation concern- address “Citizens without Bor- dent fills the big expecta- Staff Writer ing the reality that people and ders.” Referring to herself as tions left behind by Fr. Pi- countries are inextricably linked a “proud American,” Matynia larz. and dependent on one another. stressed the need for Ameri- “I would like to see our The Greater Scranton Interde- The speakers stressed that this cans to come together as a new president to be ex- pendence Day Committee and concept, known as Interdepen- collective whole in order to ceptionally personable and the United Way of Lackawanna dence, is visible in almost every become active members of a work to have a relationship and Wayne Counties celebrated aspect of life in the 21st cen- global democracy. with students like Fr. Pilarz Interdependence Day Monday tury. “Every nation plays an in- did throughout his seven ,Sept. 13 at the William J. Nealon Senior Fellow for Internation- strument in the great orchestra year presidency,” sophomore Federal Building and U.S. Court- al, Civic and Cultural Projects at of humanity, where it is impos- senator Meredith Lubas said, house. the University and Co-Founder sible to be a soloist,” she said. when asked what she desired In recognition of Interdepen- of the Interdependence Project, COURTESY OF IDAYSCRANTON.ORG “They key to interdepen- in the next president. dence Day, members of The Sondra Myers urged the audi- THE EMBLEM of Interdependence dence is initiating conver- Much like senator Lubas, University community, along ence to become “active citizens Day shows the program’s goal of sation,” Matynia said. “The many of the Scranton stu- with various organizations and beyond borders that the world working together for the common recognition of merits of other dent body is looking for people from northeastern Penn- so desperately needs.” She ex- good. countries among us can only much of the same in the sylvania attended a ceremony pressed the need for Americans occur through a voluntary pro- next president. and reception commemorating to become “soldiers of peace” these values, the key to carry- cess. People must willingly talk Unfortunately, no search the holiday. and reminded us that our voices, ing out our civic responsibility and get to know each other a committee has been an- The first Interdependence heard and read throughout the is endorsing these values by ex- little better in order to extend nounced yet and no time- Day celebrations were held in world, should be used to make tending our services to people reciprocity and trust beyond line has been publicly set Philadelphia at the American a difference. in other countries. In sharing national communities.” for exactly when the Board Philosophical Society Sept. 12, Myers stressed that as Ameri- a common goal known as the The ceremony also recog- of Trustees expects to have 2003. In observance of the hor- cans we each have a civic re- common good, we will enhance nized medical support and a new president selected. In rific events of 9/11, Interdepen- sponsibility, defined as an obli- the public good. efforts of The United Way of the coming weeks, the board dence Day serves as a symbol gation to maintain democratic Director of Transregional Lackawanna and Wayne Coun- is expected to name a search of regeneration in the United values such as equality, freedom Center for Democratic Studies ties following the earthquake committee and begin the States, as well as all over the and justice. Myers touched on at The New School for Social in Haiti. process of finding the best world. the fact that, while it is impor- Research, Elzbieta Matynia fur- For more information on In- candidate to fill the position Throughout the ceremony, tant to build and maintain mem- ther discussed the concept of terdependence Day, visit www. occupied by priests for the the speakers engaged the audi- bers of our society who uphold Interdependence in her keynote interdependence daynepa.org. past sixty-eight years. 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