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University and environs
Vol. 62, No. 13
February 9, 1968
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Sharabi to deliver
major policy talk
A major policy  statement    region be free from commit-
Core Curriculum statement
elicites mixed reactions
for the Arab world will be
made here next week in a talk
by Dr. Hisham B. Sharabi, according to foreign student advisor Violette Jacob.
Dr. Sharabi, professor of
history and government at
Georgetown, will speak February 14 at 7: .30 pm in the
third floor lounge UC on "US
policy and the Middle East
crisis." The lecture is being
sponsored by the SEC and
the International Relations
Club.
The lecturer, who will .also
discuss the importance of a
stable Middle East, urged prior to the recent war that this
nism and bent toward the
west.
Currently on a lecture tour
of the Bay Area, Dr. Sharabi
will deliver a major address
at Whittier College in Los Angeles before arriving in San
Francisco and will then move
on to Stanford.
Dr. Sharabi, a native of Lebanon, graduated from the
American University of Beirut
and received his Ph.D. from
the University of Chicago, in
1953. He has acted as special
consultant to various government and private agencies
and has published numerous
books and articles on the government and history of the
Middle East.
By Brandy Eshleman
Foghorn Staff Writer
The preliminary report of
the Core Curriculum Committee, issued last December, has
touched off a reaction among
various members of the faculty.
Dr. Warren Coffey, associate professor of English,
strongly objected to the committee's statement that
"moral education is the responsibility of the college as
an institution" and that "no
faculty member may rightfully object to this as an aim."
Dr. Coffey, however, does object.
"The point that seemed to
me   very   questionable,"   he
said, "was the exaggerated
emphasis on morality in university education. It, first of
all, rules out an idea that is
traditionally Catholic, an idea
of Cardinal Newman's, that a
university education is simply
not moral. It is primarily intellectual."
Dr. Coffey referred to the
history of the Jesuit educational system saying that their
original schools were intended
for young boys and that the
moral emphasis was perhaps
in order in that situation.
"However," he added, "we
do not have young boys and
girls here and we can't treat
them like that any longer.
"It's a matter of emphasis
June Upward Bound slated
By Sue Bird
Foghorn Staff Writer
USF's Urban Life Institute
will initiate an upward bound
project this summer aimed at
encouraging poverty-area students with academic potential
to attend college.
The ULI has applied for a
$125,792 federal grant to subsidize the project. The university will provide the additional
funds for the $157,240 program.
These funds will meet expenses for the first year of the
proposed three-year schedule.
Dr. Jack H. Curtis, director
of the ULI, said that government response to the grant
proposal sent to the federal
government January 25 has
been "favorable, but the project is not yet finally funded."
The final decision on the federal funds is expected within
the next two weeks.
Dr. Curtis described the
project as "primarily a high
school program. We'll take
the bright kids from the poverty areas of the City and try
to build up their college potential through summer courses,
counseling, etc.," he said.
According to the grant proposal outlining the program,
the desired effect will be "to
orient the high school students
toward college, provide them
the necessary skills toward
achieving that end, the self-
confidence to attempt it, and
eventually the actual opportunities in college."
The proposal also specifically outlines six direct academic
goals. They are: "1) to excite
the students with the process
of learning, and the desire to
pursue it beyond the high
school level, 2) to provide a
curriculum conceptual in nature and of high academic in
tegrity, 3) to give training in
basic verbal and mathematical skills, 4) to provide year
round tutorial assistance to
each individual who needs it
in order to improve the academic standing at their respective schools, 5) to give
concrete advice and guidance,
and find financial aid for students who are ready for college, and 6) to develop close
contact with the high schools
from which the students come
in order to help improve their
academic success."
The participating high school
students will be chosen from
Gorman grabs
ACS post
The American Chemical So-
iety recently named 25 division officers for 1968, with
Dr. Mel Gorman, professor of
inorganic chemistry at USF,
copping the chairmanship of
the "History of Chemistry"
division.
At present, Dr. Gorman is
studying the introduction of
chemistry into early 19th century India.
