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              THE MAROON ESTABLISHED 1923 VOL. 76 NO. 10 Loyola University New Orleans FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1997 Wolf Pub renovations incomplete By DANIEL TROSCLAIR Staff writer The Wolf Pub has been in darkness since the beginning of the semester, waiting to be renovated into a cyber cafe. The cyber cafe that will replace the closed Wolf Pub was scheduled to open in October, then in December. It is now expected to open Jan. 26, said Tim Bamett, director of the Danna Center and Student Activities. "We ran into a number of problems having to do with mechanical and electrical problems," Bamett said. The problems included getting enough electricity to the computers, lighting and new food equipment and moving the plumbing lines without having to rip up the flooring. To keep the cost closer to the $200,000 allocated from the capital fund, new flooring and a new store front will be sacrificed. The cost intended for the flooring and new entrance will be diverted to the repair of the mechanical and electrical problems. Bamett said he expected the plans to go out to bid this week. Construction should begin in December, he said. "It'll start before the school break," Bamett said. "There won't be any more delays I'm aware of. I think we ended it." Mark Atkinson, director of Loyola Dining Services, said the delay will not affect the final outcome of the cafe. The cafe will have computers, and po-boys will still be sold there. The cafe will maintain the pub's beer license. The cyber cafe will also contain a regularsized PJ's coffee house. It will serve more coffee drinks and pastries than the PJ's upstairs. "Our plan is to maintain some specialty coffees available upstairs near the present PJ's location," Atkinson said. A grand opening celebration for Jan. 26 is being planned. "We'll have a big campaign," Bamett said. "We'll have a grand opening. We'll have big specials. We've been working with food El Niño Strikes Jeanine Martin, psychology sophomore and Kristin Prentice, philosophy junior, take cover during Wednesday's rainstorm. By SARAH BARNETT Online registration creates confusion By MICHAEL GIUSTI News Editor Loyola students can register online for classes during advising sessions rather than going through LSTAR. The business school is the only college using the online method for the spring 1997 semester, which caused confusion and concern in colleges without these computer capabilities. According to Patrick O'Brien, business dean, all faculty members in the college have Pentium computers in their offices hooked into the university network. .With these computers, each adviser can advise students, register classes and print out the final schedule immediately. "I wanted all advisers to be able to sit down, access the students records and register them as they were being advised," O'Brien said. He said that although the new network makes it possible for every department to do the same thing, the business school is the only one that has these computers in every office. "The university has everything in place. All we need is to get every faculty member a computer," O'Brien said. He also said concerns about business students taking all the seats in common curriculum classes are unfounded. "A lot of our students have registered into philosophy, religion, English and other common curriculum classes, but none of those sections are full," he said. "Other students will not be frozen out of these courses because business students are enrolled." Students in the business school were able to register as early as last week. O'Brien said David Danahar, vice president for Academic Affairs, told the advisers not to register the students for common curriculum courses when he found out they were registering early. The business school is still registering students for business classes online, however. "We aren't registering for common curriculum now. Dr. Danahar asked us to back off, we backed off," O'Brien said. O'Brien also added that a few problems still need to be worked out of the online system. "We have in place a control mechanism saying who can register and when (with LSTAR)," he said. "Online registration still needs to be controlled." Although this type of registration may be done from any computer on campus, a user name and password are required to get into the system, which is only accessible to advisers, will help Educators confront differences in search of truth By SARAH SPARKS News Editor For the Jesuits, as for most religious educators, learning remains a constant struggle between heresy and truth. Teachers at any Jesuit university must nurture each student's intellectual development without sacrificing his or her spiritual core. "For St. Ignatius Loyola, speaking as an educator, not a spiritual guide, he wanted Values and Education Part 4 of 5 schools to teach theology as the queen of th e sciences," said the Rev. James Carter SJ., university chancellor. "He wanted everything to be related to God the creator in some way, so it's part of our tradition that the students should be made aware of connections without every class being turned into a class on catechism or theology." Carter said the common curriculum requirements were initiated to unify students' world views and help them realize the underlying current of Jesuit values in every course. Daniel Sheridan, associate provost for Academic Affairs, said even though Jesuit values at Loyola have changed drastically since the school was chartered in 1912, their highest ideal has always been the search for truth. "Jesuits have a theme of adapting to what the needs are. If there is a core value, it is the Latin word magis — more," he said. Yet some students wonder why they are required to learn other religious and philosophical thought or subjects that seem to oppose church teachings in common curriculum classes. Carter said he disagrees with those who believe physics and religion remain Faculty senate to examine post-tenure review during upcoming discussion By STEPHEN STUART Life & Times Editor Rising tuition costs and greater demands for faculty accountability have prompted several universities across the country to reconsider the way they evaluate tenured faculty. Over the past year, stale schools like the University of Texas have moved to the ANALYSIS forefront of the national debate on tenure with their proposals for post-tenure reviews after calls by governing boards and legislators for greater faculty accountability. Formal review processes for faculty compose just one part of the broader issue of tenure but have spaiked debate among both public and private institutions. Starting in December, Loyola faculty members will begin their own look at the university's tenure process, including the usefulness of formal post-tenure reviews by a professor's peers. The executive council of the faculty senate has made tenure a key part of its agenda for the year, said M. Isabel Medina, associate law professor and chairwoman of the faculty senate. The discussion will look broadly at Loyola's tenure process, Medina said. "We'll see if the process we have in place achieves what we want it to achieve in higher education," she said. Post-tenure review usually involves professors' peers evaluating their work over a period of years. Most universities with such reviews use them to evaluate and improve faculty performance rather than to And grounds for termination or a reason to eliminate tenure altogether, Medina said. Some universities conduct the reviews on a cycle of about five years. 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