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Volume XXXII, Number 4
University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
September 18, 2002
Charity Week 2002
The Groundhog gives it up
Photo courtesy of Janet Hendrickson
Father Robert Maguire attempts to escape from the Charity Week jail, a traditional fundraiser
hosted by the senior class, during Charity Week of fall 2000.
by Meghan Kuckelman
News Editor
The junior class hopes to raise
over $20,000 for local charities
during this year's Charity Week.
"In the past it's hovered right
around $16,000 to $18 000,"
Charity Week co-chair Adam
Toodsaid. "We'dlike to break the
record."
The theme for the week this
year is The Groundhog gives it up:
Charity Week 2002. Ain't nobody
hoggin' this year.
Todd and co-chair Kristin
Vilbig came up with the theme this
summer.
"We only had three actual
weeks of school to plan Charity
Week," Todd said. ''Kristin and I
had to come up with a theme on
our own."
The groundhog theme will be
easy to relate to different activi-
ties throughout the week, Todd
said.
Four charities were chosen this
year to receive money: the Low
Birthweight Clinic, a clinic that
specializes in neo-natal care of
infants born addicted to controlled
substance; Angel Flight, an orga-
nization of volunteer pilots who
provide free transportation for
patients and organ transplants; the
Gabriel Project, which provides
help for women with crisis preg-
nancies; and a local food bank.
Several new fundraisers have
been added this year to help reach
the goal of $20,000. Save or
Shave, an activity held several
years ago, will be brought back to
life this year. Students will vol-
unteer to shave their heads if a
cert ain amount of money is raised.
"It has the potential to be a big
event," Todd said.
A food-eating contest will take
see Charity Week p. 4
Recycling program, residence hall computers
among proposals passed at first SG meeting
by Jodi Dickens
Photo Editor
Reinstatement of the campus recycling program was
one of several measures Student Government (SG) passed
in its first meeting Sept. 9.
Among the items passed were the addition of a bike
rack in front of Haggar, a request for one computer and
one printer to be placed in every dorm, and the
reimplementation of a recycling committee. Senators will
now work with various administrative offices to see that
these ideas are carried out.
In their first meeting, the senators brought eight new
motions before the Senate.
"That was pretty good for the first meeting," junior
Jerome Foss, vice president of the Senate, said
Senator Brian Hildebrand will restart the recycling pro-
gram. Students attempted to do so several years ago with-
out success. The details have yet to be worked out, but
"basics like cans and paper" will probably be included,
Foss said.
"I'm excited because there's a lot of enthusiasm among
the senators," senior Mark Villanueva, president of SG,
said.
The Senate has undergone some changes in the way
its meetings are conducted. Robert's Rules of Order,
which govern parliamentary procedure, will be enforced
and senators will be encouraged to use these rules, Foss
said.
"One major change is the creation of a main motion
form. This helps keep track of what [motions are] ac-
cepted and rejected in the meetings," he said.
Before meetings, Senators will write down their pro-
posed motions. At the end of the meeting, the forms will
be collected and kept on file as a permanent record of
the Senate's transactions.
To help senators learn the complexities of Robert's
Rules of Order, SG required them to attend training be-
fore the first meeting.
see SG p, 4
C ompletion of new
Dominican priory
slated for January
by Lincy George
Contributing Writer
Construction of the new Dominican priory is well un-
derway and scheduled to be completed this January, Rob-
ert Galecke, vice president of finance, said last week.
Located northeast of the Holy Trinity Seminary, the new
priory site is accessible through Vince Hagan Drive from
Highway 114.
"I think there are about 10 fathers living there [in the
current priory], Enough sleeping quarters for 14 [will be
in the new priory]," Galecke said.
"A chapel, a community room, a library for the fathers,
and a kitchen for dining" also will be in the new priory,
Galecke said.
Total cost of the construction is $2.5 million.
"the university plans to build a University Center on the
site of the present priory. "We wanted [the core campus]
to stay close," and the site "is ideal for the long term de-
velopment of the Irving campus," Galecke said.
Galecke further explained that the present Dominican
priory, built in early 1960's, is old and needs repair. The
fathers "have been constrained to get it fixed up," he said.
Explaining the importance of the Dominicans to the
university, Galecke said, "They were part of the original
priests, along with the Cistercians," when the university
began.
"We've worked hard to find a way to restore Domini-
can presence on campus," he said.
Because of "a shortage of Diocesan priests," the uni-
versity needed Dominican help "to staff the chapel [and]
the religious life aspect of the university," he said.
"After some months of negotiations, they agreed to pro-
vide a chaplain" and accepted the university's proposal of
a new priory, he said.
Father Jeffery Ott of campus ministry and Father Charles
Latour of Student Life are Dominicans.
The three acres of the present priory site belongs to the
Dominicans, Galecke said.
Capital Campaign raised funds specifically for the con-
struction of the new Dominican priory. Funds came "from
people who follow the Dominicans and people who felt
strongly about them in the university community," he said.
Fundraising for construction of the University Center
is in Phase 2 of Capital Campaign, and its construction
will begin after completion of fundraising, Galecke said.
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Photo by Robin Latiolais
Construction on the new Domincan priory is slated
for completion this January. Ten Dominican friars
will live in the priory, though there will be room
for 14.
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