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Residence Life seeks RA’s
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Students needed to fill positions in halls, apartments every semester
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room, a $900 being an RA. Her hall director, Marta Cantu,
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By Heather Kolodzey forefront of discussion when
However, dissatisfaction is not the rule with
RAs. Of the six RAs I spoke with, five were
genuinely happy Considering the RA staff
consists of 22 people, only one upset person
means that Residence Life is doing something
right. A Teresa Hall RA, Kerri Ward, loves
A huge perk
of being an RA
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By Jake McCook
Students entertain themselves by the way of a hypnotist Sun., Feb.
17. The University Programming Board sponsored the event.
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that a resident can turn to for questions had a family emergency, they have time-man- If you are interested in learning more about
and in times of need. Part of the RA job is agement problems, or for a variety of other RA positions, contact the Office of Residence
to manage crises typical of college fife, academic or personal reasons. Life in the Main Building (Room 108).
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The English writing major is gram at the University of Texas
scheduled to undergo some for feedback. The UT program
changes starting in the fall semes- called for more literature experi-
ter of 2002. ence. However, SEU has sepa-
Currently, students can select rated their literature and writing
elective courses on their own to majors. The discussions resulted
customize the major. The changes in the four tracks that will allow
will recommend four different students more room to specialize,
tracks to follow that emphasize For instance, a student following
different kinds of writing: general the rhetoric and composition
writing, scholarly writing, profes- track may take one pr two litera-
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By Heather Kolodzey while being a role model and promoting per- According to a former RA who wishes to
Contributor sonal growth. Diversity education is also im- remain anonymous, she left the RA position
portant for RAs to promote because so many because it zapped all of her time. She was told
Resident assistants (RAs) are a group of different kinds of people make up the com- that the position would take an additional
students often taken for granted. They munity. In addition, RAs must perform ad- seven to eight hours a week
live in residence halls and the apartments ministrative duties as in any other job. “It was more like eight hours a day!” she said,
with the pur- A huge perk “Residence Life at SEU requires a lot of work.”
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building a sense
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What students
sometimes for-
meal plan, and a stays closely involved with each of the RAs.
get is just how hard RAs must work be- $350 stipend per semester. In the on-campus Ward is satisfied knowing her RA job is a pri-
hind the scenes to improve your residen- apartments, an RA receives a rent-free apart- ority, but academics still come first.
tial living experience. ment with a roommate, up to $50 toward elec- Another RA, Jarmese Roberts from Doyle
RAs must participate in staff relations trical charges and a $500 stipend per semes- Hall,- agreed with Ward’s sentiment. Even
by attending staff meetings every week ter. though she has the RA position, she has
and monthly training sessions with staff Well, if it is so great being an RA, why were plenty of time to study For Roberts, being a
development programs. As leaders of the there six openings at the end of last semes- RA “doesn’t interfere at all {with academics}.”
residence community, RAs are expected ter? According to the director of Residence An RA from Premont Hall, Russ Mowry,
to host programs to educate the residents Life, Farrukh Bashir, There are no short- believes his position is fun and “not over-
and/or bring them together as a commu- ages.” This number is about average for the whelming at all.” When asked why Premont
nity The office of Residence Life also ex- number of RAs that leave after a semester, is so great, Mowry responded, “It’s more laid-
pects that RAs be supportive of the resi- Some students leave because they want to back. There’s no drama in Premont—just guy
dents. An RA is supposed to be someone move off campus, they want another job, they stuff.”
the sacrifices of Jesus Christ. Christ was crucified, and Holy Sat- older are required to abstain from
The word Lent is the old English urday, the last day of Lent. On eating meat. A day of fast is' one
_ word for spring, the season during Easter Sunday Our Lord was res- on which Catholics who are 18 to
As studentsofa Catholic univer- which the 40 days fall. Lent tradi- urrected, the first day after Lent. 60 years old are required to keep
sity many of us celebrate Lent by tionally begins on Ash Wednesday Many Catholics give sacrifices a limited fast, which is usually
attending Mass, sacrificing and with the distribution of ashes in and fast for Lent. By sacrificing, considered one meal and two
fasting. However some students, the shape of a cross. Lent is 40 days we are denying ourselves some- snacks. Although children are not
including myself have little knowl- long because this is a traditional thing that we enjoy and disciplin- required to fast, parents should
edge regarding the details of Lent, number of devotion and prepara- ing ourselves so that we are not make sure that they are properly
at exact y is Lent, and what tion in the bible. Jesus Christ slaves to our pleasures. Although educated in the spiritual practice
does it mean for the Catholic faith? prayed and fasted for a 40 day pe- all days in Lent are appropriate of fasting.
