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Regis University ePublications at Regis University Regis Alumni Publications Archives and Special Collections 12-1991 Regis University Magazine Vol 1 No 2 Winter, 1991 Follow this and additional works at: https://epublications.regis.edu/roundup Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, and the Education Commons Recommended Citation "Regis University Magazine Vol 1 No 2 Winter, 1991" (1991). Regis Alumni Publications. 110. https://epublications.regis.edu/roundup/110 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at ePublications at Regis University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Regis Alumni Publications by an authorized administrator of ePublications at Regis University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CONTENTS .................... 3 modem languages, community as the Faculty Lecturer of RE0IS UN IVE RSITY•MAGAZI N E David M. Clarke, S.J. President ................................................... 4 Robert L. Schmitz, '73 ~t global chatiges in the past few Vice President for Development and drthow those shlits affected Public Affairs Paul Brocker Director of Public Affairs Lisa C. Rogers, '87 ......................................................... ? Editor Jeff Sheppard, '90 Director of Publications Judy Hewgley, Becky Zachmeier, Alicia Swanson, '92 Production Assistants REGIS UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE is published four times a year by the ......................................................... 10 Office of Public Affairs at Regis Uni­ versity, 3333 Regis Boulevard, Den­ omen's basketball schedule ver, Colorado 80221. It is the official director of sports information, looks news magazine of Regis University. ' 91.-92 basketball season Regis University is one of 28 Jesuit institutions of higher education in the United States. The University serves more than 1,100 students in its four­ year program on the main Denver campus, while its undergraduate and graduate degree programs for adults serve more than 7,600 students in Boulder, Denver, Loveland, Colorado Springs and Sterling, Colorado and Cheyenne and Gillette, Wyoming. ~·:: .... ;' ...............t ............................. 13 About the cover: On September 27, 1991, Regis celebrated its historic change to university status. Over 800 people attended the festivities, culmi­ nating in a spectacular fireworks dis­ ............................... : ...................... 14 play over Carroll Hall. 2 PERSPECTIVE "Yes, Sam, I Can Imagine '' by Dr. Deborah Gaensbauer The following is an excerpt from the exponent, was fundamentally prohibit to "mad men," and keep safely conclusion to an address entitled " Yes, suspicious of the play of the in the circus. Sam, I Can Imagine," given on Septem­ imagination. Sartre, who made what At the end of The Wake of ber 20, 1991, by Dr. Deborah seems to me the grave Imagination, Richard Gaensbauer, professor of mode rn mistake of dismissing Kearney quotes from a languages, who was the recipient of the the possibility for 1986 Manifesto that 1991 Regis College Faculty Lecturer of freedom (not to characterizes our rhe Year award. Th e ralk was introduced mention happiness disillusioned Post­ I as an homage to rhe late Irish playwright which he didn't seem modern society as I and novelist Samuel Beckett, as a rejlec­ to believe in) in "paralyzed by the rion of Dr. Gaensbauer's current re­ activities that "don't performance... we I search on su rrealism, and, finally, as "a count" on a utilitarian cannot leave the plea for paying more attention ro nour­ scale, spends a good theatre. All the exits I ishing imaginarive suppleness and for portion of his long are blocked." I agree exploration of rhe domain of individual essay What is with the notion of the I difference" as Regis College of Regis Literature? attacking paralysis, but I think I University continues its dialogue on the the surrealists for Dr. Deborah Gaensbauer one has to recognize new core. refusing to distinguish that the performance I between the real and the imaginary that paralyzes us is not taking place on and also for what he referred to as their a familiar stage as this metaphor 1 t needs to be recognized that over "shameless immense love of the suggests, but in an arena more akin to I the long haul of recorded Western world." Sartre's attack on the the space of a free-wheeling circus. It thought, imagination has rarely surrealists was not nearly as seems to me that, if we are paralyzed, I fared very well.... Maybe we still devastating to their promotion of the it is not by the performance, but by the haven't haken the legacy of Plato, imagination, however, as the response fear of becoming a part of it. We are I Iwho, ranking imagination in his of the general public which attempted nervous about a slip of the imagination ascending cale of approaches to