Wednesday May 2,2001 Vol. 70, No.14 Lexrt newspaper oJT Saint Xavier TJxi±ire:rwlty~ Free Sports Contact at INSIDE 773.298.3380 or Email at this issue [email protected] Formal a success Grin's no joke Lady Cougars win big SXU students travel to Cuba By Patricia Foxx The Asociacion de Pedagogos Xavierite Editor Cubanos obtained visas for the group. The ESL and Bilingual Ap­ Unfortunately the group was proval Program, from the School of unable to attend a teaching of a high Education, prepares both future and school classroom or observe an ac­ certified teachers to deliver instruc­ tual 2nd language instruction in the tion for ESL students and students classroom. The students did inter­ who are culturally diverse. view professors in Cuba. As part of the course work, They were also able to talk to Sharon Adelman Reyes, Ph.D. and high school students and visit el­ three students Alicia Sanchez, ementary schools, and day care cen­ Veronica Zapata and Susan Wagner ters. traveled to Cuba, in the Havana Grades one through six are and the Pinar,del Rio considered primaria (elementary) in Province to study 2nd language in­ the Cuban school system. struction, which is English, in Cu­ Secundaria (middle school) classes ban school systems. is seven through nine and ten The trip was an extension of through twelve is preuniversitario the Cross-Cultural Studies in a Bi­ (high school). lingual Program class. SXU students talked to high The Center for Educational school students from the Math and Practice sponsored the student por­ Science Academy in the Havana tion of the trip, and the Dean of the School of Education sponsored Reyes' portion of the trip. Cuba continued on Courtesy of students that traveled to Cuba to study page 3 Example of a classroom in Cuba. SXU raises awareness of drug abuse Survivors share experiences By Patricia Foxx of drinking and driving Xavierite Editor April was alcohol awareness By Amanda Trinkle bons and others shared their month. An information table and Contributor knowledge and experiences with billboards were posted warning stu­ DUIs (driving under the influ­ On Monday, April 23, ence). dents of the dangers of alcohol and 2001, SXU students and visitors drug abuse. Attorney Michael Johnson were informed on the tragic ef­ educated the audience on the At the information table sat fects of drinking and driving. Ronald A. Rufo, certified scary consequences brought on The discussion, coordinated by by DUIs. Students were G.R.E.A.T (Gang Resistance Edu­ Yasmeen, took place in the cation and Training) instructor from lounge of Regina Hall. the Chicago Police. He was there Guest speakers Michael Survivors continued to answer students' questions and Johnson, Judge Berry, Nell Gib­ give out information. Goggles were on page 3 available for the students to wear, so they could experience first hand Bulletin board raising awareness of the dangers of alcohol. what being drunk feels like. The goggles served this purpose by blur­ could see what various drugs looked drugs is like jumping off the roof, ring the students' vision and then he/ like, as well as what tools people no good can come of it," said Rufo. she was given a mock sobriety test. would use to achieve a high. GHB, slang term "ruffies," is Part of the test consisted of giving According to Rufo, heroin is Rufo a high five, (most missed). the most highly addictive drug. A Drug paraphenalia, in a glass person only needs to take the drug Drug continued on case, was set up on the table. People once to become addicted. "Taking page 3 Page 2 Xavierite Wednesday, May 2, 2001 Cougar Bites Mind and the age Join the Munroe By Patricia Foxx Jordan and his colleagues Park Theatre Guild and Xavierite Editor then had their subjects used left and right buttons to move dots and keep Hale Park Theatre Co., On April 19, PsyChi held its them from touching the screen as they present "Jesus last monthly brown bag lunch, walls. "Mind and the Information Age," At some point in the experi­ Christ Superstar" play- presented by Doctor Scott Jordan. ment they joined the subjects to |ing until May 5, 2001 Doctor Jordan first presented work together to keep the dot from at the Ridge Park Auditorium. For more infor­ information then opened the floor touching the screen wall. for discussion. The subjects could only see mation about the Chicago Park District, call Jordan said according to Jo­ the screen, not their partner's com­ 321.742.PLAY or 312.747.200l(TTY) or visit seph Campbell, and his book "The puter or the partner themselves. The Power of Myth," we need a new dot then disappeared at one point in