By definition, the season of Lent riod to prepare for his ministry for fasting and abstinence, absti- This Lenten season, Campus
is the time of preparation for Holy which ended in his death and res- nence occurs on all Fridays dur- Ministry will be offering simple
Week, leading up to Easter Sun- urrection. Therefore, Catholics ing Lent. This is because Jesus supper series in order to celebrate
day To many Catholics, Lent is a imitate Jesus with a 40 day period died for our sins on Friday mak- fasting. Simple suppers will be held
special tune of sacrifice. It can be of prayer and fasting, to prepare ing it the appropriate day of every Wednesday excluding spring
a tune to give up something like for Holy Week. Holy Week is the mourning our sins by denying break, in the Mang House from
candy or smoking. No matter how last week in the celebration of ourselves something that we en- 6:00 to 7:30. Also, each Friday af-
far removed one might be from Lent. It begins with Palm Sunday joy. Sunday the day in which ter the noon mass, Stations of the
their studies of Lent, most Catho- Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem. Christ rose for our salvation, is Cross ceremonywill commence at
lies know that the 40 days of Lent Holy Week climaxes with Holy also an appropriate day to rejoice the Chapel, For more information
represent acts of sacrifice and self- Thursday the celebration of the in the Catholic faith. On days of please call Campus Ministry at
denial, which help us identify with first, mass, Good Friday on which abstinence, Catholics age 14 and 448-8499.
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ceives a free
to rank seven main concerns in were scheduled to meet with ad- process any way you can, in
As the spring semester contin- order of importance. Some of ministrators to discuss this survey hopes that we can all work to-
ues, students, faculty and staff these concerns, like parking, car- and the specific issues. SGA has gether to achieve the best pos-
across campus face many chai- ried over from last semester, and been working diligently to see sible solutions for the future of
lenges, changes and problems, while many faculty and staff par- that these concerns are brought our community.
On Tuesday Feb. 5, the Student ticipated in the survey the ma- to the administration in a posi- Aside from the above men-
Government Association (SGA) jority of the participants were tive, effective manner. The results tioned, the Student, Faculty and
took a major step toward ad- students. of the meetings and the respec- Staff Mixer was a huge success,
dressing some key issues. The survey respondents or- tive concerns will be published in It was important to have stu-
This year, the Student, Faculty dered the importance of the the next issue of Hilltop Views. dents, faculty and staff interact
and Staff Mixer a traditional seven main concerns as follows: Because of the administration’s with each other on a more social
event designed to give students, parking, classroom availability in- enormous support of student level, as it gave everyone a chance
faculty and staff a chance to creased faculty, involvement of concerns, I would ask all stu- to relax, discuss different issues
mingle with one another was students in administrative deci- dents to be patient and consci- freely enjoy the pleasing desserts,
also the site for implementing a sion making, on-campus living ar- entious of the time and focus and have a great time overall,
survey which would give the Stu- rangements, increased enroll- that is being given to these issues. Thanks to all students, faculty
dent Government Association ment and the publicity of St. SGA welcomes and values your and staff who came out to enjoy
an idea of what issues are most Edward’s 10-year plan. comments and suggestions. I a “short but sweet” afternoon,
important to students. Attend- As ofpress time, several execu- thank those students who par-
A sense of humor combined always been met with such recip-. her native land, he asked for a ported his remarks to the dean, Dr. class proceeded to remark that she and just “get out there and do it.”
with a streak of adventure can only rocation. lingam. Upon her return, the girl Shirley decided that “if only five should break up with him, throw Such an extraordinary man with
foreshadow a great time. This is Once while teaching, he turned said that her mother had had a were offended, Iwas doing okay” it away or give it back. Then he somuchtoofferdeservessuchre-
the formula behind the lasting re- some heads in the wrong direction hard time trying to find one. Dr. When Dr. Shirley opens his told them that itwas a cross. They wards. We can only imagine the
lationships he builds with his stu- with a joke that some found often- Shirley jokingly quipped, “you’d mouth, a lesson is not far behind, were silent and thus understood life of the campus without him
dents. He has been invited to sive. He had been explaining that think that you would be able to run One day in class he combated stu- the merit behind his teaching because it will be drasticallydif-
OpenMic Nights, the movies and Hindu women wear phallic sym- down to your local supply store dents with a story of a girl who strategies. ferent. Luckily we don’t have to
out to dinner by several students, bols called lingrams as necklaces, and say ‘Hey I need a gold-plated received a replica of a sado mas- Like any hard worker, Dr. Shirley worry about that just yet. After
AS loved as he is at St. Edward’s, When one student offered to penis for my girlfriend’s birthday ochist torture device from her boy- has plans for when he retires. He all,hestillhasn’tgottenhisback-
his practices and lectures haven’t bring him seomthing back from present.”’ After five students re- friend as a sign of affection. The wants to travel, "walk the highway” pack.
sional writing and creative writing, ture courses. The other tracks
According to Dr. Alan may not recommend these
Altimont, “The major is a huge classes.
grab bag of courses.” Right now, Faculty members expect the
writing students can seek coun- changes to be well received by stu-
seling from their advisors about dents and graduate programs. Ac-
which courses to take based on cording to Altimont, “The
career goals. In contrast, the changes clarify what can be done
tracks will formally state what with the major.”
courses are recommended for Skinner agrees by saying that
each type of writing students plan “now what is implied will be ex-
to focus on after graduation. plicit.” Skinner also expects stu-
According to the director of the dents to receive the changes well
writing program, Dr. Anna Skin- and show more interest in the ma-
ner, the changes were brought up jor because “graduate schools sali-
by faculty members such as Laurie vate over writing majors because
Drummond and Bro. John Per- good writing is good critical
ron. Changes were pushed to the thinking.”
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