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VOL. 106       ISSUE 2
Junior Kevin Kunze plans
to turn his finished script
into a full feature length film.
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Senior Erika Heyer
comments about the affliction known as senioritis.
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Campus Chic highlights
the best style around USF.
Check out Avery Hayes's
French-inspired clothing
and accessories.
Women's Soccer splits
Labor Day weekend series
at home against Fairfield
University and Long Island
University.
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Sky Madden documents
staff writer Chloe Schild-
hause's latest edition of Campus Chic. See the interview
at http://foghorn.usfca.edu.
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Worth a Million?
Foghorn Archives
John Muir's journal is one of the rare books that USF aims to protect by renovating the Donahue Rare Book Room.
Donahue Rare Book Room seeks to raise $1  million for
renovations; students and alumni expected to donate funds
NICHOLAS MUKHAR
StaffWriter
The University of San Francisco's Donahue Rare Book Room is not in danger
of being closed and no current items have
been identified as potential items to be
auctioned off, according to Gleeson Library Dean Tyrone Cannon, who called the
room "an indefinite part of the library."
Speaking on behalf of the University,
Cannon said USF has tentatively set a
January 2010 deadline to raise $1 million
to renovate the Rare Book Room, a task
even more daunting than it sounds because
most of the university's fundraising dollars
will be poured into constructing the new
Harney Science Center. Cannon said the
university is "flexible" in its January deadline and will continue the fundraising further into the year if the goal looks attainable.
If it does not appear that the university
is able to raise the needed funds, USF will
go ahead with only "necessary" renovations
identified by the Audit Committee of the
Board of Trustees and leave repairs such as
new lighting, carpeting and shelving out of
the plan. He did not specify which repairs
were necessary.
Cannon said that fundraising for the
Rare Book Room, which has been a part
of the Gleeson library since the 1970s, is
in the "strategy phase," and initial ideas include reaching out to donors and students,
specifically those in the humanities, and
applying for the annual National Endowment Humanities Grant. Selling items
from the room is not part of the plan at
this point.
USF's current position on the room's
items is a reversal from their initial stance
in April, when University President Rev.
Stephen Privett S.J., who in July signed
off on this latest fundraising initiative,
told the Foghorn that USF was sifting
through university assets and identifying
expendable items to be sold in the event
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
of an economic emergency. Some of the
identified items were from the Rare Book
Room. This policy, along with the auctioning off of a collection of prints by Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer earlier this
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year, prompted a strong rebuttal from a
group of USF professors, who wrote letters
to the administration in an attempt to stop
the school from auctioning off any more of
the room's items.
USF history professor Martin Claussen,
a member of the aforementioned faculty
group, said he has no knowledge of USF
planning to sell any more items from
the Rare Book Room. Claussen is also a
member of the Faculty Advisory Committee, a joint committee of administrators
and faculty in support of the preservation
of the room's items. He has been working closely with Cannon on the Rare Book
Room preservation project and from the
beginning has spoken out against selling
items from the room, a move he called
"odd" earlier this year in questioning the
logic behind selling items from the room
to pay for its' renovations.
According to Cannon, the Durer prints
were auctioned off for a total of 160,000.
This earning will count as part of the $1
million total USF aims to raise, though
the prints were auctioned off before the
fundraising initiative was introduced. Any
money raised is not subject to income tax,
according to USF's Vice President of Business and Finance Charles Cross, who said
the university is exempt from income tax
for activities related to its exempt purpose,
and these activities fall within this exemption.
Cannon said there are "core items" that
cannot be sold from the room, and Head
of the Donahue Rare Book Room John
Hawk identified some of those items as
the original copy of the first edition of
"Mores Utopia," by English Renaissance
writer Thomas More, and original works
by Eric Gill, a late 19th century and early
20th century British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker. Hawk
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New Cafe Offers Organic Food,
Late Hours, Breakfast All Day
SAMMI SUMAMPONG
StaffWriter
Although Outtahere, the new cafe,
has only been open for two weeks, manager Steve Karuntzos said there have been
"plenty of compliments" because of the
all-day breakfast. He added that "feedback
is amazing, and there is more to come."
Outtahere is the all organic cafe that occupies the space that was previously held by
Jamba Juice. Holly Winslow, the director
of Bon Appetit Services at USF, conceptualized the idea, and the cafe is managed
by Karuntzos, the manager of Outtakes.
According to Winslow, Bon Appetit did
not renew Jamba Juice's contract because
they wanted to make smoothies that came
from fresh fruits instead of the frozen fruit
smoothies that Jamba Juice sold. Winslow
said, "Nutritional content from our fresh
fruit smoothies is way better than the nutritional content from Jamba Juice."
