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November 30, 1989/Volume 102, Number   11

Combined efforts produce Dayton buses

By Aaron R. Bjerke

Due to the efforts of SJU seniors Troy Durocher, Mike Bochenski, Matt Knight, and CSB senior Amy Braham, fans of the football team will have the opportunity to attend this Saturday's NCAA division III semifinal game between the Johnnies and Dayton University, Ohio. Their organizing efforts, combined with a S15 00 donation by Roman Paur, OSB, SJU vice president of Student Affairs, have ensured that seats on at least one specially chartered bus will be availableforpurchaseto take fans to the game.

"There hasn't been a championship football learn here in 13 years. We're damn excited about it," said Bochenski, who sold places on the bus with Knight and Durocher in Mary Cafe yesterday. Currently, spots on one 46-seat bus are still open, and it appears likely that a second bus will also make the 16-hour trip to Dayton.

Following last Saturday's victory by the Johnnie football team over Central, Iowa, Bochenski, Durocher, and Knight began looking into the possibility of chartering transportation to the game. Braham began similar efforts at CSB, petitioning both the administration and the student government about the availability of funds.

Durocher, who is also a SJU senator, approached Senate president, senior Eric Trettel, with a request for money to set up a bus at a cost of S2380. Trettel, after conducting a telephone poll to gauge support from the other senators, proposed that the Senate split the cost with the CSB Student Administrative Board (SAB), each organization donating S750 from student activity funds.

Trettel explained that supporting the football team through financing buses was something theSenate was pleased to help with. "It's clear that there's a desire, but people don't have the means to afford

reflected concerns over what Percich called the "vague details" of the senate proposal. In addition, Percich explained that using S750 in student activity fees to send a maximum of 23 CSB students — at a breakdown cost of $30 per student — was unrealistic, and would open problems of preference over who would get the seats. "It's 23 people we're talking about," Percich said "If the cost were at a more accessible level, we could've approved it."

At present, the SAB is looking into organizing alternatives to the buses, such as car pools, and Percich stressed thai the SAB would be open to any last-minute proposal by the senate.

Durocher said that the Senate had planned to finance the bus on its own, even going so far as to suggestthepossibilityoffinancingasecondbusas well, but Paur's donation made that unnecessary. However, because all the money is coming from SJU sources, a discrepancy in the ticket cost is created between SJU and CSB students: interested SJU fans may purchase seats for $20, while CSB students must pay $52 (covering ticket cost and bus fare).

"If we're paying for it all ourselves, the only people we'd let on it would be SJU students," said Trettel. The addition of the money from Paur opens the door for CSB students to go as well. Currently, approximately 28 seats have been confirmed as sold, with 15 tentative reservations. These figures do not include the entire roster of non-starting football players, who are expected to purchase several seats wi th money donated through SJU's Football Program.

When notified by The Record that the SAB was unable to split the cost, Paur volunteered the Student Affairs money almost immediately. He claimed that the donation was an "unprecedented gift in the history of the university, " and he was

to go down on their own. It's a greatuse of student money to bring students to the games... it's a no-lose proposition."

Unfortunately, Senate members weredisappointed in the matching S750 donation from the SAB, as the Board's motion to put up the money for half the

cost of the 46-seat bus failed in a Tuesday night vote. SAB president, senior Leah Percich, explained that the Board did feel a desire to support the team and help theSenate, but the negative vote

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Members oi the St. John's monastic community gathered Tuesday for the

sing of the new church bells. Dedicated to Mary, the second largest bell,

shown above, weighs 5,665 pounds and measures 63 inches in diameter.

The inscription reads "My soul magnifies the Lord. My spirit rejoices in God

my savior/1 (photo by Patrick Dreizehnter)

Faculty seeks a handle on underage drinking

Seniors Amy Braham and Mike Bochenski sold bus tickets last night for the trip to the NCAA Division III semi-final football game in Dayton, Ohio. Tickets will be sold today in Mary Cafe and Mary Commons at $20 for Johnnies and $52

for Bennies, (photo by Patrick Dreizehnter)

pleased to be able to help. "One of the advantages of suchhighly visiblepost- seasonal success is that the whole nation will get to see again what we take for granted, in good sportsmanship, in a tradition lhat is unique to (SJU football coach) John Gagliardi," he said.

Braham, however, was surprised at the slow dis-

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By Steve Perry

Alcohol abuse is responsible for an alarming number of academic, legal, and sexual problems among SJU students, according to a recent presentation by two SJU student affairs officials.

The October report to SJU's faculty assembly disclosed the results of a pool last spring in which over two hundred students answered questions about their use of alcohol and drugs. The clata clearly connected alcohol consumption with various sexual and academic behavior problems.

The report sparked debate over issues of drug-awareness education and the availability of beer to minor students. The report was presented by Roman Paur, OSB, vice president of student affairs, and Bill Clarey, FSC, counseling and career services director.

Particularly serious were the number of students who couldn' t remember what happened, engaged in sexual activities, or acted in a way they later regretted as consequences of drinking, Clarey said.

According to Dave Lyndgaard, SJU registrar and secretary of the faculty assembly, the faculty moved to ask Paur to work with local authorities to undercut alcohol abuse by minors.

Paur was charged with "establishing dialogue with those people in authority... to get a handle on where the students are illegally buying alcohol," said assistant theology professor Jane Regan, who proposed the motion.

"We need to work for consistency in the application of state and local ordinances. I think Saint John's would profit from been known as a school that took problems with drugs and alcohol seriously," agreed Paur.

"The faculty was concerned with the consumption of alcohol by underage students, and by some of the results of the survey," according to Lyndgaard.

The faculty assembly was "particularly concerned about early- and mid-week partying introducing into the study week," Paur said.

Not all faculty members feel their assembly is the place to deal with students* drinking problems. "I do not think that the faculty assembly should be the body to set, institute, or enforce (alcohol) policy, nor have we been," said Ned Dubin, associate professor of Modem and Classical Languages. "In my opinion, the role of the faculty assembly is faculty governance."

But that doesn't mean that faculty should ignore alcohol abuse, according to Dubin. "It would be a good thing for individual faculty members who find themselves in contact with students for whom this is a problem to deal with the problem as it arises."

SJU's alcohol problem is serious but typical nationally. "Saint John's represents the same concerns as every other college campus in the country," said Clarey. "Relative to many schools, our situation is quite good with respect to reasonable policies, enforcement of policies, and drinking behavior," Paur said.

Regan feels the assembly has begun to "take the problem apart some, and one issue is that underage students are drinking and they are endangering themselves and others." But the assembly has "certainly not solved the problem" but has only addressed the aspect of underage sales, Regan said.

"Faculty and students are recognizing the need to approach the issue in a wholistic way," said Regan.

?Prinking age laws aside, Paur doesn't think it would be impossible for underage students to drink responsibly. But underage students "have statistics against them," noted Paur. 70 percent of

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