2003-03-27

              First copy free

Evil prevails when good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

At home

Aw, hogwarts. Drag your little sib (or just go by yourself) to "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." They'll probably like you then.

8 p.m. Friday 6 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday

In St. Cloud

IHOPIIHOP! IHOP! Finally! If you don't know what IHOP is, you need to get your head in the game, kid. 327 2nd St. S Waite Park

In the Cities

Playoff preview! Watch the Timberwolves whack the Dallas Mavericks. Ah yes, my friends.

12:30 p.m.

Sunday

Target Center

exSITEment

www.asksnoop.com

Ever wonder what high-minded political commentator Snoop Dogg has to say about the war on Iraq? Enter "www.targetoil.com" in the box and find out. You may want to avoid this site on Little Sibs weekend, though,

Profs choose books

Professors chose their favorite books, and they are on display at the two libraries with explanations., Variety, Page 6

Baseball beat SCSU on Tuesday

SJU baseball team defeats St. Cloud State University for the first time since 1998.

Sports Extra, Page 12

Scrumin' it up

CSB rugby wins second match of the season against Gustavus.

Sports, Page 11

Official Paper Since 1888

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ST.   JOHN'S   UNIVERSITY   •   COLLEGE   OF   ST.   BENEDICT

www.csbsju.edu/record

March 27, 2003

Lyons accepts San Diego position

By Kristen Nowak

Staff writer

Mary Lyons announced Tuesday that her current and seventh year as president of the College of St. Benedict will be her last. Lyons was recently appointed president of the University of San Diego, which will take effect July l.

Lyons   said   she   was

nominated for the position and after accepting the nomination became one of five finalists.

The new position will be Lyons' third presidency. Prior to her work at CSB, Lyons was president of the California Maritime Academy for six years.

The CSB president cited several reasons for the move. Lyons is origi-

nally from California, and the new job allows her to be closer to home. USD is also a Catholic liberal arts university, which she said she finds appealing.

USD is looking forward to Lyons' arrival.

"With her experience in both Catholic undergraduate education and the professional training programs at the academy, Dr.

Lyons understands and embraces USD's mission of academic excellence and values-centered learning," said Liam McGee, chair of the USD board of trustees, in a recent USD press release.

"We are confident she is the right person to lead USD to even greater success as a nationally ranked    institution    of

higher learning."

For Lyons, the decision to accept the position was bittersweet.

"I'm sad about what I'm going to be missing here but happy to go to my home state," she said.

Lyons highly values her time spent on these two campuses.

See LYONS Page 4

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Students express opinions about war

Signs spark debate

Photos by Adam Leonard, The Record

(From left) Pat Corey, Michelle Garvey, another protester, Derek Engelking and Katie Haas participated in civil disobedience at the U.S. Courthouse in Minneapolis on Tuesday. The four CSB/SJU students were arrested and charged with trespassing.

Protesters arrested Tuesday

By Katie Holloway

Editorial staff

Four CSB/SJU students were arrested Tuesday while protesting at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis.

Ten CSB/SJU students joined about 150 protesters at the U.S. Courthouse for an anti-war demonstration.

"I didn't really have much hope for stopping this war, but it was really important to end war in the future," said Katie Haas, who was arrested.

Derek Engelking, Michelle Garvey and Pat Corey also were arrested.

At about 7 a.m., the demonstrators rallied at the old federal building and then marched to the courthouse chanting "Support our troops, bring them home." Once at the courthouse, the demonstrators linked arms and blocked the entrances.

Sixty-eight people were arrested.

The protesters were asked by a federal security guard to move, and when they refused the police arrived and had to drag many of them away from the entrances, according to media reports.

"The protest was successful," Garvey said. "We shut down the building for a couple hours, we shut down traffic and the media were there. It was a simple

action that spoke widely."

The demonstrators were handcuffed with flexible handcuffs, put on a bus and brought to the Hennepin County Jail. The arrested people sat in a holding cell for about six hours.

Christine Green, who was a supporter of the people performing civil disobedience, sat outside the jail with Garvey's dad and about 25 other people waiting for the demonstrators to be released.

Each of the protestors was charged with trespassing, which is a misdemeanor.

