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              NEWS
OPINION
Ever wondered what it's like to
get married at Saint Ignatius?
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SCENE
The LAPD's history of police brutality
is does not make Christopher Dorner
a vigilante-hero, says Kad Smith.
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FREEDOM AND FAIRNESS
SPORTS
Roman Coppola talks about his
new film "A Brief Glimpse Inside
the Mind of Charles Swan III"
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The women's basketball team
has showed promise despite
losing four straight
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Vol. 110, Issue 14
foghorn, usfca. edu
THURSDAY, February 14, 2013
MACKLEMORE
ROCKS USF
Story on page 5
Macklemore embraces the sellout crowd at War Memorial Gym on Friday, February 1.
Amanda Rhoades/Foghorn
USF Hosts California Supreme Court Hearings
RITA MCNEIL
StaffWriter
To commemorate the 100th year of
USF School of Law, the Supreme Court of
California was invited to hold three cases to
be deliberated at USF on Feb. 5, including
medical marijuana in Riverside county, plea
bargaining, and the death penalty.
The event was held to give the public a
better understanding ofthe way the state's
justice system works, as well as allow the
students to participate in a question and
answer session with the Justices. The hearings
attracted hundreds of students, professors, and
other legal scholars from all over the Bay Area.
Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye
said the session would "provide a group of
law school and local high school students
with a unique opportunity to question
The California Supreme Court came to USF on Feb. 5 to hear three cases.
Shawn Calhoun/University of San Francisco
Pope Benedict XVI
Announces Resignation
KATHLEEN DE LARA
StaffWriter
Pope Benedict XVI announced on Monday he will be stepping down from his position
at the end of the month, citing advanced age and health concerns. The news comes two days
before Ash Wednesday, the start ofthe church's Lenten season.
"Strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months has
deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately
fulfill the ministry entrusted to me," said Pope Benedict XVI in a statement from the Vatican.
During a meeting of Vatican cardinals, the pope, 85, announced his decision in Latin to
resign from the Papacy. When he was elected in 2005, he was already the oldest pontiff to be
elected in nearly 300 years, according to CBS News.
"I admire the pope's courage in resigning most especially as it has been so long since this
happened in history. It is a very big deal in terms of who will become our next pope. This
person will have a huge effect on the direction ofthe entire Roman Catholic church, and this
has implications that go beyond even our church," said Donal Godfrey, S.J., the University
Ministry associate director for faculty and staff spirituality.-
The 265th pope will be the first to resign since 1415, when Pope Gregory XII left his
position in an attempt to end the Western Schism during which three rival popes claimed
the title.
Cardinals will meet in Rome to choose a successor shortly after his departure, which is
scheduled to be on February 28, said Rev. Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, at a news
conference. Lombardi said they will have a new pope before Easter, March 31.
After Feb. 28, Pope Benedict XVI will be addressed as his eminence, or Cardinal Benedict XVI. He is spiritual leader of 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, according to the 2012 An-
nuario Pontificio, the annual yearbook ofthe Roman Catholic Church.
Supreme Court justices and to experience
their constitutional democracy in action, and
hopefully will inspire some to a career in
public service."
Due to the growingly contentious
debate of medical marijuana possession and
distribution, the case involving this topic
received special attention from the bulk of
university students. In the first hearing ofthe
City of Riverside v. Inland Empire Patients
Health and Wellness Center, Inc., the debate
revolved around the recent ordinance that the
city of Riverside passed which oudaws medical
marijuana dispensaries, defining them as a
"public nuisance."
In 1996, the Compassionate Use Act
(CUA) was enacted by voters that allows
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Art for Change:
African American SF Artists Seek
to Stay Distinguished
sarah rewers
StaffWriter
Last Wednesday, USF welcomed
an unique presentation from the Three
Point Nine Collective — an art group
that strives to provide a community for
all the African American artists living
in the San Francisco Bay Area. The
group was recently started in response
to the recent decline of the African
American population in San Francisco
to a mere 3.9%, which is what inspired
the collective's title. As the population
declined, so did the public attention to
African American art. The purpose of
the group is to shed public light on the
African American artists living in the
Bay Area and peg the question, "Does
San Francisco care if African American people are here?"
As founder A.T. Stevens mentioned, the artists.want to incorporate
the "African American presence in
the fabric of life" by exhibiting their
art, and not letting the San Francisco media exclude them. The Three
Point Nine Collective website further
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