FREEDOM & FAIRNESS University of San Francisco VOL. 100 ISSUE 9 www.usfca.edu/foghorn NOVEMBER 20, 2003 Dual Degree Gone, Not A Good Deal Forgotten JESSICA LOVE StaffWriter NICOLE ALCORN, BEN BETANCOURT, After five years and one summer dedicat­ CASSANDRA COSTELLO, KATRINA ed to college courses, a student at USF can MALACHOWSKI, JENNIFER MASON, enter into the job market with a Bachelor's DAWN MAUBERRET, SARA STEELE, Degree, a Master's Degree and a California VALERIE ZAPANTA, and MATT Teaching Credential. ZAGARIELLO For almost ten years, USF has been turn­ Staff Writers ing out graduates with these qualifications as a result of the Dual Degree Program in The gunshots that rang out in San Francisco's Teaching, an intensive program created by the City Hall 25 years ago could still be heard last week College of Arts and Sciences and the School in a series of events USF hosted to commemorate of Education. the anniversary of the assassinations of Mayor The Dual Degree Program is designed George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. for students who want to teach in California Dan White shot and killed Moscone, who was schools at the elementary or high school level. markedly more liberal than previous mayors, and Students can either work toward one-subject Milk, the first openly gay elected official in U.S. his­ or multiple-subject teaching credentials. tory, in City Hall in 1978. White resigned from the Program Director David Galles Board of Supervisors after the Board passed a civil explained the uniqueness of Dual Degree: "If rights bill protecting homosexuals from losing their you didn't take advantage of this program, you jobs on the basis of their sexual orientation. White would spend four years working on a tried to get his position back, only to discover that Bachelor's Degree and the following two the liberal wing on the Board was fighting to keep years on a Master's Degree. With this pro­ his conservative views away. White's attorneys gram, you save a year because you spread out claimed he suffered from diminished capacity and one year of graduate school over the four years argued his bloodthirsty rage was fueled by an over­ of undergraduate study." dose of junk food - the infamous "Twinkie The program consists of approximately ANIELA VAI.TIERRA/FOGHORN Defense." He was convicted of manslaughter and 50 seniors, 30 juniors, 50 sophomores and 20 The new addition to the school of business is slowly rising up behind the McLaren School ofBusiness on Fulton Street. This new building sentenced to seven years in prison. White served to 30 freshmen. Galles is pleased with the is just part of the many on-campus construction projects that form the Master Plans for renovations. slightly more than five years and committed suicide number of graduates from the Dual Degree shortly after his release. Program. "We have a higher retention rate In January, Peter Novak, assistant professor of than the retention rate of really difficult visual and performing arts, came up with an idea to majors. All ofour students know they want to Campus Makeover Continues commemorate the tragedy. "I realized that it has become teachers, and they are very excited been 25 years since Harvey was murdered," Novak and very dedicated." If the program does lose said. In addition to directing "Execution of Justice," students, "it is because they either decide that JILLIAN NGUYEN ness school construction site on Fulton garage, dedicated to the new visual arts a play in which the audience plays the jury and hears the program is too intense, or because they do StaffWriter St. program. Much of the garages interior the arguments from both sides, intermixed with not want to go into elementary or high school Harney Science Center Addition was left intact for an artistic ambiance. footage from the time, Novak coordinated several teaching, but rather they want to teach at the Loud disruptive banging, heavy Last year, the Harney Science The new Xarts studio now offers several panels on the legacies of Milk, Moscone and White. university level." machinery everywhere and people in Center was one ofthe first projects with visual arts classes offered to students, "It's such an amazing story you just can't believe While the program boasts focused and hardhats can only mean one thing—con­ its new Kudlick computer classroom, from sculpture to graphic design. it almost," Novak said. "And so it's really important dedicated students, the Dual Degree pro­ struction on campus. named after Michael Kudlick, a former School of Law Renovations that we continue to tell it. People are really affected gram's intensity presents a challenging college Beginning last year, many construc­ professor of computer science. The The Kendrick school of