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THE SOUTHERN CROSI; THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1969

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Editor's Note to the graduatea-4( thc Universiti, of' Sa11 Diego . Lt. Col. William A Anders said faith, }lope and Charity are, "a.• ever they were," man's "guu!.mg stars'.' jhTOU{lh life. Col Anders spoke last Sunday, June 1, at the un ·ty's Commencement Exercius at the Cnnc Theater he-re. The text of his uddress follow. · Life is composed of points of departure, from which we eith r st(•p forward to achieve or hesitate and mi sour opportunities. Comm nccment is one such point of departure. For you grad• uates it brings th r ality of life outside the comparative shelter of the campus, outsid the direction of tutors, lecturers, teachers, In his addre.

to n life where you have to make your own major deci• sion , and a ess your own cupabihhes You w11! probably find th t important dcc1s1ons cone rmng your future arc often difficult lo make on your own. A re peeled lldvi er or mine recently told lo move onward prof ssional development. Sulficit·nlly Prepared~ Wh •n opportunities arise you m..iy wond r if you are really rc.idy . re you sufficiently prepared·1 His advice to me was tha l if you have some nagging doubts , then the time 1s prot · bly right. If you wait until you have convinced yourself that you are r ady , then you have probably waited too long and might have mis ·ed your chance Don 't u ·e such a criterion as an excuse for insufficient preparation, but on the other hand don ' t be too critical of your own capabilities when making important decisions concerning your life and points of depar- ture I suppose the most important po111t of departure in my life huppcncd 68 hours , 58 minutes and 6 econd after Apollo 8 had ll•It Cape Kennedy last D ccmber lt was at that second in me th..1t on should lway slnv ·

that our spacecraft vanished behind the moon's edge, and we were out of touch with earth. Our signals vanished from the ntric te communications equipment across the world and centered on Mission Control, Man, for the first time, was completely outside the earth's mflu nee and control. Voices Across Space Mis ion control in Houston had just called across space: "Safe journey you guys." and I answered for the crew "Thanks a lot, troops. We'll see you on Uie other side." For minutes we remained "lost" to the world, going into orbit 70 miles above the moon. And we came around the other side of the moon, man's "leap into the unknown" ac- complished. But of course it was not a leap mto the unknown. It was a carefully planned minutely calculated step, as is every single second of space flight. We were riding in a space• craft around the moon within a mile ofour prescribed position and within a second of our prescribed timing. These things do not happen by chance, only by hard work and the steady· application of knowledge and technology for which this nation has become famous.

w~s held for the three schools. Astronaut Anders was the principal speaker of the day.

on speakers' platform at the graduation ceremollJ in Civic Theater last Sunday. It marked the second time that a joint commencement

UNIVERSITY 011:NltARIES .... Administrative officials and faculty members of the Uni of San Diqo's three schools are shown

the world ... ll does not promise generation ol Aristotles or Newtons, of Napoleons or Washingtons, or Shakespeares, ilis the education which gives a' man a clear, conscious view of his own op1111ons and judgements, a truth in developing them, and a force in urglllg them. It shows him how to accommodate himself to others... lie knows when lo speak, and when to be silent..." ' I would like to add , anq I suspect Cardinal Newman wou id agree, that a llhough a good educational background gi vcs one the basis to be a contribullng member of society, 11 is the actual experience ot adult life that tempers U1is basis and develops 1l into a truly constructive force. Your futures lie ahead. Work hard, keep learning, be honest lo yourself, your family, your fellow men and your God Accept tlie challenges of our dynamic times and you will find that life will be a wonderfut experience. Good luck aod thank you. * * • informed of developments they occured. As JIE'l, our efforts to obtain public financial support for the university have not borne much fruit. But we are on our wa Help will come when the aims of the university are better known and especially when people realize wha l the university means to our community. Brighter days are ahead for all of us. I hope and I believe that brighter days are ahead for all institutions of highe 1 learning. In the meantime, Jct me repeat what I said last fa)J.: "The University is of the Die,. cese, by the Diocese and for the Diocese. It shall not per• ish from the earth." Uta t our special contribution !\l the American intellectual sce11¢ may be to insist on the con.. s1deralion and discussion of ultimate questions and ultimate values. The heart of the matter of academic freedom in Catholic colleges and universities is not fundamentally in science oc literature or sociology, but OJ theology. Here our record may not be too good precisely because our institutions have not developed distinction in theology. With the developmegl of more trained theologians this may be changing even now. What is also developing is a (Continued on Page 9)