In past years, he has investigated various aspects of the
history of science at Harvard,
MIT, and the University of
Illinois on a Ford Foundation
faculty fellowship. He has also
done work at Berkeley on a
National Science Foundation
fellowship.
Dr. Gorman is a member of
the American Association for
the Advancement of Science,
the California Association of
Chemistry Teachers, the History of Science Society, and
the Society for the History of
Technology.
the five areas of the City designated by the San Francisco
Economic Opportunity Council
as poverty areas: Central City
(Tenderloin), Western Addition (Fillmore), Chinatown,
Hunters Point, and the Mission District.
There will be fifty participating students in all: twenty-
five boys and twenty-five girls,
ten from each target area,
and hopefully one-half tenth-
graders and one-half eleventh-
graders. They will be recruited primarily through their
high schools.
The summer portion of the
project will be in effect from
June 17 to August 9. During
this time staff and students
will be in residence in the university dorms from Sunday
evening until Friday afternoon.
A similar project, also called
Upward Bound, in its second
year at San Francisco State
College, suffered from discipline problems arising when
participants were living in
dorms, As a result State was
forced to abandon its "live in"
approach and presently maintains a day school summer
program.
Dr. Curtis explained that
USF's plans have built-in precautions to avoid the pitfalls
State encountered.
"The residents will be under
the firm but paternal eye of
Father LoSchiavo and Dean
Dolan. Also participants will
have more say in planning the
program," he said.
In the academic nhase of the
summer session all students
must take English Communications and one elective to be
chosen from mathematics, social studies, Spanish, French,
biology, or chemistry. These
really. Things follow from it
and what we will end up with
is a seminary for young
ladies.
"Of course, it should be
added that I have all due respect for the committee. No one
has more respect for them
than I do," he said.
Dr. Vincent Moran, assistant professor of philosophy,
has prepared a statement to
the committee explaining the
changes he would suggest
making in Part II of the document on the basic objectives
of the undergraduate colleges.
Dr. Moran is in basic agreement with these aims but
suggested "a number of deletions and other slight changes
in the interest of a clearer
and more concise presentation
of Part II."
He suggested changing the
emphasis of the statement
from Catholic to Christian,
eliminating a lot of the wordiness and placing an emphasis
on "academic freedom as an
indispensible means in our
search for truth."
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classes will meet two hours
a day, five days a week.
Students will also take one
non-credit, "interest" class in
photography, year book,
dance, music, art, drama, debate, film workshop, world affairs, Negro history, Latin-
American culture, African'culture, Asian culture, psychology, or a reading laboratory.
Supplementary cultural activities are also planned including lectures, and trips to
parks, museums, movies, theatres, historical sites, business
establisments. Campus recreational facilities and staff will
also be available.
The summer session experience will be fortified by the
follow-up academic year portion of the program. According to the grant propose this
will include "1) weekly Saturday classes at the University,
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Library institutes
new loan system
Quarterly
The San Francisco Quarterly will be out possibly Friday,
February 9, and definitely
Monday, February 12, announced beaming editor John
McBride earlier this week.
Copies may be picked up at
his office, on the ground floor
of Phelan Hall, between 10
am and 1 pm possibly on Friday, definitely on Monday.
Designed and printed by
Lawton and Alfred Kennedy,
the magazine boasts 33 poems,
four short stories, 64 pages,
and no art work.
Gleeson Library has instituted a new system this semester whereby books will be
loaned out for one month periods with no renewal, Dr.
Robert Gitler, university librarian, told the Foghorn this
week.
The new system was
prompted by a 44 percent increase in book circulation
over a <<ne ye.ar period (fall
of 1966 t') fall of 1967), and by
an accompany ing rise in paperwork.
For example," Dr. Gitler
said, "two week books are
often renewed, and they are
oftentimes overdue. When
they are overdue, notices
must be written and sent, and
this is more expensive now
because of the increase in
postage."
The new loan period is designed to reduce the load of
clerical work, as well as to
make the borrower less apt
to incur fines for overdue
books.
Dr. Gitler explained that
some other schools already
use the new system, and that
it appears to work well.
"If it isn't successful, then
we'll just discotinue it," lie
said.