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The Xavierite THE EYES AND EARS OF SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY STUDENTS Wednesday, March 21, 2007 www.xavierite.com Volume 76, Number 20 New library designs are unveiled Editorials Is this supposed to be green? Page 4 Features Sudoku DUMMIES Hate words? Love numbers? Page 6 Entertainment For some reason, Megan came into the office and just kept yelling "SPARTA!" Page 8 Sports Cougar Basketball celebrates great season. Page 16 By Nicholas Kerr News Editor The construction of a new library on the Chicago Campus of Saint Xavier University entered stage two this past week as the university exhibited four potential designs for the future library from Mar.15-20 in the student lounge. According to a University press release there are no "immediate" plans to build a new library which would be located south of the Warde Academic Center where parking Lot 3 is located. The University also indicated that the new library would be built using similar green technologies as those in Rubloff Hall. Junior Matt Reid said of the designs, "The public exhibition is appreciated because it gives students a chance to see the future outlook of SXU. The presentations are really clean, crisp and professional." The architecture firms that will submit proposals are Frye Gillan Molinaro Architects; Nagle Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Penney Architects; Perkins+Will; and Solomon Cordwell Buenz. Students look at a potential design According to the press release, the firms were at SXU on Feb.21 to research the campus and will be presenting their proposal to the Selection Committee on Mar. 26. The Selection Committee is comprised of seven members. Among the committee members are SXU Provost Dominick Hart and Chicago Public Library commissioner Mary Dempsey. The commitee will make a suggestion of which plan to go with to Dr. Dwyer. The Xavierite will have more coverage of the plans for a new library in our next issue. Cardinal talks higher ed. By Nicholas Kerr News Editor At his Mar. 8 lecture Cardinal George highlighted a problem as he saw it of the lack of Catholic professors at Catholic universities. He cited Notre Dame as an example, pointing out that in the 1960s their percentage of Catholic faculty with more than ninety percent whereas today it is only a slim majority Catholic. He concluded his remarks on the subject by stating, "It is difficult to imagine any university college to be in any significant sense Catholic if its faculty is dominated by people who might be hostile to the vision at the heart of the Catholic moral and intellectual traditions." The Cardinal gave the fourth installment of the Catholic Colloquium Lecture Series. His lecture focused on the role of Catholic universities in today's world. Areas he touched upon in the speech included the increasing secularization in higher education and in the teaching of applied ethics. He ended the lecture with his thoughts of the Second Vatican Council. The bulk of the Cardinal lecture dealt with the secularization in applied ethics. According to the Cardinal applied ethics, the study of ethics of practical problems in certain subject area, became popular in the 1970's with the writings of Peter Singer and John Rawls. A problem he saw with the application of applied ethics is that people now view problems on a case by case process rather than overall moral view of things. The area of applied ethics he touched on Cardinal George most with medical ethics. One area of medical ethics that bothered him was the acceptance of physician-assisted suicide. He noted that the best effort to stop the legalization of this practice came from the disabled community. He also criticized patient autonomy by saying, "This resolve to personal choice put forward as a neutral and liberating value has been responsible for some of the greatest atrocities committed in modern medicine. The frequency which it is appealed as the value of last resort, and so much of secular academic ethics is testimony to the bankruptcy of this approach to contemporary moral issues." The Cardinal also said, "The importance therefore of presevering catholic healthcare institutions particularly hospitals {is greater} because they are the only medical institutions in this culture where no one is deliberately put to death." He also challenged the popular view that the Second Vatican Council was an attempt of the Church at that time to try to modernize. He thought of it as an attempt by the Church to help unite the world at a time of social upheavel. John Pelrine, Vice President for Student Affairs, said of the speech, "I really enjoyed it. He showed he understood the complexity of higher education. The experience he has as a phiolosophy professor at Creighton gave him a good insight into Catholic higher education."