Unfortunately the present state of development of mankind often means disagreeable actions, use of force, personal restriction, war, to establish those things Uta t truly peace-loving and free men hope for. It is lov and peace in Uie long term which are hardest to acluev yet the only ones worU1 strivil for. Don't be sucked in by short term im- provement. Moving Ahead Your beautiful University of San Diego is, like so much of life today, going through a period of change. It is moving ahead, adapting itself to the ndds of rapidly changing limes. At a time when higher education is undergoing extensive and searching self-examination, it is pertinent and rewarding lo remember some words by that great exponent of University life, Cardinal Newman: "If tlien a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society .. .Its end is fitness for * * * nowledgeable laymen an laywomen. Countless meetings have been held between trustees of the university and trustees of the College for Women. I would like to pay special tribute to Bishop Quinn, provost of the Univer- sity, to Mother Frances Danz and Sister Nancy Morris of the College for Women, to Father Baer and Dean Sinclitico. Father Eagen, Chancellor of the Diocese of San Diego, and Mr. O'Neill Martin, our diocesan attorney, have labored in season and out of season working out numberous details that had to be agreed upon. Mr. Newman, director of the Office of Public lnforma tion, has seen lo it that the public was religious as professional men and women, will have the same rights and responsibilities as lay· faculty. Commitment to the significance of the spiritual and moral implications of all human questions is or should be characteristic of Catholic colleges and universities. I fail to see that such commitment makes us any less free than a commitment to relativism, atheism, secular humanism, or whalever. To insist on the basic importance of philosophical anu• theological dimensions is not to deny academic freedom. Riesman and Jencks suggest faculty,

But what always has to be remembered is that whenever you seek to change, it must be change brought about by in- troducing omething better and something U1a t can be prac- tically accomplished, not change which simply destroys without any substitute or b~ impractical utopias. History shows us that good and permanent changes develop slowly. Work for the betterment of your surround- ings but don't destroy them in the process. Charity is the most difficult and yet most effective "guiding star" because it means concern for others; considera lion for others. It means love and peace; words whose meanings have become garbled in an age when communications have been improved to the extent that we have too much. Love and peace are two words which your generation has enshrined. But U1ey demand more than mere physical demonstration. They demand sacrifice and giving in the widest sense. And Uiey call never be interpreted as avoiding your responsibilities. • * * unification of many depart- ments". This mean that my prayer and my Qlea were answered. Much, very much, has been accomplished during the short space of one year. As typical examples of ad- mirable cooperation, may I mention the first joint Con- vocation of Honors Students; the firstcombihed Homecoming celebrations by alumni of all three schools on the campus; the merger of the two un- dergraduate Student Bodies and the consequent election of of- ficers. Both the university and the College for Women have added additional members to their Boards of Trustees. including relationship between the Catholic college or university on the one hand and the Bishops and the Magisterium on the other. If the institution is in the service of the Church, it is not the Church or the Magisterium. As a civil corporation, under a state charter and lay control, the Catholic college may be a bridge between the Church and the world, but, organizationally, it is not directly responsible to either. Significant Academically Another important area of change in Catholic colleges and universities can be observed in the faculties of these in- stitutions. Here the change has been gradual and it is still going on, but its effects have been and are most significant academically. · lfhere was a time when faculties in Catholic colleges and universities were largely members of the religious congregations which ran the schools. Lay faculty members were relatively few in number and in some respects they were second-class citizens - fill-ins by reason of an insufficient number of religious. Today in the vast majority of Catholic colleges the lay faculty are in the majority. Obviously this is bound to have its effect on the colleges and on the role of the faculty. More importantly, the presence of large numbers of well-trained laymen has ac- celerated emphasis on professionalism and com- petence for all faculty- lay and religious alike. When ·professionalism and com- petence become the hallmarks, institutions are bound to im-

