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Foghorn
The   University   of   San   Francisco
OCTOBER 22,1998
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VOLUME 95, ISSUE 6
NEW HOME ON
Survey Says Binge
Drinking at 32%
Caitlin Young
TODD MARKLE/FOGHORN
The new Jesuit residence broke ground this August. It will house 23 Jesuits and include a chapel.
Construction starts for Jesuits' new hilltop home
Jessica Dryden-Cook
NEWS EDITOR
The sounds of banging hammers and whizzing drills heard on
campus are drifting up from the
construction sight of the new Jesuit residence on the lower side of
the University of San Francisco's
Lone Mountain Campus.
Ground was broken for the new
residence this August after nearly
two and a half years of planning
and will house 23 full-time Jesuits, said Rev. Thomas Lucas, S.J.
The other seven or eight members
of the Jesuit community will live
in University housing close by.
Currently, the USF Jesuit community is housed in Xavier Hall,
which has room for 100 Jesuits. Director of Plant Service Glen
Loomis said the new residence is
being built because the Xavier
space is too big for the 30 Jesuits
who live there now.
Lucas said the new residence is
also smaller because "we have to
look at the fact that there is not a
vast number of Jesuits (applying).
We didn't want to overbuild."
Once the Jesuits move out of
Xavier Hall, Loomis said the building will undergo six to eight
months of minor renovations.
Xavier will then become offices for the College of Arts faculty, who currenty have a lack of
office space.
"The rooms in Xavier are very
small but they'd be very useful for
office spaces," Lucas said.
Rev. Paul Bernadicou, S.J., said
he thought the new residence
served a double purpose, providing both needed office space for the
University and creating an intimate living space for the Jesuit
community.
"I'm glad to know that we're finally able to build a new residence
that allows us to meet more as a
smaller Jesuit community, more
focused on our own University
work, and that we're able to give
our larger facility to the University
that badly needs a building for the
Residence: Page 3
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
Statistical findings show a large
percentage of University of San
Francisco students admitting that
they binge drink.
USF joins roughly 3,000
schools across the country this
week to recognize National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week.
"Students at USF, especially
first year students, have a lot of
decisions to make when it comes
to Alcohol use," Melissa Kenzig,
the USF health education coordinator, said.
Alcohol consumption is apparent on campus. The CORE Drug
and Alcohol Survey conducted
across USF reported that 85 percent of students said they drink,
and that three out of four students
surveyed did so in the past 30
days.
Moreover, 32 percent of USF
students admitted to binge drink
ing. Binge drinking, according to
Kenzig, is characterized by drinking over five drinks in one sitting.
Although lower than the 44 percent national average of students,
it is still a significant sum.
"Even though USF students
seem to be making healthier decisions regarding alcohol use than
their counterparts at other universities, we understand the need for
education is an on-going one," Assistant Vice President of Student
Affairs Lori Varlotta said.
To increase awareness, a number of programs will take place on
campus throughout the week
aimed at promoting responsible
drinking and respecting the laws
regulating alcohol consumption.
An Alcoholic Anonymous
open meeting was held Monday
evening to allow students with alcohol related problems to converse with others in a similar situ-
Programs: Page 4
CONSEQUENCES OF DRINKING
11% people experience ethnic or racial
abuse
6.5% had threats of
physical violence
85% overall sexual
assaults involve sub
stance abuse (not just
USF)
58% experienced a
hangover
39% were nauseated
and/or vomited
23% missed class
—CORE Drug and Alcohol Survey, conducted at USF.
Lucky's, New Condos Set to
Move into USF Neighborhood
David J. Gudelunas
MANAGING EDITOR
When University of San Fram
cisco senior Bronwyn Knight
moved into her flat on Fulton St.
last August, her landlord explained
that the Western Addition neighborhood was a community in transition.
For some residents of this
neighborhood adjacent to the USF
campus, "transition" means
gentrification and corporatization.
For others, it means progress.
In January 2000, the Fulton-
Masonic Plaza, built in 1956 and
currently the home of Falletti
Foods, Scully Drugs and several
other small businesses, will be torn
down to accommodate a new residential and retail complex anchored by Lucky Foods.
The lease on the existing tenants
ofthe Plaza expires on the last day
of 1999.
The proposed project will also
include 133 one and two bedroom
condominium units above the retail space. Ten percent ofthe housing will be affordable to low-in-
TODD  MARKLE/FOGHORN
Local shoppers sort through a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables at
Falletti Foods in the Fulton-Masonic Plaza which will be torn down in
the year 2000.
come families.
Construction on the 40-foot
high complex is expected to take
18 months.
Oz Erickson, president of the
Emerald Fund, the company that
is developing the proposed residential and commercial complex,
said "it will mainly be a housing
project with retail underneath."
Erickson said that the USF demographic of college students was
considered when planning the
project and that the neighborhood
was considered a strong rental
market.
Erickson noted that the City,
which is still in the midst of a se
vere housing shortage, actively encourages housing above retail
space in order to create new living
space.
For some residents ofthe neighborhood, however, the new development is further proof of the in-
creasing gentrification and
upscaling of San Francisco.
"The reason I loved San Francisco before was that there was no
corporate feeling," said USF senior
and Western Addition resident
Robert Lindsey. "It used to be all
mom and pop stores, but now it
seems like a backward progression.
"It's turning San Francisco into
suburbia."
Within the last four years new
businesses, including Fruitful
Grounds Cafe, Starbucks,
Storeyville Jazz club and the Fulton
Street pub, have opened their
doors on the nearby the Fulton and
Masonic intersection.
"[The neighborhood] has become more busy, there has definitely been a lot more traffic," said
Development: Page 5
The Fat
on AS
Senate
Foghorn Staff Report	
Though the ASUSF Senate did
not face any major issues at last
Tuesday's Senate meeting, they
did address certain concerns
through committee reports.
One concern Senate foresees is
the issue regarding Senate's size.
The Senate Size Committee in their
report saw key issues which deserve close attention.
Currently, the Senate board
consist of four executive officers
and 26 senators which represent 13
groups (for example, two senators
represent the College of Arts and
Sciences). Motions have been
made to reduce the Senate by half,
though with no success.
Several points brought up include the Board of Trustees and
the Rev. President Schlegel, S.J.,
expressing their concern of
Senate's size, the issue being addressed every year, research has
been conducted which calls for
Size: Page 5