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THE SAN DIEGO UNION

Sunday, October 29, 1978

Dorm 1=acilities Rising At USO

countr~ ar~ cutting back, the University of San Diego is experiencing an in- creased demand for staff ~d stu~ent housing to meet mcreasmg enrollments " Boyce said. ' . USD is a major private, mdependent Catholic uni- versity. Its programs for 3,800 students include a Col- lege of Arts and Sciences School of Law, School of Nursing, School of Business dmlnlstratton and School cl Education.

the best features were in- corporated into USD's project," said Jack Boyce, USO vice president for fi- nancial affairs. Each of the 12 buildings will rise three stories and house 88 single-bed and 84 double-bed units. A cenL al pedestrian mall with cmr1- yards feature the develip- ment which overlooks Teco- lote Canyon and Mis on Bay. "At a time when most universities across t he

A construction program dent housing facility and an to increase the undergradu- 8,000-square-foot student ate housing by 35 percent is lounge. Present facilities under way at the University accommodate 730 under- of San Diego. graduates on campus. The $3.5 million project The complex was de- will include a 256-bed stu-

signed by Schoell & Paul Inc. The contractor is the ~ .H. Golden Co. Comple- tion of the 12-bullding com- plex is scheduled next June. "A comprehensive sur- vey was made of recent student dormitory construc- tion on Sothern California university campuses and

sity of San Diego by the M.H. Golden Co. The project is scheduled for complet·,on ·,n J 1979

TWELVE THREE-STORY structures to accommodate 256 students are under construction at the Univer-

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to say whether college stu- dents today are more relig- 10us, but that their anti- institutionalism is as strong as it ever was. "We ~till have plenty of students who are turned off by the institutional church, but who identify with the Christian faith or some other faith, though they re- ally don't want to plug in to any one institution," says Huber. Huber also says he sees no evidence that students today fmd the credibllty of certain Christian doctrines such as the existence of God or Christ's Resurrec- tion - anv more or Jess of an impediment to belief than the past. ji>olan, however, says Catholic students at USD are less apt to take church teachmgs as final than stu- dents were a generation or so ago. "They're a lot more so- ph1Sticated m that regard," says Dolan. "They're study- ing. theology and they're seeing that many church teachings are time-bOund and expressions of ideals to which m many instances they can conform, and in others they can't. "There's a real move- ment towards the formation of Qinscience with due re- gard for the church teach- ings, but ultimately they realize they stand alone be- fore God and must make the final decisions themselve~ Has the present genera• tion of youth been condi- tioned to so disrespect au- thority that it resents an instiluion like the church telling 1t what is right and wrong? -

ag(I we were still on the tag end of a lo of social a1.-tiv- ism and I find none of that The Rev. Laurence Dolan, USD campus pastor, says it it's hard to say whether college students are more religious today than they were a decade ago. But he says those who are religious are especially interested in prayer and community. "Much of the attraction of the cults, like the Unifica- tion Church and others of that nature, resides in their community living and shar- ing and dedication to com- mon ideals," says Dolan. "Our kids at USD are very mucll mto that com· munity thlilg. The retreat movement, for example, is growing every year and their attendance at Mass i also very good. On Sunday there's standing room only. So I think students' religio ity today is being expresse along more traditional line than the extreme social ac tiv1sm of the sixties. "Commumty is very im portant for the kids today They're seeking people the can share deep conver ·a tion, prayer and recrcatio with and in general mutua support and encouragemen for leading good pirit now."

By OB ~RT DI \'EROLI lRJIUNE R W I trad1t1onal in tbetr religloi. beliefs and practices today than they were a decade ago, accord- mg to campus ministers here. But they also say the anti· institutional trend, tn this case against the church, is about as strong as ever among stud n ThlS, they say' ref elects trends m the general soci- ety in both directions and a so toward a more mterlor, personal kind of religion But although many cam~ pus and other mm1sters see a somewhat fn ndlter atti- tude tov. ard rellglon today, few would call 1t a revival since disaffiliation still seems to be the norm "The d1saffillation among Protc tants and Jews Is enormous. Among Catho- lics it's getting to be," says the Rev Bernard Camp- bell, Roman Catholic carn- pu. minister at UCSD Campbel. says alienation from the Institutional churrh Is In the long run a bllnil alley "l d n l rea ly thmk Ui r s a c 01ce betwern lll.Stitutiona, nd noninstitu- tlonal religion There s only a choice between good and bad in. titut!on ," says r,ampbell. The Moom s, the Eastern mystic~ and evangelical movements which are en- joying some success among student says Campbell, are Institutions no matter how they p trh their appeal. Groups like the Moomes, College tudenl are som what mor

ECONOMISTS FORECASTING Grand Canyon Took Time, So Might In lotion B) DO. LI>('. B LUER fl!IGll(i111 Editor, TIie San Diego Union