which demands the teamwork of faith in people. NASA space flights depend on teamwork, on faitlt in- our fellow workers, from the aerospace workers here in San Diego who build parts of our spacecraft, to the radio technicians in isola led lands who monitor our craft and maintain the communication links during our flight. So, even if at times you may wonder whether you are justified in having faith in men, keep al it. And as for you1 faith in God, you have only to go out to see our small beautiful planet against the black backdrop of space as I have, to realize the full and overpowering truth of God's creation. From your faith in man and God will naturally come hope. Hope for yourself, hope for the world, hope for a better life to come. I am not speaking of the individual material "better life," but the hope for a better world, aided and guided by your generation, in which all that you dislike can be wiped out and the new order which you would like to see initiated and perfected. * * * never how much your Christmas Eve message meant to all of us last year. That was from away up in the Heavens. Your message this afternoon was down to earth. We appreciate it. Al oµr combined com- mencementexercises last year, I made an impassioned plea for public and private support in our efforts to bring about a corporate merger of the various components of our university. Just a few days ago, Father Baer, president of the College for Men, was able to state, "With the start of the new academic year in the fall, we shall have completely coor- dinated courses and the know problems such as war, race and c poverty. As a result tile university is no longer set apart, it is losing its role of critical objective analysis, it is becoming political, or at least the dissidents would have it so. The history of Latin American universities should be a war- ning to us about the effects of the politicizing process. Perhaps, too, what happened in Germany in the early '30's can teach us something about action and reaction between extremes. Catholic colleges and universities are undergoing change also. Let me consider briefly three significant areas of change. Some Catholic colleges and universities have in recent years placed laymen on their boards of trustees. Many more are in the process of doing so. In many cases this means a shift from clerical control to lay control. Board is Boss It is the board which owns the institutions, if anyone does. It is the board which makes the basic policy decisions, appoints the pn!sident, approves the budget. Where this kind of. change takes place it may not make headlines but it is profound. Certainly it gives laymen great responsibilities for Catholic institutions. At the same time it provides Religious increased freedom for intellectual en- deavor. The arrangement permits a much clearer distinction between the good of the institution and the good of the religious order or congregation. This form of governance may offer a better solution to the very own. You'll

