Seattle nivU ersity ScholarWorks @ SeattleU The peS ctator 3-6-2003 Spectator 2003-03-06 Editors of The pS ectator Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/spectator Recommended Citation Editors of The peS ctator, "Spectator 2003-03-06" (2003). The Spectator. 2193. http://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/spectator/2193 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. I'Kl SORTED THE SPECTATOR Si \NOARD U.S.POSTAOI P\ID Si miii.WA Pi r\iitNo. 2783 S E A T T L E —I— U DIVERSITY H^BB^piH^^^^^^^Hk plus Wex ASSU 12I Itfews 2-5 Classifieds 13I \ Sports 6-7 Personals 131 Features 8-9 Opinion 14-15I \A&E 10-11 Campus Voice 16l 2 News From the president's office: the mission AUSTINL. BURTON Spec: Who is the mission state- than beingdirected towards them. asenseownershipofit,a Co-ManagingEditor ment for? Spec:Earlierdrafts included the sense that it'stheirmis- Itwon'tlooklike itwhenyoufirst Fr.Sundborg:Themissionstate- value"Studentscomefirst,"or"Put- sion statement that they see it, but SeattleUniversity'snew mentisthepublicstatementofwhat tingthe goodof students first." have a commitment to. mission statementhas been a work Seattle University is.It will be the Why is thatno longerincluded? So it's important to de- inprogress for nearlyseven years. official statementof,"This is what Fr. Sundborg: The difficulty velop a sense of com- President StephenSundborg,SJ, we're about, these are our values, with [that phrase] was it was the mitment to this mission had the idea to rewritethe mission thisis ourmissioninthe future,and onlyvaluethat was a statementlike statement that it's not statement inhis first year at SU in this is what oureducation is like." that. We kept running into people mineaspresidentbutit's 1997. This year, after accepting a It'sintendedgenerallyforthepub- whofeltitwastoomuchofaslogan. oursas a university. challenge from the BoardofTrust- lic.It's also intended for students, It'salittlebittoomuch like,"Wedo ees torevise the statement,thepro- for faculty, forpeople who want to it allfor you." Spec:Isthereanything cess isnearlycomplete. workhere.It'salsothesingle thing Idecidedit was still important to youfeel was left out, or The latest draft wasapprovedby the Board of Trustees is account- keep that focus on our students, you wish you had more the Board onFeb. 27 and willbe- ableto. It's theone thingthatallof though. So when Italk about the room todevelop? come official inMay.Forhowever us atSeattleUniversityareaccount- "prioritizationoflearning"(another Ii. Sundborg: longit stands,thenewmission state- able to. If you're talking about a value),that'sreallysayingthe most There's a lot about our JAMILA JOHNSON / NEWS EDITOR ment will prove to be yet another student who has chosen Seattle important thing is the learning of fundamental commit- Fr.StephenSundborg,S.J. worksathisdeskin lasting mark on SU made by Fr. University,theyshouldknow what students, so that's really trying to ment around the CORE the Administration building. Sundborg. Recently,he spoke to our mission statement is and that say the same thing as "We put the curriculum and what The Spectator aboutthis project. being a student here means they goodof studentsfirst." that's all about; a sequenced, hu- to the big issues and questionsof should be accountable to that mis- manisticlearning thatisthe founda- justice,andknowhow torespondto Spectator:Why changethe mis- sion statement.These are whatour Spec:Is therea weakerfocus on tionofeducationthatis soessential those issuesand questions. sion statement? values are.This is our vision. Catholicvalues thaninearlydrafts? to what a Jesuit university is. It Fr. Sundborg: The previous Fr.Sundborg:Ithinkit's clearer takes a lot to articulate that well. I Spec:Are yousatisfied withthe [missionstatement]wasfrom 1988. Spec:Howintegral werestudents thanit wasbefore. It'saclear iden- don't feel there's enough space to latest version? There's a lotthat's changedin that in the draftingprocess? tificationof ourselves as aCatholic have done that. Fr.Sundborg:Idon'tknow.I'm last14yearsaboutwhat themission Fr.Sundborg:Studentshadquite university. Itried to have a para- justtooclosetoit toknow whether statementof auniversity shouldbe. a bit of an impact.The main way graph in there about what does it Spec: How often should a Uni- itreallysays whatI'velearned over Mission statements are attempted was the students felt that [in the mean to be a Jesuit university and versityupdateitsmissionstatement? the course of this year about our tobe more succinctnow. previous mission statement] they what does it meantobe a Catholic Fr.Sundborg:Every 10 years. mission.Ilike that it's compact. I When Icame to Seattle Univer- weren't included very well. They university. Sometimesthose were The previous mission statement like the fact that we can say our sity in 1997 Ihad the intention of feltit wasa statementabouthow the put together,sometimes they were didn't sayanythingaboutourdiver- mission in one sentence and six developinga process to redo the University woulddeliveraneduca- madeintotwodifferentstatements. sity;it didn'tmentiona lotof char- values.Ithink the rest of it is suc- missionstatement.It felt tome that tion tothe students,rather thanthere Maybe it was misleading before, acteristics that come to the fore- cinct and clear. I was challenged eventhen in1997it wasout ofdate, beinga senseof student participa- but Ithink it's clearer. front, like ourcommitment tojus- along the way:peoplesaid there's and that it was time for it to be tionintheeducation.[It wasimpor- tice. notenoughpassiontoit, there's not updated. tant] to have it as more of a state- Spec: Has this been a difficult If there's one thingthat's new in enough feeling to it, there's not So although it was asked for by ment thatincludesthe studentvoice project? this missionstatementcompared to enoughofasenseofinvolvement. I the Boardof Trustees, it was also in it. Like when Italked about a Fr.Sundborg:It' s taken alotof the one in 1988, it's the clearcom- don't know whetherthishas enough something Iwanted to do just so "commitmenttocollaboration"(one work, but I've really enjoyed the mitmentat SeattleUniversity toan ofthat.It'skindofhardwhenyou're thai our mission statement really of thesix valuesinthenewmission process. The thing that's hard is a education for justice. No student doinganofficial statement. Some- expressed who we are and where statement),Imeanthatamongallof mission statement is only as good should graduate fromSeattleUni- times the clearer you get, the less we'regoing. us. It's inclusive of students rather as thedegreeto which people have versitywithouthavingbeenexposed optimistic orencouragingyouget. Volunteers needed: Women 16-23 - age participation in Earn 51,000 52,000for yourStudentGroup years of for In just 3 hours! The F.U.T.U.R.E Study (Females to Unilaterally United Reduce .Mjaf_--:'ais rgocto-s availip* No car*ishes No 'a'fles. Justsuccess! Endo/Eeto Cervical Diseaue) F.-cais -gditts arc filling qulcldy. Cc: v.lth tfie program *itv.o-<. 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Cherry Street.Shesaysupperman- emphasized.Energyalternatives are "Frustrating,"saidEmily Potts,a agementadjustsprices tostaycom- frequently discussed, but it all be- major. petitive stations in the gins withawareness. juniorEnglish with other ' Therecentspikeingaspriceshas area.But thatdoesn tprovidemuch "[Rising gas prices] willpushus caused students' wallets and pa- comfort tosome ofher angry cus- toward using alternate means of tience to run on empty. And it tomers. transportation andhigh-occupancy doesn't look like the prices will "Ihadone guycomeinandcom- vehicles,"he said. deflate anytime soon. plain thathe wasgoingtoreportus Some students have already Seattle'saverageprice pergallon