News Scrapbook 1970-1972

EVEN/HG T.RIIUNE San Church can't give pat to moral query, priest says

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verse Thomas Aquinas and dther Scholas- tics, the church promoted its version of the truth in papal en- cyclicals, pastoral letters and catechisms. All used argu- ments based on the Scholastic vision of a wuverse operating in an orderly fashion on the basis of fixed, discernible principles or laws, Father Wieser said. This approach was reflect- ed ma raft of moral theology manuals offering detailed an- swers to all sorts of moral problems. Moreover, the "voluntanshc notion of ~u- thority" - that the church could resolvP all moral doubts practically by fiat - prevailed, the p1iest said. "Today in a pluralistic society this traditional ap- proach has expcnenced an al- mo t total !lapse. It just doesn't wor'li he said. One reas'

of lectures on consci Our Lady of Grace Church. Father Wieser believes the true source of morality is in Christian faith - not "philos- ophy or logical argument.s" designed to appeal to the in- tellect and ht all situallons in advance. He says this approach worked for the church in past centuries only because it op- erated in ' an atmosphere or conformity" produced by a church-controlled system of education, consensus philos0• phy and what he calls "a vol- untarisllc motion of author- ity." A vast school system and general acceptance of the same basic philosophy en- abled the church to spread its own moral values sig- nificantly free of secular in- fluences, he said. Moreover, usmg the gene •. ally accepted view of the uni> e at olic

ROBERT Dr VEROLI IVIHIHG TRIBUNE RtHtlen Writtr People can no longer de• pend on the church to give them "pat answers" to all moral questions, according to the Rev. Francis Wieser of the University of San Diego. He ~ays the modern style or moral decision-making relics more on personal life situ- ations, their context and faitl1 m Chnst than on authonty or abstract reasoning. Father Wieser, professor of moral theology at USD, says the appcaJ to authority or log- 1cal arguments based on an elaborate philosophical sys- tem no longer is effective among most people today. Ther are so many differ- tlrt philosophies offering so many alternatives that the church's view on any moral question simply becomes one among many, Father Wieser said m the second m a series

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Irish luncheon ¾7,, is scheduled A4"~" Members of the University of- San Diego Auxiliary will meet for an Irish potluck luncheon at noon Tuesday in the Aegean Room of the Atlantis Restaurant. Cochairmen are Mrs. John M. Murphy and Mrs Frank J. O'Connor. Others assisting are Mmes. Ross G. Tharp of Point Loma and Leo J. Durkin, decorations: John E. Handley and George A. Kiligas, door; John G Churchill, Robert B. Simons, Harold N. Stoflet, Harold F. Tebbetts, Ernest P. Tovani and Paul A. Vesco Sr., hostesses, and Frank A. Lauerman, Carl E. Sengyel and R. Kenneth Whitney, reservations. Mrs William K. Buckley of La Jolla, president, will be seated with the honored guests. They are the Rt. Rev Msgr , John Baer, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. J . Brent Eagen, and Dr Author E. Hughes Jr., president of the university

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USD tuition based on per-unit charge for fall

president, says the trustees have adopted a new lui lion structure which raises the unit cost to $55 for un- dergraduate students and $60 for graduates If the university had remained on the former "flat rate'· tuition for the coming year the charge for the average fulltime tudent would have be n $785 per semester Under the new schedule the cost will rise to $860 per semester. on. HUGHES, in his letter, says that the revbion ol the tuition rate is "part of the university's vigorous planning for the future."

TUITION OSTS at the University of San Diego will rise for the next acadcm ic year. In a letter sent to all students and parents Dr. Author E. Hughes, Jr., USD

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l{iwanians hear Dr. A. Hughes Dr. Author E Hughes, Plateau

Environmental Advisory Council, and was a member in 1969 of the Arizona Town Hall on Economic Development. In Flagstaff he was president of the board of directors of Kiwanis International, past vice president and member of the board of the Chamber of Commerce. and fund chairman and member of the board for both the Flagstaff Symphony Association and the Salvation Army. Dr. Hughes has had 14 years in teaching including accounting. data processing, management, and business education. and seven years at the secondary level. He holds degrees in the field of business, with a bachelor of science in business education. a master of arts in education, and a Ph.D. m business administration from thr Univer ity of Iowa in 1960. . Kiwanian of the Day Dave Cherry, h1msel1 a faculty member of the ni11~rsity, will introduce the speaker.