But the storm of anger and hate engendered by the destroyers of our campuses has no beauty, no redeeming.feature, seen from a distance or close-up. Man, we have proved, can navigate by the stars, as we navigated to the moon, witll split second accuracy. But are we seeing, by the discordant notes on earth itself, that some men have lost their personal sen e of direction, their navigational aids for earth- bound life? What are man's aids in his progress through the tenuous pa tbs of life? What are his fixes for navigation? Stars or Direction Surely they are, as ever they were, the three guiding stars ci faith, hope, and charity. Man must have faith in himself, in his fellow men and, most of all in God. There is not one of you graduating today who can take one siQgle step in life without faith, ~t least in •yourself, and in your own ability. And you must have faith in your fellow human beings, because without it you can never start on the road of life * .. * In a refer- ence to the prayer in space uttered by the Apollo 8 astronauts Most Rev. Francis J. Furey told one of the three, Lt. Col. William A . Anders: ''You'U never know lww much your Christmas Eve mes• sage meant to all ofus last year." Bishop Furey spoke in apprecia- tion of Col. Anders' address to the graduates of the University of San Diego at Civic Center last Sunday, June 1. The text of the Bishop's talkfollows: Colonel Anders I am deeply grateful to you for your in- spiring and timely message. The prayers and good wishes of San Diegans were with all the crew members of Apollo 8, but we said special prayers for you because we feel U1a t you are our Charles G. Casassa, SJ, pnsidev,t of Loyola University of Los An• geles, told the graduates of the University of San Diego that the challenge facing educators is "to make the past as well as .the present relevant to the human situation of today." FDT, he iaid, "... there are philosophical iina. theological realities, bearing on man's experiences and. on his nature and destiny, that have a much longer life than the merely contemporaneous." Father Casassa spoke to the graduates at their Baccalaureate Mass last Saturday, May 31. His address follows: Today it can be debated whether college educators are happier than students to have the academic year end. Surely beleaguered administrators cannot be blamed if they prepare to heave a sigh of relief. Faculty members must find it exhilarating to contemplate a period free from emergency committee meetings, barred classr~ms and occasional picket lines. No newspaper or magazine · today is worth its salt unless it carries news of some campus disturbance or presents an analysis of the situation by some pundit. I would not dare offer an analysis, much less a cure. These are beyond me. I would point outfirst that scarcely 50 of the nation's 2,500 colleges and universities have been seriously disrupted this year. Secondly - and more seriously - I would observe that the American university and college have become a forum for those who have lost faith in the power of traditional political institutions to provide solutions for national Editor's Note - • *

we - Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and I - we are products or the American edttcatli>hal system, like you. We had to apply our knowledge 240,000 miles away as we flew around the moon. We applied it in our years of training before the flight, as in every second of the flight itself. This application paid off for us as it will for you. Tribute to Knowledge The whole achievement of space flight, as exemplified by the success of the space program, is a tribute to knowledge from the campuses of United States centers of higher education. Yet today, as we look around the campus scene, there is the tragedy and torture of unrest, disturbance and destruction. Famous campuses have become storm centers. From space we could clearly see etched on the face of the nation nature's own storm centers. The swirling, threatening cloud of nature's havoc has aspects of awesome beauty when seen from thousands of miles away.

Bishop Lau

Col. Anders

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text of Unn•emty of San Diego citation to I.t . Col. William A rule rs on pr.•sentatlon of honor ary docto-r of science degree at purp ·e of a University is the quest for knowledge, testing the unknown and the constant Challe ge Facing Educators Cited < Co,1tmued om Paye BJ la.~t Sunday's commencement. If, as we all believe, the

be no greater and per onifica !ton those quahties than the young and courageous American whom we honor today. This man has helped to push the frontiers of knowledge beyond themselves . 'He knowingly ventured into the vastness of space on a journey wluch for a II time will stand as one of the epic voyages of mankind. He was one of the first men to the moon. And from that dramatic flight around the moon last Christmas Eve, he sent back to earth a message which expressed the eternal hope and destiny of men everywhere: "In the beginning God.. ........... " Enshrined in History The name of William A. Anders is enshrined now in the hi tory of man's exploration, alongside the great explorers of history, from Columbus to Scott. Born in Hong Kong 35 years ago while his father was serving out his own illustrious career in the United States Navy, Lt. Col William Anders, a gradua le of the United States Naval Academy, was commissioned as an officer in the Air Force. He earned his master of science degree in nuclear engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright Pa tlerson Air Force Base, Ohio, in 1962, and is a member of the American Nuclear Society. As a fighter pilot in all- weather interceptor squadrons of the Air Defense Command and later as a nuclear engineer and instructor pilot at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Kirtland, New Mexico. he exhibited those qualities of vitality, capability and thirst for knowledge ideally fitted for the most exacting personal and physical task of our era - exploration outside man ' s normal environment. ln&l"I~~ s selected by the Nat na1 rohautics and Space Administration as one of those select few on whom this nation has bestowed the ti tie •·astronaut". les age from Space The inspira lion which Col. Anders brings to our ceremonies today springs not only from his historic flight around the moon on Christmas Eve but also from the message from space of belief m God which has become part of the legend of that amazing a vement. The words of Genesis have sur ly never had so much meaning nor so great an audience around the world. Religion, for Col. Anders, has inspiring of

