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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
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the game Thursday. The USC ad
ministration approved the sched
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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
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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
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"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.
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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.
John Powell, a best-selling
Catholic author and a former pro
fessor of Loyola University in
Chicago, on Sept. 8, alleging that
he sexually abused them between
1966 and 1973.
Indiana firm recalls
frozen corn dogs
WASHINGTON (AP) - An
Indiana company has recalled
33,000 pounds of frozen com dogs
because they contain undeclared
ingredients that could cause al
lergic reactions in some con
sumers, the Agriculture
Department said Tuesday.
The corn dogs from Olympic
Food Products Inc., in Kokomo,
Ind., contained eggs and whey that
weren’t written on the label.
Another ingredient, beef, also was
missing from the label, the de
partment said.
The corn dogs were sold in
stores nationwide. No one has got
ten sick, department officials said.
The company is asking
consumers to return the 2.75- A
ounce packages of1 ’ QUICKME AL ^
PREMIUM CORN DOG, BATTER
WRAPPED CHICKEN & PORK
FRANK ON A STICK,” which bear
the label code 40238-07. They were
made this year on July 28, Aug. 18,
and Sept. 16*.
The other com dogs under recall
are 4-ounce boxes of'’QUICKME AL
PREMIUM JUMBO CORN DOG,
BATTER-WRAPPED CHICKEN &
PORK FRANK ON A STICK,”
marked with the code 37175-02.
They were produced this year on
Aug. 18 and 19.
All recalled products have the
establishment code "EST. P-6882”
near the USDA inspection seal.
SURFYOURSELF ,
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www.fsis.usda.gov
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