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MAY 6, 2011
COLLEGE OF ST. BENEDICT/ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY
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Club funding causes stress, new solutions
By Heather Beckius
habeckius@csbsju.edu
As the school year draws to an end, club allocations have
concluded and may have left
students more confused and
unsatisfied than ever about the club funding process.
Steven Pesavento, student
protester, said, "The policy of who gets money for what isn't writ�ten in stone; it's decided by the
co�funding board based off of
personal preference."
The amount of money the
co�funding board has to work with varies from year to year, with the average amount being approx�imately $200,000 between both senates. In order to obtain funds, each campus club submits a
budget which then needs to be approved by the Senate.
"It's a very clear and structured process. We do everything we can to make it as fair and even as possible," CSB Senator Brenna Finley said.
"We keep their mission state�ments in mind," Senator Cooper Lund said. He described how the Senates review the budgets: "We look at every budget on its own merits and we don't consider what any other club is doing."
From there, the Senates elimi�nate costs which are incongru�ent with the club's mission state�ments or costs which are ineligible for Senate funding. If the total amount of club funds at the end is more than the Senate budget, an equal percentage will given to all.
"Anyone allocated more than $500 will be cut the same
Sen. Brenna Finley
Co�Funding Board
.See CLUBS Page 8
Solutions for the funding issue
USA, USA, USA!
Athletic facilities slated for expansion
CSB/SJU campuses react to bin Laden's death
By Alivia Tison
amtison@csbsju.edu
Lights around Clemens
Stadium, hanging baskets for recreational basketball and an expanded press box will greet
returning students in the fall as part of St. John's Athletics $12 million master plan.
Mostly built during the early 1980s, updated and new SJU facilities should be completed within the next five years, Athletic Director Tom Stock said.
"In the 1970s and 1980s' we had some of the best facilities," Stock said. "We still have some great
facilities, but we do need to
continue to make updates to keep up with our competitors."
With 650 SJU intercollegiate athletes, a growing number of competitive club teams and 90 percent of the SJU student body involved in some type of intramu�ral activity, Bob Alpers, assistant athletic director, said students do not have access to enough practice and recreational space.
"There are large numbers of students who want to play, but not the time, space or the oppor�tunity to recreate," Alpers said. "This (plan) isn't driven by varsity sports, but by all students at St. Ben's and St. John's."
With $2 million already raised, the contractors behind the master plan have already
completed the
reconstruction of the
basketball court at Warner
Palaestra's Sexton Arena in 2008, the expansion of Clemens
Stadium's press box in 2009 and the replacement of wrestling mats this past fall, according to the St. Cloud Times.
While SJU still has about $10 million to fundraise, Rob Culligan, vice president of SJU Institutional Advancement, said it's important to reach the plan's goals.
"I think there are three
reasons why it's important for us to upgrade facilities," Culligan said. "First, students value health and fitness. Second, athletics and fitness are really important to
prospective students. Third, in
order for intercollegiate athletic programs to excel, we have to keep up with schools around the conference and the country."
Other schools in the MIAC have gone through recent facility upgrades including the University of St. Thomas's upgrade of $52 million and Macalester College's
upgrade of $30 to $40 million.
"In the case of SJU, we don't need to put in $30, $40, $50
million," Culligan said. "We
already have some fantastic facili�ties. Now, we just need to expand."
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Left: Junior Lucas Wuebben waves an American flag on Sunday night. Top right: Students watch President Obama's speech to the nation. Bottom right: Students gather in a large group in Flynntown to celebrate fol�
By Jillian Yanish
jmyanish@csbsju.edu
Celebrations and rallies occurred throughout the world after the announce�ment of Osama bin Laden's death Sunday night. SJU students celebrated as well, sparking discussion about the appropri�ateness of their actions.
Observers and participants coined the student gathering as a rally or mob�like celebration. Students congregated by
Sexton after President Barack Obama's televised speech and made their way to Flynntown, gathering more students along the way. According to student esti�mates, the crowd peaked at approximate�ly 200 students.
Students chanted,"U.S.A, U.S.A," sang the Star Spangled Banner, waved American flags, gave speeches and said the Pledge of Allegiance. One flare gun and a couple of sparklers were set off in
Flynntown as well.
The students dispersed from the
Tundra around midnight when Life Safety
intervened. Shawn Vierzba, director of Life Safety, said that Life Safety got
involved after receiving several noise complaints.
Students who observed or participated in the rally claimed that it was a happy and nonviolent atmosphere.
"It was positive. People weren't tear�ing down walls," senior John Dwyer said. "A large part of it was people celebrating for happy reasons. In my personal view, a Christian does not celebrate anyone's death. But I think the celebration was a
.See LADEN Page 8
Student attitudes on Bin Laden's death
By Adam Tucker
amtucker@csbsju.edu
According to the Rule of St. Benedict, the moral code that guides the life of monastics from the St. Ben's Monastery and the St. John's Abbey, each member of the community is allowed one quill or stylus. For Br. Paul�Vincent
Niebauer, the vocation director for the SJU Abbey, his quill just
happens to be an iPhone.
"We are an abbey attached to a prep school, a university and a
liturgical press," Niebauer said. "If we were a monastery in the Alps, we could be fine with one
computer terminal or so. Because we aren't, we need to be able to meet and respond to the world on its own level."
Despite the situation surround�ing past sexual abuse allegations at the SJU Abbey, the number of novices seeking admission to the Abbey is trending upward each year. According to Niebauer, the role of technology in the monastic life of CSB/SJU is part of the ever�rising numbers of those seeking the religious vocation.
"We are growing, the median age of the monks is dropping and I think its partly because of the role of our website sharing
common information and knowl�edge about what it means to be a religious here," Niebauer said.
In 2007, five novices, men at many different levels of the
admission process, were seeking to join the Abbey. Now four years later, 13 novices seek the vocation of monastic life at the SJU Abbey. Additionally, the approximate
average age in the monastery has fallen from 66.7 years to 65.9 years in the past four years and contin�ues to fall.
"The difference between the monastic demographic and that of a typical organization, is the age range is so extreme. Monks seem to live forever, and so do the sisters," Niebauer said. "When an
elderly monk dies and a young man joins the monastery, the shift can be quite dramatic."
The numbers of those seeking to join the monastery because of a better spread of monastic
information may be rising, but the
actual process to become a
novice remains stringent and comprehensive.
"It's a 12 hour
interview, a full psychological and physical analysis, as well as federal background check fingerprints as well," Niebauer said.
The SJU Abbey is not the only
Monastery technology spikes novice interest
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Technology is an essential tool in the life of a monastic.
.See PLANS Page 3
Gagliardi's reaction to the plans
.See MONKS Page 7
CSB Monastery uses technology
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