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University of San  Francisco
Vol. 99
Issue Twenty-Five
FREEDOM AND FAIRNESS
May 15, 2003
Students
Protest
President
SARA STEELE
"StaffWriter
Ten students from USF's Peace
and Justice Coalition traveled to
Santa Clara on Friday May 3, to
protest the arrival of President
George W. Bush at a weapons
plant. These students joined more
than 1,000 protesters who gathered
about two blocks from the plant,
chanting and waving banners and
signs.
Bush spoke at United Defense,
which developed vehicles used to
fight the war in Iraq. The PJC
wanted to protest the arrival of
Bush in northern California. "Our
goal was to let President Bush
know that northern California does
not support this war and let him
know that we are paying attention,"
said junior Emily Cohen. "He was
speaking at a military contractor, so
we wanted to make our presence
known especially while he was
doing that, because that is so much
of what he stands for; corporations
and big military. It's important for
the citizens to say you are not representing us; you are representing
your friends and making a whole
lot of money off of it."
The students from the PJC
joined another group of about ten
students from the University of
California at Berkeley at the
protest. "I'm really thrilled that we
had more people [from USF] than
usual," said sophomore Abigail
Stepnitz, a co-facilitator of the
PJC. "This was one of the largest
groups that we've taken to a
demonstration in a long time. It's
really nice that we go with [San
Francisco State University] and
Berkeley too because it really makes
the student population a little more
cohesive. I think it's really important to work with other schools. It
helps legitimize what we do
because it really makes it a student
movement."
Senior Ana Hermosillo was
also pleased with the amount of
people at the protest and especially
impressed that people took time off
on a weekday morning. "I'm so glad
that people still think that it's
important enough," she added. "I
keep thinking about all ofthe times
in the media that people say 'Will
the movement keep going because
the war is over now?' and I think
that this proves that it will keep
going. I think that this proves that
we are really serious about what
we're doing and that we do have a
different vision for the world."
Many students were not
pleased with the reaction that the
■ Santa Clara police had to the
protest, however. The police, who
kept the protesters in a confined
area using riot gear and horses,
seemed antagonistic to some of the
students. Hermosillo said she
thought the permit had been for a
much larger space than was actually conceded. "I think it was for the
entire street, not just for a small
portion of it. I felt that it was really
unfair that we were corralled into
such a small area when we were so
many people."
Hermosillo added that cramming people together can lead to
explosive confrontations. "It's dangerous because people get really
excited when they are very moved
in these emotional moments, so it's
a good idea to give people space to
expel those feelings. It created ten-
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SALVADOR FLORES HERNANDEZ/FOGHORN
(Left to Right) Senior Justin Cronin talks to Assistant Politics Professor James Taylor after watching two films and listening
to an open discussion about African-American and Asian-American relations in the Common Hope Project. The discussion
was led by Taylor, Associate Psychology Professor Pamela Balls Organista and Assistant Professor of Philosophy David Kim
(Back Right).
Culture Clash Explored
Search for New
Dean Continues
Position to be announced by summer
JESSICA ROBLES
 JcaffWriie'r	
 ROBERT FISCHER
StaffWriter
USF began an effort to demonstrate the possibility for change in
the historically negative relationship
between African-American and
Asian-American communities.
This effort, The Common
Hope Project, was held in late April
and early May for students and faculty to foster understanding about
the sometimes turbulent past tension between the Asian and
African-American communities.
David Kim, assistant professor
of philosophy and one of the coordinators of the Common Hope
Project, said the project began with
a discussion between various faculty
members and the Leo T. McCarthy
Center for Public Service and the
Common Good. Kim said the proj
ect is a response to the lack of coverage in college curriculum on what
he calls the 'underside,' or inter-colored relations between minority
groups such as African-Americans,
Asian-Americans and Latinos.
Kim said he hoped the project
would create a language in which to
discuss these matters. "Through the
creation of a common language
there can be achieved a common
hope," he said. "[This project's goal]
is for students to develop an articu-
lacy, a language by which to talk
about - to think through - inter-
colored relations, because the future
of America is going to be really
racially mixed in a way which we
can't yet imagine."
The project began in April with
an art exhibit, "Colored Black and
White," in the Atrium of Gleeson
Library. The exhibit displayed political  cartoons  depicting American
imperialism in the Pacific during
the 19th century. One cartoon
showed Uncle Sam figures belittling
caricatures of Filipinos and
American soldiers sticking bayonets
in the faces of Pacific Island natives.
Some of the pieces mocked anti-
imperialist activists as well. Mark
Twain, a leading anti-imperialist of
the time, was depicted in savage
garb and an anti-imperialist senator
was shown costumed as an African-
American vaudevillian.
The art exhibit was followed by
two sessions. The first presented a
slide show of the art exhibit and a
film about how Filipino, Chinese
and Asian Indians first arrived in
the Americas. Director Loni Ding
presented the film and participated
in a discussion afterwards.
