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BJ N IVERSITY&N E WS
Volume XXXV, Number 3
University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
September 21, 2005
Review of the Core Curriculum proposed
by Mary Chadwick
■ news editor
Dean Charles Eaker announced
at the first University of Dallas
Faculty Senate Meeting of the
2005-2006 school year that he
plans to review the Constantine
College Core curriculum. Dean
Eaker asked for the Senate's coun-
sel at the Sept. 5 meeting.
Not surprisingly, the Dean
heard many different opinions
from Senate members; three main
arguments were made, which Dr.
Scott Crider, Senate Secretary
recorded in the Senate meeting's
minutes:
"Argument 1: The Core is a
precious thing—valued by alum-
ni—and at this moment (after
instability under the last regime
and during a capital campaign),
we should not jump to change the
core; instead, we should review it,
as is our responsibility, and such
a review should be principled,
historically informed, and de-
liberate.
Argument 2: The Core is
strong enough to withstand cri-
tique and reform without alien-
ating alumni since such a change
would indicate the university's
vitality and would increase enroll-
ment; fear of change will lead to
stagnation.
Argument 3: The two argu-
ments above are not necessarily
exclusive in every respect since we
could have a proper review, then
decide whether or not changes are
in order, and, if so, what ones.'5
The Senate then passed a mo-
Freshman, Nick Bastian
defends the core from foes
in Madonna Hall.
photo by Alex Peacher/The
University News
tion to postpone any decisions
until more information was
gathered. Nine favored and seven
opposed the motion. Dean Eaker
will give a detailed explanation at
the Oct. 11 Faculty Senate meet-
ing, explaining what a Core Re-
view would entail, responsibilities
and authorities, and a timeline
for the process.
In other business, the Senate
accepted the Senate's Univer-
sity Committee Membership
Nominations and established
committees to oversee review
of the faculty handbook and
the Provost's role in Rank and
Tenure procedures. Sally Hicks
encouraged faculty members to
attend Alumni Career Panels dur-
ing Alumni Weekend. Finally,
along with review of the Core,
the Senate will look at faculty
hiring, salaries, and a proposal to
establish a assembly.
UD Best Buddies recieves "Outstanding C hapter"award
news editor
by Mary Chadwick with the students involved in the
program.
"More than 7-5 million Ameri-
cans have an intellectual disabil-
ity," the Best Buddies website
explains. "A person with an intel-
lectual disability is one who, from
childhood, develops at a below
average rate. As a consequence,
the person experiences unusual
difficulty in learning and has
difficulty in applying the skills
needed for daily living."
Best Buddies does not base
their diagnosis of intellectual dis-
abilities on IQ, although an IQ
of 70 — 80 is the typical cut-off
point. The diagnosis is also based
on impaired adaptive behavior,
which includes disabilities such as
Fragile X Syndrome, which causes
The University of Dallas chap-
ter of Best Buddies received an
"outstanding chapter" award this
summer.
UD was one of ten chapters to
receive this recognition. The pro-
gram consists of "1,000 middle
school, high school, and college
campuses across the country and
internationally," the Best Bud-
dies website, www.bestbuddies.
org states.
Best Buddies a non-profit
organization founded in 1989
by Anthony Kennedy Shriver,
provides those who are intellectu-
ally disabled with the opportunity
to make one-on-one friendships
mental impairment due to chro-
mosomal mutations, Down Syn-
drome, meningitis, and more.
Best Buddies is not only work-
ing towards developing the social
skills of its participants; the pro-
gram also works to integrate those
with disabilities into a guided and
supported work environment.
"The President's Committee
on the Employment of People
with Disabilities has recognized
Best Buddies Jobs as a national
model of supported employment
focusing on white collar and
other non traditional employment
opportunities for people with
cognitive disabilities," the website
explains.
The UD chapter focuses on the
social aspect of the group.
