John Carroll University Carroll Collected The aC rroll News Student 10-16-1985 The aC rroll News- Vol. 72, No. 7 John Carroll University Follow this and additional works at: http://collected.jcu.edu/carrollnews Recommended Citation John Carroll University, "The aC rroll News- Vol. 72, No. 7" (1985). The Carroll News. 743. http://collected.jcu.edu/carrollnews/743 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student at Carroll Collected. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aC rroll News by an authorized administrator of Carroll Collected. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE CARROLL NEWS Serving John Carroll University Vol. 72, No. 7 John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio 44118 October 16.!. 1985 O'Nelll gift clears way for .chapel A one million dollar gift rather a "dedicated liturgical the gift in August, is the Transportation and at the had been educated at Cam­ from Mrs. F.J. O'Neill and the space". according to Fr. T.P. widow of F.J. O'Neill who died time of his death was prin­ pion College in Wisconsin and F.J. O'Neill Charitable Cor­ O'Malley, university presi­ in 1983 at the age of 83. He cipal owner of the Cleveland the old Loyola High School in poration has made it possible dent. was the founder of Leaseway Indians baseball team. He Cleveland. for the university to proceed Designing the chapel is with plans for a new chapel. Peter van Dijk. the architect The chapel. which will seat who designed both the about 350, will be named Recplex and the renovation of after St. Francis Xavier, the the SAC Building. "We're Jesuit missionary, and will talking about starting con­ honor the memory of Francis struction in the summer of J. "Steve" O'Neill. 1986 and finishing by the end The chapel will be built on of the year.·· said Paul Kantz, the site of the present chapel Vice-President for Develop­ and the Jardine Room. but ment. whether it will be a renova­ tion or a completely new The new facility will be part structure is still undecided. of the Fritzsche Religious The new chapel will not be Center and will also house a multi-use facility such as the Campus Ministry offices. Jardine Room is now, but Mrs. F.J. O'Neill, who gave Academic Senate reconsiders shuffle by John Jesltus, Management Program, was Staff Reporter held to discuss progress JCU's Academic Senate met reports prepared by three \eta. Psi dr• te ciiecuae a .pm-. posal which would, if passed, s•awJ.iJ;wto studY YQPi\WiJ!wthe Issue. U&oii~W~d.. "'1;i~~~~=m~=r:~=~=B convert the Senate to a facul­ The Academic Senate, cur­ here last Sunday. photo by Beth Bonanno ty forum. rently composed of repre­ Currently comprised of ad­ sentatives from the students, ministrators. students, and the administration, and the faculty, the Academic Senate faculty, makes recommen­ Weekend caters to parents has been considering such a dations to the president con­ by Dan Polletta vides parents an opportunity people that they are only restructuring for the past few cerning policy-making Too often the only time to interact with their son or familiar with through conver­ years. Two years ago a decisions. parents see the university is daughter in the university set­ sation. Parents' Weekend similar proposal was narrow­ The Academic Senate will when they move their son or ling," said Parents' Associa­ Director Molly Sweeney said: ly defeated, and last spring meet next on November 8 at daughter in and out of the lion Director Patricia Cusick. "Since we are all from dif­ deliberations resumed. 3:00 p.m. to further review dorm. The weekend also enables ferent cities, Parents' Many faculty members at the proposal. "Parents' Weekend pro- all parties involved to meet Weekend is the only time we that time favored restructur­ can get aU our friends and ins the Senate because they parents together to meet each felt that it did not adequately other." represent their concerns and Lecturer to speak on authors Both Sweeney and Parents' because most other schools by Jolm Jesitus, tion." bas been misread. Weekend Director Joanna have some form of faculty­ Stoff Beporter His presentation begins at He relates East of Eden to Stauff emphasized that there ooly committee. Robert DeMott, distinguish­ 9:30 a.m. in Grasselli its author's comment. .. A are no orphans this weekend. Some adm.inistrators and ed Professor of English at Library's Mackin Lecture good writer always works at Stauff said: "Even if a stu­ students, however, stated last Ohio University, will on Room, and admission is free. the impossible" ca1ling It a dent's parents