we have the courage to insist that there are philosophical and tl1cological realities, bearing on man's experiences and on his nature and destiny, that have a much longer life Iha n the merely contemporaneous. What is more relevant than man himself, with his visions and l11s failures, his goodness and his ugliness, his hopes and his disappointinents? Our cha liege as educators is to make the past as well as the present relevant to the human silua lion of today. It may be that we have not done too well on tlus, and on this score students may rightly complain. A Nt'w Sacrament Many of today's students have discovered a new sacrament in service to the poor and the disadvantaged. Can we rightfully discourage or disparage this? Is not this a following of Christ's command about the hungry and the naked? Should we not find new and creative outlets for the 1d lism and generoc;ity of such student ? Giv n the ap• propn le :afeguarcts, is it impossibl to give academic credit to student~ who eek a practical outlet for socrnlogy, or economics, or pohtical science, for example, in service to the hving laborato of people in the mner city? utholic olleges and univ rsitic share the problems of all higher education today; th y hare the financial dif- ficulti of all private higher cducahon; they have their own uniq areas o change. On balance, arc not Uil' e areas of chang g movements? If they are, as J th111k they are, th n I woul venture to say that as thost• of you who graduate today from the Umvcrsity of San Diego graduate from an mst,tulion much cha, ed from what it was ten year ago, tho ·e who graduate ten years hence wtll gradua tc from a still better and strong r institution into a world wluch will not be the best of II p iblc worlds but which through your infl11e11c an leadership may also be better and stronger. May God's blessing be with you .

more prof rnd analysis of the role of the teaching theologian and of his rela ltonslup lo the Church' s Iagister1um. The lheolog,an 1. not U1e Church leaching, but theology rn a Catholic university must have the same freedom and autonomy a any other academic discipline; otherwise tl 1s not a true university discipline and, without Its presence 111 open dialogue with all other academic disciplines, the university will never really be Ca tholtc. We shall go through ome painful crises which will be disturbing to many before we conw lo a viable and well- understood pos, t10n of the diffcrrng roles of bi hops and thcolngians, and the relation• ship between the two. Sludl'nts' Catchword No one can talk of change in higher education today without talking of the students them- selves. Among them change 1s there for all to cc. This is the tlurd of the three areas o change I referred to earlier. Rcll'vancy has become a cat- chword among students . I[ r{•lcvancy mean an education winch prepare one to live and work in the real world of today, why light it? If relevancy means no more, than bemg contemporaneous, both we and the student~ are berng taken in. In th1. sense, what is relevant today - like today's n wspaper may be out of d.ite tomorrow. What is important to man today has to t,e relevant to th pr s ·nt, but 1t also has rooL~ 111 lhl' pa t and should have m aning for the future. Surely ttus 1s the case with th really reil'vunt issues !hat have faced man yesl!•rday, today and will tacl· 1nm again tomorrow Edu uu•., ot /\mus(' To (•duca I<· ra th r th n amuse stud •nL, the coll(•ge has to re!lisl a . upervicial nownt· . One thinks h<•rc of Santayunu' word, about those who ignore In. tory, or Hobert ~·rost' · dictum - don't tear down an old fl·nct• until you know why it' tht•rt•. lh•rc tlw Catholic· coll ge and university may lake the lead ii

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been a living, integral part of his whole life. His devotion as a Catholic, to the religious principles for which this university exists, is that of a man whose knowledge and mastery of the technicalities of the space age is equal to his belief in the omnipotent wisdom, truth and love of God who created this universe which, through the astronauts, we now explore. The University of San Diego is proud today to bestow the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, on one of America's most daring and illustrious sons, whose trust in God and belief in the destiny of U1e United States is exemplified by every facet of his family and official life - Lt. Col. William A. Anders.

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