"Our chapter has picnics, Hal-
loween, Christmas and Valentines
parties, we host Special Olympics,
and go on outings to the zoo, all
kinds of activities," senior and Best
Buddies volunteer Anh Nguyen
said.
UD members can be involved
in Best Buddies in two different
ways: associate members and
best buddies. An associate is a
volunteer who attends the events
hosted by the UD chapter, but is
not a particular participant's one-
on-one. A best buddy is matched
with a participant and not only
attends the UD events, but makes
personal contact.
"They [UD chapter] recom-
mended that we made direct
contact with our buddy at least
once a week, by calling them.
Then once every two weeks we
would go out with our buddies;
we took them to the park or
walked around the mall," Nguyen
reported. "My buddy, Angela,
was dating another buddy in the
group so the four of us would go
out together."
"I never saw what I was doing
as volunteer work,' but a chance
to make a friend. It really amazed
me that although my buddy was
disabled, she was able to get on a
bus, go to work, and pay her bills.
I really looked up to her, she was
always happy. I think because we
try to see our buddies as friends
rather than as participants, we can
relax and just hang out. I always
had a good time," said Nguyen.
New priest relates tale of conversion at Dinner and Discourse
by Monica Tomutsa
news editor
Fr. Phillip Powell, campus
minister, born and raised in ru-
ral Mississippi, spoke about his
conversion from Protestantism to
Catholicism at last week's dinner
and discourse.
"When you grow up in rural
Mississippi it usually means one
thing about your religious up-
bringing: it means you're southern
Baptist, and a particular kind of
southern Baptist—you're a funda-
mentalist Southern Baptist.
"My family wasn't particularly
religious, and my father had the
notion that 'the ox was always in
the ditch'. I would complain on
Sundays that we really shouldn't
Fr. Philips
was recently
ordained a
Dominican
Priest in May
2005.
photo by John
Schuler/The
University
News
be working; we should be in
church. Of course I could care less
about church, I just didn't want to
be cutting firewood," he said.
During high school, Powell
was often asked by his Southern
Baptist teachers and friends if he
had "accepted Jesus Christ into
his heart as his personal Lord and
Savior?"
"I was always scared since I
hadn't had that experience as far
as I knew, but I would always say
yes, absolutely," he said.
Until a trip to Mexico with his
high school junior Spanish class,
Powell knew nothing about the
Catholic Church. On the trip,
they visited the Shrine of Our
Lady of Guadeloupe and the Na-
tional Cathedral.
"We stepped off the tour bus
into the piazza in 1981 and the
very first thing I saw was this sea of
black mantillas of all the abuelitas
with their rosaries on their knees
crawling. Their knees were bloody
and they were leaving trails of
blood on the piazza and I turned
to my teacher, who was Catholic,
and asked, 'What was that? What
is going on?'" he said.
"The first thing that attracted
me to this was that this was a
physical expression of the faith
that I had never seen before, and it
absolutely shocked the living day
lights out of me," he continued.
Even though Powell had never
been inside of a Catholic Church,
everything seemed familiar.
"I came back from Mexico
with what I consider a mystical
experience in the cathedral," he
said.
He started to research the
Catholic Church and discov-
ered he felt more and more at
home there. At 17, he decided he
wanted to convert, but shortly
after things changed.
When he went to his college
orientation fair, the Catholic table
was empty. It had some flyers but
no campus minister or priest.
The Episcopalian booth was
only a couple of tables down,
so Powell started to talk to the
Episcopalian priest and decided
to visit his church.
On the way to the Episcopa-
lian church, Powell passed the
Catholic Church, and almost did
not recognize it because it looked
like "a doctor's office". It was an
austere white building with some
pews and a single table at the
front.
"I compared this church with
the church in Mexico and it didn't
feel the same.
"I finished walking to the Epis-
copalian Church. [It had] wooden
pews, lots of brass, nice carpet,
see Conversion on page 3
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