www.chicagoparkdistrict.com. myth in this new age. Jordan also the trial. referred to S.I. HaYakawa's book The subjects said the point of All lines directly quoted from. "Language in Thought and Action," disappearance was farther then it to explain myth. disappeared, and it was even farther President George Dubya: Through the book and Dr. then initial trials when they were Jordan's own thoughts, he formed just tracking the dot by themselves. the definition of myth as being not The point of this seemed to "I think we all agree the past is over." a state of not knowing, but as an prove that the human mind is not "This is still a dangerous world." agreed upon way of dealing with meant to be about the individual, but each other. In "dealing with each "It's a world of madmen and uncertainty about others. other," he meant an agreed upon Humans created a further Courtesy ofachsnault.org and potential mental losses." way of thinking about, and what we vanishing point when working with expect from, each other. age started the- day a human took "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children someone else, because they had less an idea and put it back into the Part of the definition of this world. He also says that the new learning?" myth is reflected in "Pinnochio" food chain i» iiifvn incitl^ii. "Will the highways of the Internet become when Pinnochio saves his father Words such as inferiority without thinking of saving himself. more few?" "People are cre­ complex (Adler), narcissistic He sacrifices his life for his father, (Freud), and positive reinforcement "How many hands have I shaked?" and thus is given the gift of being ative in different (B.F. Skinner), were words society "They misunderestimate me." made into a human little boy. did not know in the past, but hu­ The message is that we are ways. Not everyone mans know now. "I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity." most human when we are not think­ "Do you want to be the one "I know that the human being and the fish ing about ourselves, said Jordan. can be creative in creating the ideas? Where do you He went on to explain that this can coexist." want to be on the information food is a common myth in religion, the same way in chain?" Jordan asked the group. "Families is where our nation finds hope, stressing not whether God exists or one mind. We need Discussion revolved around where our wings take dream." not, but just the belief that we exist this rise of information and more for others. to embrace that di­ efficient ways to obtain it. The In­ "Put food on your family!" He also went on to explain ternet or computers, he says are a "Knock down the tollbooth!" that the mind is ultimately not a reg­ versity. That's what good thing. istering mechanism, but creative. It "Vulcanize Society!" People seem to be less cog­ does not register events that happen, got us out of the nitive of each other in the present. but creates what happens. "The swamp." That the the rise of information and Saint Xavier's new residence hall will be mind doesn't wait to register the chat rooms takes humans out of the world, the mind goes out and kicks world was one of the ideas circu­ named McCarthy Hall in honor of Mother the world's butt," said Jordan. lated around. Mary Huberta McCarthy, R.S.M., Saint Xavier Jordan went on to demon­ control over the dot. When the sub­ Humans seem to be going strate this theory through a study he University's President from 1945-1960. Mother jects were alone, they expect great back to their initial savagery, but in and his colleagues completed. control,. When working with oth­ a different way. Savagery is seen Huberta's nephew, John McCarthy, is now Jordan and his colleagues had ers they had less control, so the dot in the competition over information. Chair of the SXU's Board of Trustees. subjects stare at a dot that moved vanished at a farther point. The question whether the rise across a computer screen and then "I cannot cooperate with you in information was bad or good say where it disappeared. The sub­ unless I can think of what it is like could not be answered. There was "Opus 2001" is now available in the Art jects said the dot disappeared far­ to be you," said Jordan. also discussion whether the former ther then it did in the actual scenario. Gallery, Student Services, and the English Jordan then went on to say, could even be a legitimate question. In the experiment, subjects "What you are doing when you are One thought Doctor Jordan Department. were then not allowed to move their cooperating is not about you, it's came to the conclusion on was that eye to track the dot.