truth, to relegate the surrealist movement to that might launch our rather arthritic put it at the bottom, well below belief the oblivion reserved by "mature" skulls into fantastic somersaults that and thinking and knowledge .. .. True, adults for the magical thinking and might not bring us fully round again. the imagination had its day in the provocative experiments of children. We are fascinated by the power of the nineteenth century, promoted by I bring up this response to surrealism imagination, but also made uneasy by philosophers and poets alike as the here because I think that it is one that it because it refuses to recognize the "ideal" way of knowing, but this was hasn' t changed all that much over the kinds of intellectual and economic the time of the Romantics, a term that years and because I believe it reflects controls that we have become common parlance tends to thi s day to our perspective on the imagination in comfortable applying. It has nothing apply as a pejorative epithet rather many other contexts as well. to do with such questions as "is than a flattering one. Even in the something reasonable, productive, twentieth century, a time when so measurable, explainable, doable, many of the "isms"--cubism, Now, as then, the revolutionary provable, and therefore safe." And so, expressionism, dadaism, surrealism, freedom of the head and heart promoted for all sorts of "good reasons," we absurdism--emphatically rejected by surrealism requires an elasticity of congratulate ourselves for our reason in favor of the freedom and the imagination that few will train for. seriousness, all our moral endeavors, honesty and creative powers of A precarious tightrope walk on the and the intellectual gymnastics we do irrational forces, the "ism" that most filament connecting dreams, the instead, and we permit ourselves to successfully dominated post-World­ unconscious, and the marvelous to the become imaginatively unfit. War-n intellectual milieux was quotidian requires the kind of leisure, existentialism. And existentialism, at daring, and humor that society, in the least as it was conceived and promoted name of security and good taste and by Sartre, it 's most influential reason, prefers to drum out of children, Continued on page 8 3 I rom the evening news According to English/Sociology feel that as everything has opened up so to the morning paper, Major Michelle DiSantis, "When I was much, there is so much more opportunity from corporate board younger I used to think Ronald Reagan overseas. It's not as far away as I used to rooms to college was going to come in and nuke the think." classrooms the word Soviets and blow us all to bits." "My views have changed," she con­ is globalization. The The students of her generation tinued, "that's why I want to go into remarkable events of prayed along with pop singer Sting, international relations. The corning the past two years "We share the same biology, regard­ down of the Wall had a huge impact on have transformed the less of ideology ... There's no such thing me. It was such a sign of freedom and world and our per­ as a win-able war, it's a lie we don't being able to do what you want to do. ceptions. Things have changed in believe anymore ... What might save You have so many more choices, you ways that were inconceivable three us, me and you, is if the Russians love can go to so many more places. I do years ago and higher education has their children, too." consider myself much more capable been irreversibly altered. When asked about globalization, now of being an international actor Current events have ripped into Highlander(formerly The Brown & Gold) rather than just having to stay in the traditional education. History books Editor Nick Jackson, a Psychology/Po­ U.S. and get a job just dealing with the are curiously outdated. Maps are no litical Science major answered, "I would U.S. You just have to ask and longer relevant. Concepts and ideas say globalization is definitely happening research to find a job that seemed so solid and set in stone to me. And I'm not sure whether it's the that you can have been dashed. Professors and recent events which have made it that do over­ students alike are scrambling to keep way or whether it's kind of a develop­ seas. up. Whatever happened to the Cold ment within my own self. Only last War, the Wall, Communism? semester when I took an international Regis has not been immune to relations class did I decide in my mind these changes. Over the last decade to major in - or at least minor in there has been a shift in the school's political science and to have an demographics. The students at Regis international relations view­ are no longer only 18-21 years old and point. Sol'mnotsureifit's fresh from high school. A large per­ the global events or centage of them are between 30 and whether it's just some­ 50.

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