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Document | The Xavierite |
Date | 2007 |
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Transcript | The Xavierite THE EYES AND EARS OF SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY STUDENTS Wednesday, March 21, 2007 www.xavierite.com Volume 76, Number 20 New library designs are unveiled Editorials Is this supposed to be green? Page 4 Features Sudoku DUMMIES Hate words? Love numbers? Page 6 Entertainment For some reason, Megan came into the office and just kept yelling "SPARTA!" Page 8 Sports Cougar Basketball celebrates great season. Page 16 By Nicholas Kerr News Editor The construction of a new library on the Chicago Campus of Saint Xavier University entered stage two this past week as the university exhibited four potential designs for the future library from Mar.15-20 in the student lounge. According to a University press release there are no "immediate" plans to build a new library which would be located south of the Warde Academic Center where parking Lot 3 is located. The University also indicated that the new library would be built using similar green technologies as those in Rubloff Hall. Junior Matt Reid said of the designs, "The public exhibition is appreciated because it gives students a chance to see the future outlook of SXU. The presentations are really clean, crisp and professional." The architecture firms that will submit proposals are Frye Gillan Molinaro Architects; Nagle Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Penney Architects; Perkins+Will; and Solomon Cordwell Buenz. Students look at a potential design According to the press release, the firms were at SXU on Feb.21 to research the campus and will be presenting their proposal to the Selection Committee on Mar. 26. The Selection Committee is comprised of seven members. Among the committee members are SXU Provost Dominick Hart and Chicago Public Library commissioner Mary Dempsey. The commitee will make a suggestion of which plan to go with to Dr. Dwyer. The Xavierite will have more coverage of the plans for a new library in our next issue. Cardinal talks higher ed. By Nicholas Kerr News Editor At his Mar. 8 lecture Cardinal George highlighted a problem as he saw it of the lack of Catholic professors at Catholic universities. He cited Notre Dame as an example, pointing out that in the 1960s their percentage of Catholic faculty with more than ninety percent whereas today it is only a slim majority Catholic. He concluded his remarks on the subject by stating, "It is difficult to imagine any university college to be in any significant sense Catholic if its faculty is dominated by people who might be hostile to the vision at the heart of the Catholic moral and intellectual traditions." The Cardinal gave the fourth installment of the Catholic Colloquium Lecture Series. His lecture focused on the role of Catholic universities in today's world. Areas he touched upon in the speech included the increasing secularization in higher education and in the teaching of applied ethics. He ended the lecture with his thoughts of the Second Vatican Council. The bulk of the Cardinal lecture dealt with the secularization in applied ethics. According to the Cardinal applied ethics, the study of ethics of practical problems in certain subject area, became popular in the 1970's with the writings of Peter Singer and John Rawls. A problem he saw with the application of applied ethics is that people now view problems on a case by case process rather than overall moral view of things. The area of applied ethics he touched on Cardinal George most with medical ethics. One area of medical ethics that bothered him was the acceptance of physician-assisted suicide. He noted that the best effort to stop the legalization of this practice came from the disabled community. He also criticized patient autonomy by saying, "This resolve to personal choice put forward as a neutral and liberating value has been responsible for some of the greatest atrocities committed in modern medicine. The frequency which it is appealed as the value of last resort, and so much of secular academic ethics is testimony to the bankruptcy of this approach to contemporary moral issues." The Cardinal also said, "The importance therefore of presevering catholic healthcare institutions particularly hospitals {is greater} because they are the only medical institutions in this culture where no one is deliberately put to death." He also challenged the popular view that the Second Vatican Council was an attempt of the Church at that time to try to modernize. He thought of it as an attempt by the Church to help unite the world at a time of social upheavel. John Pelrine, Vice President for Student Affairs, said of the speech, "I really enjoyed it. He showed he understood the complexity of higher education. The experience he has as a phiolosophy professor at Creighton gave him a good insight into Catholic higher education." |
Collection | Xavierite (Saint Xavier University) |
Relation | Saint Xavier University Publications |
Subject(s) | Saint Xavier University (Chicago, Ill.) -- History. |
Type | text |
Format | image/jpeg |
Language | eng |
Publisher | Saint Xavier University |
Year Published | 2013 |
Rights | The items digitized in this collection are the property of Saint Xavier University. This image may be used freely, with attribution, for research and educational purposes. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact archives@sxu.edu. |