The next day, two films were
shown that also focused on African-
American   and   Asian   American
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Today at 4 p.m. the Search
Committee is scheduled to make a
recommendation for a new dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences to
Academic Provost Jim Wiser, who
will discuss the recommendation
with President Stephen A. Privett,
S.J., and make an appointment by
the end of graduation.
This appointment will mark
the first time in 13 years that USF's
College of Arts and Sciences will
have a new dean.
Almost 60 applicants for the
position were narrowed down to
three finalists: outside candidates
Karen Callaghan, associate dean of
arts and sciences at Barry University
and Isaiah Crawford, interim dean
at Loyola University Chicago; and
internal candidate Jennifer Turpin,
associate dean of arts, humanities
and social sciences in the College of
Arts and Sciences at the University.
Michael Stanfield, associate
history professor, contributed his
opinions about the candidates. "I
was hoping to be impressed by the
outside candidates," he said. "I was
hoping they would be as good as or
better than the internal candidate.
But they did not meet my expectations. My personal estimate is that
the internal candidate is clearly the
best ofthe three. But my opinion, in
the end, really doesn't matter."
Provost Jim Wiser said all three
candidates have equal but different
strengths. "We are blessed to have a
set of very good finalists," he said.
Callaghan has been the associate dean of arts and sciences at
Barry University for two years and
has taught sociology for 14 years.
Her administrative interests include
creating an environment that fosters
diversity and promoting an education for morally and socially
responsible leadership.
Crawford has been an interim
dean  at  Loyola  University since
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January and has taught psychology
for 16 years. His administrative
goals include promoting an open
and democratic system of governance and facilitating the emotional, intellectual and spiritual development of students.
Turpin has been associate dean
of arts and sciences for five years,
and has taught sociology for 12
years. She is dedicated to elevating
academic standards and making the
University internationally known.
Some of her goals for the University
also include recruiting diverse faculty and improving student retention.
Stanfield said the faculty members have been very engaged in
actively participating in the search.
"We all care deeply about this," he
said. "This is a very important position and decision."
Many faculty members have
written letters to the Search
Committee recommending one
candidate or another. Andrew
Goodwin, professor and chair ofthe
media studies department, sent a
letter to more than 50 other faculty
members urging them to support
Turpin for the appointment. In his
COURTESY PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Associate Dean Jennifer Turpin is
one of the candidates for dean of arts
and sciences. Some faculty are speaking out in favor of appointing her.
Davies Scholars Address Media Abuses
KATHLEEN EMMA
StaffWriter
Is this generation sitting idly by
and letting digital democracy go
down the toilet without a second
thought? Sera Herold, a junior
media studies major, thinks so. "We
live in a digital world, and digital
democracy is one of the biggest
issues that our society, and even
more importantly, our generation,
faces. Yet it seems like [no one
cares]. It's [a corporation's] wet
dream."
Danielle Fairbairn, a junior
media studies major, agreed that
people need to pay more attention
to media bias. "When the public can
name the last 12 contestants on
American Idol faster than they can
name the senators from their own
state, the media are not doing their
job to keep us informed," she said.
Herold and Fairbairn are
Davies scholars who presented at
the last segment in the Davies
Forum "Digital Democracy" series
on May 3. The all-day conference
was made up of workshops focusing
on how citizen groups are creating
community and building democratic
communications on and off the
Internet.  Davies  scholars  led  the
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Internet Rights Bulgaria, MediaAct
Korea and the San Francisco
Independent Media Center.
Courtney Krametbauer, another Davies scholar and a junior soci-
and what affect each had on civil
liberties and privacy for students.
Krametbauer said the project was
important because "many people are
uninformed as to the impact that
When the public can name the last 12 contestants
on American Idol faster than they can name the
senators from their own state, the media are not
doing their job to keep us informed."
-Danielle Fairbairn
Junior media studies major
workshops, along with various other
presenters from Bay Area resources.
Some ofthe groups involved included representatives from Silicon
Valley   Debug,   Media   Alliance,
ology major, presented with Herold
on Internet censorship. Their project addressed the U.S. Patriot Act
and the letter from the Recording
Industry Association  of America
new legislation has had on their civil
liberties and how the recording
industry can try to manipulate
schools into breaching the student's
privacy."
After speaking with many people in the University administration,
Krametbauer and Herold agreed
they were satisfied with USF's
response to the Patriot Act and
RIAA letter. "Most schools ignored
[them] and quite frankly, most
schools don't have the capacity to
monitor students' network use,"
Krametbauer said. "The
[University] registrar assured me
that USF's first priority would be to
protect students before surrendering
information to the FBI on an invalid
search. USF really cares about the
students and will try and protect
students at all costs, which is really
reassuring."
Fairbairn and her co-presenter
addressed media reform in the
United States, focusing on past
radio deregulation in the
Telecommunications Act of 1996,
and upcoming deregulation rulings
on the media (to be decided June 2
or 3 by the FCC). Fairbairn used the
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