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Faculty upset about Thursday football game Students have mixed reactions to rescheduling of Kentucky game BY TRICIA RIDGWAY TIIK (iAMKCOCK With the USC-Kentucky football game rescheduled at the midpoint of the semester, ,USC students and faculty are struggling to balance school spirit with exam schedules. Some faculty members have tests they still plan to give Friday, while some have changed plans to accommodate the many students who will be going to the game. Kevin Lewis, graduate studies director and religious studies pro fessor, said he intends to keep the date for the Friday test he has had scheduled since before he heard about the changed football sched ule. Lewis said his students have not argued against it, though, be cause he discussed the topic dur ing the first week of classes. Lewis said that he found out about the schedule change early in August when he read about it in The State after he had the class syllabus fixed. The faculty did not receive any official notification of the schedule change. Larry Durstine, chairman of the exercise science department, also is giving his students a test Friday, although some have asked him to move it. He said he sup ports the football team and that it's a matter of students setting prior ities. "I think for the serious student, this has no impact on them at all," Durstine said. The game was rescheduled when ESPN approached the USC athletics department late in the “I’ve noticed here at USC, it’s (football) taken a little more seriously than I think it should be. It shows where the school’s priorities are if they’re going to cancel class on Friday for a football game.” STEFANIE LEVINE FIRST-YEAR POLITICAL SCIENCE STUDENT summer anu ouereu 10 uroaueasi the game Thursday. The USC ad ministration approved the sched uic V/uaug^ because of the positive bene fits national network ex posure would have for the school, said Kerry Tharp, sports infor mation direc tor for the athletics de partment. "You can't put a price tag on the amount of ex posure that not only the ioomau program dui me univer sity itself receives from a national broadcast like this, especially on a i nursuay mgm, i nai p saiu. Although many students are ex cited about the game, it does cause lems during the week when finding time to study for exams. First-year political sci ence student Stefanie Levine said that in her Spanish class, stu dents voted to cancel Friday's class and move their test to today. Levine said mis leaves ner naving 10 study harder in the early part of the week because now she has two le&ia un vvcuiicauay. "I've noticed here at USC, it’s (football) taken a little more seri ously than I think it should be. It shows where the school’s priori ties are if they're going to cancel class on Friday for a football game," she said. Josh Kammerer, a first-year computer science student, said he is going to the game even though he has three tests and a project this week, with one of the tests falling on Friday. "It's rather inconvenient,” he said. "I'm going to be really push ing it to get everything done this week." The issue of the game being scheduled in the middle of a heavy test week was what originally brought the rescheduling to the at tention of the Faculty Senate. Lewis brought it up in a September meeting and wrote a letter to President Andrew uujlciiacii cApicasing ins icgiciai the game's timing. Athletic events cannot be held during exam weeks. The matter of the game's scheduling was taken up in the September University Athletics Committee meeting, dur ing which the members decided that this week is not an official exam week. In a report taken to the full sen ate meeting this month, the com mittee recommended a consulta tion process with faculty before rescheduling large events such as • football games, but there was no additional discussion in the full senate. "I think the faculty should and could have been consulted," Williams said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Loyola president resigns amid scandal BY JANET MCCONNAUGHEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS - The presi dent of Loyola University in New Orleans resigned Tuesday, ac cused of sexual misconduct in 1986 while he was principal of a Jesuit high school. The Rev. Bernard Knoth, a Jesuit priest, submitted his resig nation under church rules that if a sexual allegation involving a mi nor is deemed credible the accused should be removed immediately. Knoth, president of Loyola since 1995, issued a statement denying any impropriety. The Rev. James P. Gschwend, • provincial delegate for the Jesuit Order’s Chicago Province, said the accuser was a student at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis. The school has been co-ed since 1976; Gschwend would not say whether the student was male or female. Knoth is also a graduate of the school. The Rev. William J. Byron was named acting president until a permanent replacement can be installed. Byron was dean at Loyola from 1973-75 and is mov ing to New Orleans from the Sellinger School of Business at Loyola College in Baltimore, where he was research professor. He writes a syndicated biweekly column for Catholic News Service. Byron said at a news confer ence that, if proved, this is "an other event in a series of tragic events that comprise the greatest crisis the church has had to deal with.” It is the only sexual allegation ever made against Knoth, Gschwend said. David Clohessy of St. Louis, national director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, said, "We ap plaud the person who had the courage to come forward. "We hope that if there are oth ers who have been victimized, they too find the strength to re port their experiences and begin to get the healing they need and deserve.” Knoth, 54, spent six years, starting when he was 33, as an ad ministrator at Brebeuf, most of them as principal. He also worked at Loyola University in Chicago and at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., before coming to New Orleans in 1995. Knoth’s removal fell under the 2002 Norms of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which led the Chicago Province to remove Knoth from active min istry, necessitating his resigna tion as president. The university board accepted Knoth’s resignation at a special meeting Tuesday. Byron said the board chairman was notified about a week ago and the full board was called into session Tuesday. The complaint was made ear lier this year, Gschwend said. It triggered an immediate investi gation and the case was sent to a review board, which found the allegations to be credible, a state ment from the order said. Gschwend did not know just when the complaint was made, but said Knoth and his accuser both had appeared before the re view board before September. The statement said the Province is working closely with Brebeuf. As is customary in such cases, the accuser’s name was not made public. Gschwend would not say whether the accuser is a man or a woman, but did say he or she was a student at the time of the alleged misconduct. Knoth did not attend the news conference, but issued a state ment denying any inappropriate conduct. It is the third allegation in a month against a high-profile Jesuit. Four women sued the Rev. 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