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Volume XXXII, Number 23
University of Dallas. Irving, Texas
May 7, 2003
Church may give more to campus ministry
by Janet Hendrickson
Editor in Chief
The finance committee of the
Church of the Incarnation will
meet with the president of the
university this week in hopes of
reaching a compromise on the
president's earlier proposal to
have the church take over all of
campus ministry funding for the
next three years in order to help
alleviate the university's
financial crunch.
Msgr. Milam Joseph,
president of the university,
proposed the move early last
month.
"I'm just asking, because it's
a funding source, 'Can you do a
little more?"' he said
The finance committee sent
a letter to the president with a
budget proposal and financial
statements about the Church's
contribution to campus ministry
Monday, Dr. John Norris,
chairman of the Church's
finance committee, said. The
committee and the president
hope to have the decision made
by the end of the month so that
it can take effect for the next
fiscal year, beginning in June.
Norris could not reveal the
details of the proposal, but he
said the committee decided the
university would have to
contribute in some part to the
campus ministry budget.
"The committee believes that
it faithfully represents the
congregation's desire to help
student ministry at the
University of Dallas," he said.
"Yet the committee recognizes
that the university should and
must have financial
responsibilities of its own in
campus ministry and cannot
expect the church to fund the
entire bill for the program:
Joseph emphasized that his
proposal is "not to be taken in
any way as a lessening of the
university's commitment to
campus ministry," and cited the
$2.6 million Dominican priory
that the university built as an
example of the school's support.
He said he thought the
Church had the resources to
commit more for the next three
years.
"They do have revenue. They
do have money in savings," he
said.
Norris said that "the Church
desires to do all it can to help
fund campus ministry within
reason, making sure to be
fiscally responsible." He said
that at the same time as the
committee tries to make cuts in
the campus ministry budget, it
see Church, page 4
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Freshman Nick Frei,
in an attempt to
escape a potentially
dangerous water
fight, shimmied up
the trellis outside
Gorman Hall. Frei
remained perched in
this position for
several minutes,
wary of approaching
CSO officers, before
climbing back down.
Photo by Meghan
Kuckelman
Best Buddies named
Chapter of the i&ar
tor Texas, Louisiana
Christine Mahon
Contributing Writer
UD's Best Buddies chapter
was awarded Chapter of the Year
at the regional competition last
Monday. The states of Texas and
Louisiana are included in the
region.
Brooke Tucker, freshman ac-
tivities coordinator, was
awarded Outstanding Officer.
"Brooke has been excellent this
year. She really stepped up dur-
ing the five weeks that I was
looking at graduate schools,"
Kathy Kloepper, senior College
Buddy director said.
Kloepper was also recog-
nized as an Outstanding Officer
this year.
Senior member Brendan
Cronin and his buddy Fred Cobb
were awarded Outstanding
Buddy Recognition .
In the past years, the UD
chapter has received the inter-
national recognition award. It
hopes to receive the award again
this year but has not yet been
notified.
Kloepper said there are two
different kinds of Best Buddies
memberships.
A matched member is one
who is assigned to work with a
buddy. An associate member is
one who does not have a spe-
cific buddy but participates in all
See Award, page 2
Speaker addresses utility, ethics o: embryonic research
by Tom Thoits
Contibuting Writer
The debate on embryonic
stem cell research has been
misdirected, and "hype claims"
should be discriminated from
"truth claims," a Catholic priest
and neuroscientist said Friday.
The utilitarian end of "saving
and improving life" has become
the center of debate, Fr. Tadeusz
Pacholczyk, Ph.D., said. He
stressed the need to move
beyond this current focus in his
talk, Cloning, Stem Cells, and
Research with Human Embryos.
"People try to pull on
heartstrings, stressing the
prospect of saving life," he said.
This "superficial approach"
ignores the human life destroyed
in the process of embryonic
research, he implied.
Pacholczyk began by
addressing the biological
questions regarding the
"beginnings of
life and the ends
of science."
Pacholczyk
described the stem
cell as an
"undifferentiated
cell that can give
rise to cellular
regeneration and
growth." Stem
cell therapy
introduces a fresh source of
cells, encouraging healing, he
said. These cells can be used to
repair a "wide range" of
conditions, such as Parkinson's,
leukemia, diabetes, and many
People try to
pull on
heartstrings,
stressing the
prospect of
saving life...
ailments in other parts of the
body.
There are two basic types of
stem cells, he said, eidier from
"embryonic" or
"adult" sources.
Adult type stem
cells, usually from
adult tissue
sources, can give
rise to a finite
number of cell
types.
Embryonic
stem cells tend to
be more versatile
and are able to regenerate many
of the 220 different bodily cell
types. These stem cells are taken
from a human embryo that needs
them for development, he said,
necessitating its destruction.
Adult stem cells can be
harmlessly derived from the
umbilical cord, as well as from
many adult sources such as the
liver and pancreas—in fact, he
said, fat from liposuction is a
"rich source" of stem cells.
Pacholczyk cited several
examples of successful therapy
based on adult stem cells,
including an 11-year old boy
who recovered from a blood
disease, sickle cell anemia.
Recent studies have shown
that adult stem cells are more
versatile than scientists had
previously thought, Pacholczyk
said. Claims are "highly
exaggerated" that embryonic
research is essential to stem cell
progress, he said.
Embryonic research presents
moral issues that are
"intrinsically problematic," with
its necessary destruction of
human life, Pacholczyk said.
There are several ways to
acquire embryonic stem cells, he
said, and in vitro fertilization is
one method. After the
laboratory fertilization has taken
place, he said; and when the
embryo reaches the pre-fetal
stage, the "inner cell mass" is
removed to create a stem cell
culture.
The removal of the inner cell
mass, he said, causes the
destruction of the embryonic
life, and this is where the moral
question arises.
Another, "alternative source"
See Research, page 4
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Hendrickson, Janet & Kuckelman, Meghan. The University News (Irving, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 7, 2003, newspaper, May 7, 2003; Irving, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth201566/m1/1/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Dallas.