ARTARENA Set paintings put to music By JAN JENNINGS TR IBUNE Ari Wrller Combine music with painted settings in the visual arts and the vlewPr may well feel that he is a performer in the fantasy atmosphere lt'5 u thre~ dimensional form of art hut thre dimensional in the sense of overall sight, hearing and feeling of the mood .John Wenger worked dramatically and creatively m the design of theater sets, imaginatively creating inspir- ing paintings, as well as the final product, the theatrical settmg. A one-man exhibit of Wenger's paintmgs for theatrical sets is on vi~w at Founders Gallery, USD, organized by Therr.se Whitcomb, professor in the university's art department. Wenger is b1:st noted for his designs for the Metropoli- tan Opera, the Ziegfield Follies, Rivoli and Roxy The- aters m New York and Paramount Studios. Thirty-five paintings by Wenger are on view, marking the first time the scene designer's works will be dis- played on the West Coast. These are little gems by the Russian-born artist. His works have been compared to those of ~arc Chagall and John Mann. And rightly so. Wenger brings the floating fantasy images of Chagall to his works. His paintings also mc-orporate the watercol- or, abstrarted imagery of Marin, combining both Rus- sian and American mfluence. Wenger is most noted for two contributions to theatri- cal and visual design. He was the first artist in the United States to use scrim, or theatrical gauze, in the settings These could be painted and situated to create a light, airy feelmg which he captured in his paintings for the sets. Whitcomb has designed the exhibit area to include the use of these scrim panels that add illusionary impact, as well as allowing the viewer to get dose to the works to examine them. Wenger also introduced movable set.~ to the theater in the United States. The panels for sets he designed moved as part of the theatrical performance in front of the audience They were not just secondary items which needed to be changed or moved, but part of the actual performance. "Wenger always said that he would like to see a theater with just the moving sets and music, no actors," said Whitcomb. "His design was so sophisticated that he felt it would work alone with tile music." In viewing Wenger's creations, one dO(',S get the feeling that he c·ould have created such a theater of sets and music alone, had tile time been ripe. There is so much activity going on in his somewhat small canvases that the eye moves all over. It would almost appear that figures in the scenes would be distracting. A particularly engaging piece is "Rapsody m Blue" with music by George Gershwin, a Ziegfield Production of 1925 It depicts the highlights or New York - the Statue of Liberty, Times Square and other scenic, active places in. the city_. This is one that really moves the eye. Add music, and httle else is needed A rather impressionistic piece is Wenger's "Moonlight Sonata'' to the music of Ludwig Van Bi-ethoven. Trees, the moon and a rather ethereal atmosphere of hillside landscape inject lyricism and poetry into the painting.

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find their arguments weak and sort of sophomoric and that they answPr questions nobody's a. king, they do raise the discussion level and that's always useful," he says. At least one campus pas- tor thinks students were more religious a decade ago than students are today. "They were more relig- ious in the sense that the Eastern spintuality they were experimenting with then was theirs and theirs alone," says the Rev David Burnight of San Diego State. "It wasn't something they shared with their par- ents and so they·took it "The average student today has gotten his relig- ion from his parents or church and in college is going through a natural pe- riod of testing and rebelling against them because they're not his. They're his parents. Ten years ago they had just moved into a new kind of sp1rituality that was ver:, much ligious bark tllen " more seriously.

tained that man has a fallen nature and that, left to him- self, without any attention given to his basic spiritual and moral needs, tends to self-destruction." The theory that progress through knowledge is inevi- table, says ~cClaskey, con- flicts with the Christian no- tion "that man needs the grace of Christ to change himself and his world " The Rev. Joseph Young, Episcopalian pastor at UCSD, says the church should look upon the secu- lar coll ge campus as a m1ss10T1 field lt:, chief antagonist, sa)S \oung, is a humanism that preaches faith in science and technol- ogy as the means for creat- ing an earthly paradise to be inhabited by the perfect man. On today's secular cam- pus, he says, the church is less apt to be called on to shepherd <.-ornmnted Chris- tians than to contend with pagans and non-Christians or to reclaim ex-Christians who have never really un- derstood what Christianity IS. Young, whO has been a college chaplam for more than 20 years, says one of the biggest changes in cam- pus ministries today JS that they are broader in scope. "A generation ago a cam- pus ministry was largely a chaplaincy to its own peo- ple. Today, it's a ministry to the whole campus com- munity - students, faculty and staff, says Young. "It's a ltstenmg post for the church.'

says Campbell, seem to have a special attraction for the children of the intel- ligentsia. "They're not country boys, but the sons and daughters of faculty mem- bers, board presidents and the real suprarationalists," he says. Another UCSD campus mmister, the Rev. Leslie Atkinson, thinks college stu- dents today are much more pnvate abOut their religion than students were a dec- ade ago ''Th 0 )'W become much more mternal about tt." says Atkinson, a United Pre byterian clergyman. It's not exactly a do-your- own-thlilg type of situation, but a much more mward looking kind of phenomenon than a few years ago. "They're also in a differ- ent place today. Five years