president University of San Diego, is lo speak to the La Jolla Kiwanis club members at their luncheon meeting at noon March in La Jolla Presbyterian Church ·s Kirk House·. The appointment of Hughes as the first President to serve both the Umversi ty of San' Diego and the coordinate San Diego College for Women was announced on June 8. 1971. Following a long and arduous 12-month search. Hughes had been selected from a field of 238 applicants. Hughes was Vice President and Provost of Northern Arizona University at Flagstaff at the time of his selection He had been vice president and provost for the University for two years and prev10usly dean of the College of Business Administration f01 four years. A member of various professional organizations m business administration. he was chairman of the executive committee of the Colorado

chestra and con<:ert choi will be featured v.ith oprano Mary Ann CappS, • Ito Goldie Sinegal and bas· Raymond East.

ed at 4 this afternoon in USD's Camino Theater under the direction of music depart- ment chairman Dr. Henry Kolar. The university's or-

Lawrence Brullp, compo,er of piano, violin and chorus compositions, as well as an artist, will have a new ~an- tata premiered at the_ Univer- sity of San Diego this after- noon. Tuesday, the San Diego A_rt Institute in Balboa Park w1_ll open a show of mixed media art works featuring . Bru~o along with another arhst, Vic Heiman. . .. Brullo began his art1shc studies in 1938 at the Hull House Art School in Chicago where he also studied at t~e Midwestern School ?f_ Music· He served as a viol1U1st with the San Diego Symphony from 1963-65 and has won many art awards and pnzes in Southern California. As a composer Brullo . spe- cializes in music for piano, violin and chorus, his newest piece being a cantata of two movements orchestrated fo_r string instuments, tymparu, chorus and three solo v01ce.;; entitled '·Good Friday and Easter Dialogue•" The cantata will be present-

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO By f,,;STf::B RUVALC B

!any seniors In n n-professlonal majors have same ap- rl'hen Ion about graduating: they don't want to teach but r n't prepared for much else. On of tile c seniors Is Deirdre Kennedy, 21, who's divided h Um betv.een an English major and drama minor "I'~ gomg to th_e best-read drapery sales~oman at .'.'ilacy s, t ),ear, .Miss Kennedy said of her educational predicament. Since ~e has no compulsion to teach, Miss Kennedy said she

Mrs. Dattan dies, noted USDworker PASADENA - Mrs. Eve- lyn Angerhofer Dattan, a Protestant who was a charter member and later president of the ~~versit)'. of San Diego Auxiliary, died here at the age of 51. She was the wife of Howard Dattan when he was dean of the USD Law School and worked hard for its library and scholarship program. In 1959 Mrs. Dalian was cited as a Woman of Valor by Temple Beth Israel for her services to the community. Born in Aberdeen, S. D., she had lived in San Diego since 1952 until she moved to Pasadena a few months ago.

probably will seek a job for which she had no academic preparation. But Miss Kennedv's back- ground in drama, literature and music ideally suits her cun-ent campus activity as director and producer of USD's spring musical review. The production still un- titled, will be a casual look at music of the past, Miss Ken- nedy said. The production will also be good training for the career she would really like. While Miss Kennedy prob- ably won't see the drapery department at Macy's, she would like to become a re- searcher of folklore and folk

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music m An1 •nca ,ind Western Europe. Smee that takes "about 25 years' worth of work," she said her English traunng might qualify her for ghost writing or magazine editing That 1s, until feaching becomes more attractive to Miss Ken- nedy and other lib rat rts m jors, or new career opportu- wll so n up. Tib.uu. ?:. I f'/7~

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Alcala Trio Recital Due Today

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Composition by Beethoven and Sho ako\'itch will be performed at 3 30 this after- noon by the Alcala Trio in the University of San Diego Cam-

The trio composed of Holin• i t Henry Kolar, cellist Illar- jorie Hart and pianist Ilana :ll)sior will pla} Beethor~n·s