Wednesday, April 30, 2008 — Volume 2 Issue 18

• Teaching classes not the only focus for Seattle U faculty

  Despite some popular belief, university professors are not merely educators, nor are they merely advisors: Seattle University professors in particular are also passionate students of the world of academia, a fact reflected in the various research projects undertaken each year.

• Third-parties bring new tenor to debate

  After one year and one month of directing Seattle University’s goals for Jesuit Catholic mission and ministry, Patrick Howell, SJ, will become rector for the Jesuit community on July 31.

• Rents high, vacancies low on the Hill

  These days it takes a lot more than perusing classified ads to get an apartment near the campus; students need diligence, deep pockets and a bit of luck to pen a lease on Capitol Hill.
  

• Selling Seattle University: Growth drives marketing in new direction

  They may not be much, but marketing professor Rex Toh looks at the new banners flying high on campus as a step in the right direction.
  A faculty member at Seattle University since 1980, Toh remembers when people would drive right by campus without a clue as to what it was.
  

• Little-known student advisory panel to be dissolved

  Student groups exist all across campus, gathering for the purpose of advising students and administration on a variety of university issues.
  But there’s a group on campus, simply called the “Seattle Advisory Council,” that even Associated Students of Seattle University president Aaron Yoon didn’t know about.

• Nun, anarchist team up for social justice

  Victoria Marie lights a cigarette on the porch of the E. Pender St. Catholic Worker house in Vancouver, British Columbia. Like Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement, she enjoys a smoke on occasion. Her roommate, Sarah Bjorknas, just laughs. As roommates go, these two are as unlikely as they come. Marie is a Franciscan nun, Bjorknas is a Christian anarchist and a library worker. One committed to the Catholic faith, the other dedicated to rejecting structures of power.

• SU elects Smith ASSU president

  In the highest turnout in the history of ASSU elections, Seattle University undergraduates elected Kai Smith last week to be the next student body president. Voting took place between April 22 and 24 and, according to ASSU adviser Jeffrey Woods, 1393 students voted via SU Online.

• Mission Day examines vision for university, builds community

  Like any other organization or business, Seattle University devotes a day to examination of the institution’s mission and fostering community between members. While students celebrated a day without classes last Mission Day, professors and administrators took the day to consider the university’s commitment to an integrated Jesuit education.

• Feminist speakers 'bridge' cultural boundaries

  A panel of prominent feminist scholars spoke on issues of prejudice and struggle during “25 years after ‘This Bridge Called My Back,’” a special event put on by the Wismer Center for Gender and Diversity Studies in the Pigott Auditorium last Thursday.

• Third-parties bring new mood to debate

  Healthcare is one of the hot topics in this year’s presidential campaign, as candidates lay out competing healthcare plans in an attempt to win voter support.
  So it should come as no surprise that this year’s student debate focused on healthcare. “The Great Healthcare Debate” took over the Schafer Auditorium on April 24.