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directed, God-filled Jives" The Rev. Ed Hoffman, United Methodist campus minister at San Diego State University says, evangeli- cal and mainline Protes- tantism are registering gains gains among college students today. "I'd call it a resurgence of interest in religion rather than a revival, though, but it's very evident to me,' says Hoffman. "I think it's also reflected In the rapid growih of enrollments at seminaries across the country" Not olJ opt1m1stic is the Rev. Steven McClaskey, pastor of Christ The King Episcopal Church in Alpine and a former San Diego State State campus minis- ter. In general, says McClas- key, students are no more religious today than stu- dents were a decade ago. "The disaffection for in- stitutions - religious m- cluded - that character- ized the youth or tbe sixtte , is still there, though Without much of the hostility," says McClaske). "But I see no evidence of any great spirit- ual revival among young people. "I think most you g peo- ple, like people around them in the general society, have accepted the myth of progress that says that in- evitably in every way things are always getting better and better and on that account they see no need for the church. "The organized Christian ch11rch has always main-

Huber says students aren't necessarily against all authority, but that \hey demand good reasons for accepting any belle!. "If there's a professor on campus who really is per- suasive in the classroom, they'll buy into that if they've learned something and it's meaningful. They'll accept that as authorita- tive. "So, no, I don't think they·re just being anti- authorltarian. They just want to test the authority v.1th his facts before accept- ing it I think they're just eirrg selective." Hoffman says the very presence of a student athe- ist group at State suggests there is a greater interest m religion. "I think it's rather re- freslung because although I

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Workshop at USD Nov. 14 Will Focus on Role of the Pope A workshop on the role of the Pope is to be held at 9 a.m. Nov. 14 at the University of San Diego's Salomon Lecture HalL The program will focus on papal primacy and infallibility with speakers Dr. John IL Elliott. University of San Francisco professor of theology, and Dr. Keenan B. Osborne. profesaor of systematic theology and president or the Franciscan School of Theology at Berkeley. Workshop fees are $5 for the general public, $2 for student&

Government Part O f Problem ;11e problem is that_ govPrnment is too large a part of th total economy said Bear Therefore, he would favor moves that would reduce the government's impact. But he doubts the govcmnwnt will sec it his way · ''The outlook for next )Car depend. on what government policy will br. - what those jerks mWashington \\ ill do " One thing Bear would not recommend 1s a t;x cut - either the CartPr package a proposed or th Kemp-Roth Hepubhran altemat1ve 1,1h ch would la~h taxc d ply O\ r three years. "Kemp-Roth as t'llrr'ntl:, ,;tt r. is m r 1~ a tax cut - therefore It would he e:...pan.s1u.1ct J .c und 1rabl If it ....ere ar companied h:, a smular cu m ov m nl pl'ndmg. I would jump up, 1ct down m said B ar. U D pr?r s ,r Char F. Holt said, 'Th( pl · Ion I defmit · · dmg down . I see a pPak sh( in uly, f ought~ we v.ere thrre already, but 1t t rd yC'l But 19,9 will defm1tely be a recession ye~ Th sign. are rrmimscent of the 197:1-1975 period. 1 c have high mtere:,t rat , double-digit mflation. unem1,lo:, m ·nt at a fuur-year lo\\ In 1974, \\'C had OPEC (tlie rganlzatmn of Petroleum Exporting Countnes) quadru- pling pnces. and this year we have the dollar's decline Whl •h IS a similar intl'rnallonal problem There are botllenPcks d..vcloping m the e ·onomy - eem('nt 1s in short supply, similar to 1974 " Ifapp1I:,, however, hr ts not looklng for om 'hmg on the magmtud of the 1Y73-1975 free fall. He . fl'> economic growth dropping by a l1ttlr bit - sa:, I percent or so - for th fir t three quartrr , th n recovenng bnskly m the fou 1 rt~ ,- Pnding up thr year wlth a moc, t galil \\ce II ha\ stagna 1011 - agnanl growth and high 1nfiallon,' said Holt

The secUlar!Sm dominant 9n campuses today, howev- er, 1 being more seriously questioned, Young believes "It's a time v.llen serious and fundamental que~iions are ~ing asked of the aca- demic world and the nature of higher education, which for so long has sought to dispense a value-free education," he says. Young says there is no such thmg as a value free eduration, tf1e only question being on whose values edu- cation will be based. The Rev. John Huber, also of UCSD, says it's hard

JOAN KROC KIM FLETCHER USO appoints new board trustees DOUGLAS MANCHESTER

investments business. Also named to the board was Sister Rita Magma, the head of the Religious of the Sacred Heart in San Fran• cisco. Their terms ate for five

Cork, · an organization aimed at helping alcohol- lC'S; Kim Fletcher, presi- dent and manager of Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of San Diego ; and Douglas Manchester president of Torrey Enter'.

The University of San Diego has announced the appointment of four new trustees to the school's 34- member bOard. San Diegans named in- clude ,Joan Kroc, wife of Padres owner Ray Kroc and founder of Operation

prises, a San Diego-based years.