aren't romiog, spring that they wished to ~ DeMott took his M.A. in Thursday, October 17 deliver "bold and chalienging depar- 1 we'd l~e. to mx:ourage them mam active in the university's his lecture "Working at the English here and his Ph.D. at ture" from conventional fie- to partiCJpBte m the week­ decision-malring process. Impossible: Steinbeck. Mel­ Kent State. Besides having lion of the 1950's for its end's activities." Last week's meeting, states ville and the American edited a concordance to the digressive narration and its A busy schedule of events Dr. Alan Post of JCU's Romantic Tradition in Fie- poetry of Hart Crane, he has romantic portrayal of has been planned to keep both for the past several years Southern California. DeMott parents and students enter­ directed the Steinbeck contends that Steinbeck tained and informed this Research Center at San Jose created a romance in the weekend. For further infor­ State University. tradition of Melville's Moby mation on events, see page Regarding his critical Dick. four. outlook. Dr. James Magner of JCU's English department states that DeMott values art not for its sheer technical The Sounds beauty, but rather for its "evidence of the organic pro­ cess of life." of Music DeMott's lecture features The University Chorale will hold a "Concert his interpretation of Stein­ beck's novel East of Eden, a on the Quad" Thursday at noon. work which DeMott claims .... 2 EDITORIAL The CarroD News, October 16, 1985 tile :Otllc.t /lt~u.:oJ~ · r~k AI<~AY 11ir Midter111 Scheduling H~/!A.S~f ~~ANb IllS CA8Lc (V• . Now'that midterm week is upon us here at John Carroll, - ---- and most of the students have already fmished their exams, it's time to tey and make 90me sense of the whole ordeal. Last Friday was a reading day, and the student body was supposed to use it to prepare for their upcoming examinations. But not many did In fact, most of the resident students aban­ doned campus and went home for a Ions weekend. There are two reasons for this. In the first place, most of the students who left had already finished their tests. It was as though all the professors have decided not to overtax their students and thus set their exam dates for the week before midterms. Certainly, the students appreciated the faculty's display 085EBV"' T'~N. ~~~' ssms of human compassion as the first test was announced early. But as all their midterms began to pile up, it seemed ridiculous to even bother scheduling a midterm week. Why grant the ~ students a reading day after their exams? This leads us to the second reason everyone left last weekend. Perhaps the administration here was in collusion with the faculty and hoped to turn this year's reading day in­ to the elusive midterm break that some people mutter about Classroom space needed when the workload gets too heavy in early November. With the advent of the floor of the Ad building, and beneath Kulas Auditorium A midterm break is needed by the student body; the stretch Recplex. quite a lot of the Military Science Depart­ and turning the basement into from early September to the end of November is just too long changes have occured on ment is soon to follow. All classrooms? Concentrating for any sane person. Anyone observing the campus for the first campus. In fact. a few of them these vacancies lead to a faculty offices around the three weekends in October will agree. Most of the students are going on right now. major question: what is to be perimeter of the area would have either been home one of these past two weekends. or have The Alumni office has done with the space? free the center for three or plans to do so this upcoming weekend, whether or not they moved from its former home The University has left this four classrooms. have the time. in the administrative wing of question up to a Space Com­ The university has shown The problems with midterm scheduling are fodder for the the Ad building to the upper mittee composed of Fr. its renovative ability in the Academic Senate. A formal university policy should be devis­ level of the Recplex. vacating Lavelle. Mr. Schaefer of the SAC building and this skill is ed to make midterm reading days valuable to the students. and a large central room, seven Business office, and Mr. ReaLi desperately needed in order not ones to idJy waste. Three or four vacation days should be offices and a broom closet. of Physical Plant. to best utilize the recently vacated space and to solve moved from Christmas break and centered around a mjd­ The development office has There a re two prioJlities in October weekend.