San Francisco Foghorn

              SAN FRANCISCO
Vol. 71. No. 7
October 20,1976
Gays organizing
by Corrine Carvalho
On Tuesday night, October 19, the Alliance for
Gay Awareness applied to
the ASUSF Senate for an
official club status on
campus. The Alliance has
met many obstacles to
their formation, which an
official status may clear
up. The group, a direct result of a class on homosexuality conducted last
year, seeks to educate
people about the problems, fears and presence
of gays.
The group met its first
obstacle when they sought
a room for the club's initial meeting. A formal
meeting room was denied
to them because they were
not an official club. Casey
Brown, one of the group's
co-chairpersons, remarked that other unofficial
groups have been granted
meeting rooms before.
Next, the club leaders
heard that the President's
Council was going to issue a statement against all
gay groups on campus
since the office of the
president "interprets"
them to be opposed by the
Catholic Church. Casey
and Laura Grotz, the other
co-chairperson, pointed
out this seemed unfair
since groups that don't
support Catholic ethical
principles have been allowed to form on campus.
The chairpersons also
pointed out that if the administration can stop the
formation of this club,
they could, theoretically,
prevent any club that they
did not like from functioning. Although the Gay Alliance has encountered
much support from students, faculty, and even
members of the administration, many administrators are afraid of a loss of financial backers if the club
becomes official.
The group did meet, however on October 1 and
drew up a charter. The Alliance for Gay Awareness
sees its main function as
an educator. They would
like to help gays with
their particular problems.
They also would like to
deal with many of the
stereotypes and fears seen
in the general public
towards gays.
Indoctrination reconsidered
by Phillip Marcou
"I personally hope that
U.S.F. is not a Catholic
University," said Theology Student Union President Joseph Van de Mortel
in his speech on the Philosophy Colloquiem question: Is U.S.F. a Catholic
University?
Van de Mortel, whose
speech was the last of the
six given during the Colloquiem, expressed his belief that a Catholic University should be first and
foremost a university and
only nominally Catholic.
A university's prime
purpose he added is to
help students seek truth.
The establishment in a
university of any specific
ideological character, in
Van de Mortel's view, interferes with academic
and intellectual freedom
and consequently, the
search for truth.
Van de Mortel's position
was diametrically opposed to that of the Collo-
quiem's second speaker,
St. Ignatius Institute Head
Father Fessio.
Father Fessio in his
speech stated that he felt
that a Catholic and specifically, Jesuit, university
should be based upon the
principles laid down by St.
Ignatius.
He quoted from St. Ignatius, saying that the ultimate goal of man was to
glorify  and worship God
and to obey and love the
hierarchical Catholic
Church, His representative on earth. This, Father
Fessio indicated, should
be the goal toward which a
Jesuit Catholic university
is directed.
The other four speakers,
Computer Science Prof.
Michael Kudlick, Philosophy Chairman Desmond
Fitzgerald, Econ. Prof.
Hartman Fischer, and
Philosophy Student Union
Pres. Peter Hess took a
more moderate position.
Some such as Michael
Kudlick, approached the
question from a humanitarian prospective, stressing a Catholic university's
responsibility to present
and discuss the moral issues involved in such
areas as business and
science.
Others like Desmond
Fitzgerald, spoke of a
Catholic university's need
for both academic freedom
and the expression of its
own Christian views.
A heated debate erupted
as the question was
opened up to the audience
following Van de Mortel's
speech.
One of the central questions raised in the discussion was how the search
for truth should be conducted in a Catholic university and if stressing the
Catholic position and hav-
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The seven new ASUSF Senate members peer down at the old senate and
pledge to breathe new life into it. They are, left to right, Claudio Chiuchiarelli,
Mary Ann Mitchell, Guido Galli, Alfredo Gamna, Eva McWashington, Claire
Sheehan, and Mack With. photo/Gustav Vafardari
Chavez rally attracts dignitaries
by Steve Purtill
"There is only one issue,
are the men, women, and
children who work in the
fields going to have the
right to cast free secret
ballots to decide whether
or not they want to belong
to a union," said United
Farm Workers President
Cesar Chavez at a rally
promoting a "yes" vote on
Proposition 14 held last
Saturday, Oct. 16, at the
USF Memorial Gym.
The rally was sponsored
by the Commission on Social Justice San Francisco
Archdiocese Flatland
Fathers, Sisters and Laity
of the East Bay, Catholic
Council for Social Justice
of Santa Clara County,
Conference of Major Superiors of Men,, Leadership
Conference of Women Religious, National Farm
Workers Ministry Northern California Working
Group, USF's Campus
Ministry and La Raza.
The mass and rally was
well attended by a number
of off campus priests and
notable national and state
figures including Calif.
Senator John Tunney, S.F.
Congressman Phil Burton,
State Senator Milton
Marks, Bill Maher of De-
lancy Street and candidate
for S.F. School Board, Jim
Herman of the Longshore-
mans Union, Tom Hayden,
former student activist
and candidate for U.S. Senate, Dennis Banks, leader
of the American Indian
Movement, Tom Ben S.F.
School Board candidate,
and representatives of all
the major media in the
Bay Area.
Chavez's address which
was embodied into the
Mass itself attacked California's agribusiness establishment as being responsible for the United
Farm Workers taking
their cause directly to the
people via the initiative
because agribusiness lost
so  many  elections  under
the original Agricultural
Labor Relations Act of
1975. Now that the farm
workers have got their initiative on the ballot the
agribusiness community
is trying to "buy" the election Chavez said.
In light of all the legal
precedents, Chavez stated.
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Season tickets available
University of San Francisco student season
tickets for the 1976-77
basketball season will be
made available on a first
come first serve basis in
the USF Athletic Department on the ground floor
of Memorial Gymnasium.
The season ticket includes all of the Don's
home games (13) and will
sell for $5.00. No checks or
money orders will be
accepted. Cash only.
For those students interested in sitting downstairs, a limited number of
seats will be made available between October 25
(Monday) and October 28
(Thursday). Those desiring upstairs seating may
purchase those tickets
anytime between October
25 (Monday) and November 11 (Thursday) or when
the allotment of 2,000 student season tickets is
exhausted.
Downstairs season
tickets will be distributed
as follows: October 25
Monday — Starting at 9
a.m. (75 downstair tickets
available). All upstairs.
October 26 Tuesday. Start
ing a 1 p.m. (75 downstairs
tickets available). All
upstairs.
October 27 Wednesday.
Starting at 1 p.m. (50 downstairs tickets available).
All upstairs.
October 28 Thursday.
Starting 9 a.m. (50 downstairs tickets available).
All upstairs.
October 29 Friday through
November 11 Thursday or
when supply is exhausted,
all upstairs seats available.
All undergraduate, graduate, law and evening students qualify for the $5.00
student season ticket price
with a valid USF student
identification card. You
must come in person with
your validated identification card to purchase a
student season ticket.
100 tickets will be made
available on a
game-to-game basis for
the 13 home games to all
students on a first come,
first serve basis. They will
be sold on the day of the
game only for .50 per
game. All procedures
have been approved by
OSD and ASUSF.