"At this time it was the best way to express my feelings about my government's actions," Engelking said.

The protest was organized by the Anti-War Committee. People of all ages and backgrounds participated, including members of Veterans for Peace and Women Against Military Madness.

The protesters carried signs that read "Stop the war on Iraq" and "When you fight evil with evil, evil wins."

Sister Merle Nolde also was prepared to participate in civil disobedience Tuesday afternoon in St. Cloud. She planned to arrive at the Federal Building in St. Cloud just before clos-

A police officer arrests Garvey Tuesday. She was one of 68 people that were arrested at the U.S. Courthouse. She spent six hours in jail.

ing and refuse to leave.

The Federal Building, however, closed before she had the chance. It closed at 4 p.m., which is earlier than usual.

Instead she participated in a peace vigil outside the building with about 25 other people. The vigil was organized by Pax Christi.

By Nick Watts

Staff writer

Political signs posted in windows on the St. John's campus prompted an e-mail debate last week. Several students have been asked to remove signs from their windows. Some have complied. Others haven't.

While the policy remains vague, Dean of Campus Life Jason Laker told students and employees in an e-mail sent Friday night that he does not intend to ban political signs.

"Until we can. have a better and more thoughtful discussion about when it is appropriate to limit expression, I am satisfied to limit only those things which are violent, lude [sic], and the like, or are placed in inappropriate locations" such as hanging outside a window, Laker said in the e-mail.

The debate started last week when Fr. Timothy Backous saw a sign on the fourth floor of Benet Hall that said, "Bomb Iraq, Kill Saddam."

"I didn't see how it contributed posi-tivity to the discussion and debate when it promotes killing and violence. I would even say (the sign is) aggressive. Signs that call for killing are not in line with human standards. I think it's subhuman," Backous said.

Junior Reed Nystrom put the sign in his window and was respectful to Backous' request to remove it. "According to him [Backous] the sign goes against Benedictine values. Understanding that this is a Catholic school, we took them [signs] down in respect to Fr. Timo. We did see how such things like 'kill someone' - people might take offense to that, so we took it down and put up a sign that says 'Support our troops.'"

Laker became involved with the issue on Wednesday when he asked sophomore Matt Harrington to take down a sign from his first floor Tommy Hall window that said, "Support our troops."

Harrington was also contacted by Backous, who stated that he made another student take down his sign so to be fair, he asked him to take his down.

"After a lot of thought I decided to See SIGNS Page 4

Flags eliminated

By Megan Myklebust

Staff writer

The Joint Faculty Assembly passed a motion Thursday to eliminate the writing and discussion flag requirements from the core curriculum.

The motion was presented by the Core Curriculum Committee and is subject to the approval of Provost Henry Smorynski and possibly the school presidents before going into effect.

If passed, it would no longer be necessary for students, including seniors, to fulfill the writing and discussion flag requirements, said Jennifer Galovich, chair of the Joint Faculty Assembly.

The motion originally included the quantitative reasoning flag, but the motion was divided and each flag was evaluated individually.

After much debate, See FLAGS Page 4

Schools cut study abroad position

By Chris Lusvardi

Editorial staff

CSB/SJU had seven study abroad programs with 130 participants in 1993. Currently there are 16 programs and 430 students who participate in them.

Yet, the position of the director of international education occupied since 1993 by Stephen Burmeister-May is being eliminated.

The elimination of Burmeister-May's position is a signal of broader

academic restructuring planned in the next 18 months by the two schools.

The elimination of the director's position will not immediately impact students, but could ultimately change the quality of study abroad programs offered.

"He's put us on the map nationally for our off-campus programs," said Scott Johnson, political science professor, who directed the Greco-Roman program in 1999-2000.

Burmeister-May was hired to reform, renew and expand the international and multicultural educational opportunities offered by the two schools.

Burmeister-May has enjoyed his time at CSB/SJU, but is ready to move on.

Tm at peace with the situation. It's an opportunity for personal and professional            growth," Burmeister-May said.

Higher rankings

CSB/SJU      currently

Stephen Burmeister-May

Director of international education

ranks second in the nation among bachelors institutions in the number of students who  study

See ABROAD Page 4