Winslow has a two fold vision for Outtahere. It is a cafe that is open late and also
one that serves organic food. Winslow
said, "It's convenient for students who are
studying late into the night, and for students who are coming late."The cafe incorporates breakfast all day seven days a week,
late night dining, and a convenience store.
Winslow adds that there will be a twist on
breakfast, such as burger breakfast, which
is an English muffin with fried egg, bacon
and avocado. Winslow said she went to the
student senate, conducted a survey on what
students wanted from their dining experiences and received 800 responses. From
these responses, she created a cafe that incorporated what the students wanted.
"My favorite aspect [of Outtahere], is
the whole thing," said Winslow. She said,
"The products are 100% natural and our
items you won't get at Market, Outtakes,
the law school and Club  Ed." She also
added that she felt she listened to her customers, the student body, and responded
accordingly.
Sophomore Kaity Hayashi said, "I really like how things are so much healthier
and organic, and there is so much variety.
So it's really cool to come here and always
have something to eat." When asked if she
misses Jamba Juice, she said "Not really. I
worked at Jamba Juice for a long time. A
lot of us never came in here anyways-now
that this happens, a lot of my friends come
here all the time."
Kirsten Irvin, a graduate student in the
MBA program, said that she finds Outtahere different from the other cafes on
campus because it is "unique and trendy.
I'm glad that it's here."
Outtahere is operating under a soft
opening while they make minor adjustments to best suit students. Karuntzos
worked until 2:00 in the morning and received a lot of feedback on what the students like and what they don't like. He said
"Even our shelves are natural products,
they are made from bamboo."
The grand opening for Outtahere will
be in two weeks, and Winslow plans on
serving free breakfast all day in the hallway of UC 100.
Outtahere Hours
of Operation
Mon - TKurs: 7a.m.-2a.m.
Fri - Sun: 10a.m.-2a.m.
Fiddling Around the U.S.
Freshman travels with family band
Courtesy of Kyle O'Brien
Freshman Kyle O'Brien begins
school at USF with a rich musical
background.
ILYSE LIFFREING
StaffWriter
Passing students around the USF campus is like passing volumes of books—each
come with their own stories. As if graduating from high school with a 4.0 grade
point average and appearing on an episode
of Trading Spouses weren't enough, freshman Kyle O'Brien's unique story includes
touring the United States with his family's
bluegrass band.
O'Brien grew up in Evergreen, Colorado, where as a 7-year-old he wanted one
thing: a fiddle. Since taking up his favorite instrument, he traveled in his family's
band for eight years. He first began singing
with his father to songs like "Why Don't
You Love Me" and "Hey Good Lookin'"by
Hank Williams. Comprised of his mother
on bass, his father on guitar and vocals, his
sister on the fiddle and vocals, and himself
on the fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and vocals,
the O'Brien family band soon gained the
reputation as "the family that entertains
families."
O'Brien and his family have traveled to
over 41 states, as well as to Mexico, per
forming bluegrass music to eager crowds
at various festival circuits. These locations
include Nebraska, Kansas, New Orleans,
New York, California and Chicago. Janette
O'Brien, Kyle's mother, said of the family's
journeys, "Each place has its own character, history, and great people. We've had a
ball meeting people and making friends
around the U.S." Thus O'Brien's parents
were not surprised to learn that their son
was set on attending a diverse school like
USF.
In addition to their instrumental talents, both O'Brien and his sister are accomplished yodelers.The siblings won The
Western Music Association's International
Youth Yodeling Championship. O'Brien
has created his own CD entitled "Kyle's
Big Hit."His other awards include a scholarship to mandolin camp at the Oklahoma
International Bluegrass Festival in 2004
and he won the first place fiddler in the
Ainsworth Nebraska Country Music Festival in 2005.
Of his music taste, O'Brien said, "I
really like rockabilly, people like Buddy
Holly, Ricky Nelson, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley. Although I never got to meet
Ronnie Dawson, I was able to talk with
him over the telephone before he died^
I think Gene Vincent is really cool too."
O'Brien is majoring in politics and minor-
ing in music. It was not easy for him to
move away from his family as well as another band, The Bluegrass Quartet, that he
was involved in.
Outside of music, O'Brien's interests
include: baseball, announcing and girls. He
is also part of the Saint Ignatius Institute.
Although he is in a different atmosphere,
O'Brien plans to create a bluegrass band
and start a bluegrass radio show in San
Francisco. He would also like to start a
yodeling class. On choosing USF O'Brien
said, "I came because I wanted to expand
musically and as a person. San Francisco'
offered both."
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