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College of Saint Benedict

Friday March 14, 1986

Vol. 11, No. 3

O'CONNELL APPOINTED CSB PRESIDENT

Herman J. Ratelle, chair of the board of trustees of the College of St. Benedict, announced today that S. Col-man O'Connell, OSB, will be the next CSB president, effective July 1. O'Con-nell replaces S. Emmanuel Renner who is resigning after seven years as president.

A native of Roberts, Wise, O'Con-nell graduated from CSB in 1960 in 1950 in English and speech. She received a masters of fine arts in 1954 in English and theater from Catholic University of America and a doctorate in higher education in 1979 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. O'Connell has served as CSB's executive vice president and as a member of the President's Staff since 1984. Other positions at the college include director of planning (1979-84); director of alumnae and parent relations and annual fund director (1974-77); chair of the theater and dance department (1954-74); and various teaching positions. She also taught at Pierz Memorial High School in Pierz, Minn., (1952-53), and at Cathedral High School in St. Cloud (1950-52).

¦" i ne mission of the College of Saint Benedict offers a liberal arts education to women in a Catholic, Benedictine setting. The complexities of our society creates a need for this kind of education/' O'Connell said.

"We will continue to build on our strengths of the present — the heritage of Benedictine values, the joint core curriculum and other cooperative ventures with Saint John's, the strength and competence of our faculty, the new library, the progress of our athletic program with the support of our new gym, and particularly the recruitment of fine students that are looking for a tradition of academic excellence in a Catholic higher educational setting," she said.

O'Connell has co-authored articles and book chapters with Robert T. Blackburn, a nationally known researcher on faculty issues from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She was elected to the national Catholic honor society, Delta Epsilon Sigma. She has also been a consultant for institutions on higher education and guest speaker for local, regional and national groups and conferences.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER PEREZ ESQUIVEL TO SPEAK AT CSB

by Ana Schnellmann

Adolpho Perez Esquivel has been active in the Latin American: peace movement for over a decade, although when he was declared the winner of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize, he was all but unknown by the media. Indeed, Perez Esquivel was described by Edward Schumacher as a "backrooms man, a committee organ-zer, not a charismatic public leader." By no means, however, does this mean that Perez is an office-boy type, organizing movements while staying out of trouble.

Perez had been arrested three times in two years. He was briefly jailed in 1975, arrested again in 1976, then arrested without charge, trial or warning in 1977, jailed and tortured for fifteen months, during which yoga and constant prayer helped him resist the attempt to break his morale.

Before he was arrested for the first time in 1975, Perez had led a hunger strike to protest violence of terrorists and police forces, founded the magazine Pazy Justida (Peace and Justice), which became the official publication of the Service for Peace and Justice and later, in 1974, was named general coordinator of the Service.

Perez was a latecomer to the peace movement, becoming active at about the age of 40. Before becoming active in the peace and justice movement, Perez had made his living as a politically detached and quite successful sculptor, painter and professor.

It was through drawing and painting that the sculptor master became a mas-er of peace action. According to Charles Antoine, Perez the artist had felt a need for many years to get in touch with American roots, pre-Columbian cu-tures. As he studied the ancient Indian civilizations of the continent, he realized the extent of the injustice by design against the Indians of the Andes and the Amazon rain forest. Realization of one massive part of-social injustice sparked the realization in his own Argentina.

It would indeed be difficult to remain unaware of the injustices going on in the politically boiling country of Argentina. Starting with the riots of students and workers against General Juan Carlos Ongania in 1969, Argentina has been a country of unrest and turmoil. The riots were only the start of the deep frustration and desire for social change that would be the hallmark of the country for at least the next couple of decades. In 1970, Ongania was overthrown by Levingston; in 1971, Levingston was deposed by General Lanusse. In 1973, exiled president Juan Peron returned to the country and was elected president, with his wife, Isabella Peron as vice-president, much to popular acclaim.

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ADOLPHO PEREZ ESQUIVEL:

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER

TO SPEAK AT GSB MARCH 19