Law start­ by it. We had a lot of people crying each night, it's a undertaking. Senior Patricia Rothrock, an tion ideas were planned and started for classroom is designed to accommodate ed this year off with bigger and better very moving story, and an important one." economics major, is in the program, and for the campus-wide Master Plan renova­ both lecture and lab classes and is lecture rooms, and the new moot court­ Nov. 10, Mayor Willie Brown and President her it's been a tough four years. "I have taken tions. Renovations include remodeling equipped with 30 computer screens, two room. Edith Ho, an instructor in the pro Tempore John Burton recalled their friend no less than 17 units each semester; some­ the University Center, reconstructing DVD screens with computer monitor Legal Research and Writing Program at Moscone. Burton, who was Moscone's campaign times I've done over 18 so I can graduate on the War Memorial Gym, rebuilding capability and a projector screen, gener­ the School of Law, said the lecture manager, met him in 1946 after a high school bas­ time," she said. Campion, building a new business ously funded by USF alumnus, Alfred rooms have a better learning atmosphere ketball game. "George was closer to me than my "This is a rigorous program," Galles said. school, and various other construction Chuang, '82. as well as better technology. own two brothers," Burton said. In an already structured curriculum, complet­ projects that would affect Lone "There are two different screens instead The UC Remodeling Project Brown, who was in Moscone's office moments ing a special program successfully requires Mountain as well. of one [in the new classroom] so you can Crossroads Cafe, the new eatery for before White shot him, met him at Hastings going above and beyond the work of an aver­ While plans boast major improve­ get multiple information at a time," said USF students located on the first floor College of the Law. The first African American age student completing their undergraduate ments for campus space in the longterm, Ybusef Ouradi, a sophomore computer of the University Center building, is mayor of San Francisco, Brown remembers times degree. "It's almost like completing an extra for now, some have had to deal with science major. "There's also a computer­ another phase of the renovations that when Moscone came close to getting into fights minor," he said. inconvenient displacement and aggra­ ized smart board that can be used for have been taking place in the UC for the when others used racial slurs. In addition to completing major courses vating noise. "I know they have to do many things...[such as] an overhead last year. It reopened Nov. 10 after Jenn Zipp, an actor in "Execution of Justice," and core curriculum courses, a student in the construction, and they can't help the projector for better viewing, and the months of renovation. The new cafe said that because she is not from the Bay Area, she Dual Degree Program must take teacher edu­ noise, but it still affects my studying so I computers are pretty powerful. It's a remains open later than The Market, didn't know about the case before she decided to do cation courses. If studying to be a multiple- have to go to the library," said Dawn good learning atmosphere." accommodating students with busy the play. "It's amazing how it's such an important subject teacher, students must take extra Dinh, a freshman psychology major. New Art Studio schedules or those with the late night part of this city, and it's a shame that not that many courses outside of their major to attain a wider Dinh, a resident of Phelan Hall's second Sprawling from the old Xavier hall munchies. "I always want [The Market] people know about it, even those who five in this range of knowledge. floor, must wake up to the loud noises garage is Xarts. There is also a new art city," Zipp, a senior, said. CONSTRUCTION: PAGE 2 "This is definitely something that people DEGREE: PAGE 2 everyday because her room faces a busi­ studio, Xarts, in the old Xavier Hall should know about," Zipp added. "This play has such an important message, especially for students at USF who are learning about social justice. This plays to the full aspect of what our school is trying to teach us. No one should eat twinkies and then get Crossroads Reopens away with murder." DAWN MAUBERRET from the Market down into the cafe. This is one ofthe Reporters Remember StaffWriter reasons why the reopening of the cafe has taken so long. "The biggest delay was trying to build in San Nov. 9, three journalists who covered the case Huge changes are in store for coffee-drinkers and Francisco. Permits are extremely difficult to get [in this shared their recollections with a few dozen San cafe-goers at USF.