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SAN FRANCISCO FOGHORN 2130 FULTON STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118 NEWSROOM 415.422.6122. ADVERTISING 415.422.2657VOL. 105 ISSUE 13
TheFoghornOnline.comFEBRUARY 12, 2009
FREEDOM AND FAIRNESS
OPINION
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SPORTS
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Opinion Editor NicholasMukhar discusses ADD di-agnosis.RE: DEFinition Conferenceexamines where commercializedhip-hop went wrong. �e Foghorn staff is search-ing for love in all the rightplaces. Check out their per-sonals in this week’s issue. Women’s basketball losesback-to-back games againstSt. Mary’s and San Diego.
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Alex Edwards and Michelle Doral were two of four USF students who had a privatelunch with Adolfo Nicolás, S.J. Superior General of the Society of Jesus, who visitedcampus on Feb. 4.
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LAURA PLANTHOLT
Staff Writer 
 �e University of San Francisco hadthe distinguished privilege of welcomingthe Very Reverend Adolfo Nicolás, theSuperior General of the Society of Jesus,last Wednesday. As Superior General, Fr.Nicolás is the highest ranking Jesuit in the world. Nicolás visited USF as part of hisnine-day tour of California, which he madeto commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the California province of the Society of Jesus. Fr. Nicolás gave the homily at the Wednesday morning Mass, and afterwardhe met with four USF students and fourstudents from St. Ignatius College Prepa-
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Bon Appétit has already begun the ini-tial stages of developing a 24/7 café onthe rst oor of the University Center toreplace Jamba Juice, whose contract endsnext semester. “Our main goal is to havea 24/7 business up and running as soonas possible,” said Holly Winslow, generalmanager for Bon Appétit at USF. But don’t worry, Razzmatazz-fans, there will still bea full juice bar. �e theoretical café boasts a take-outstyle with retail goods, a juice bar, all-day breakfast with assorted oatmeal and bur-ritos, a variety of high-end frozen foods,and pizza. Students will be able to lie outon big, comfortable couches and keep up with current events by watching one of the large at-screen televisions. “�ink of a cross between Crossroads and the caf,”said Winslow.Across the country from University of  Washington to University of Pennsylva-nia, major universities are beginning to of-fer some type of 24/7 café to their studentpopulations. “I do a lot of research at severalof the big schools, and they are all movingtowards these cozy, comfortable settingsfor groups of students to meet whenever. We need to supply students with otherthings to do on campus after 9 p.m. �at’s where we need to be,” said Winslow.Alex Platt, student body president, whose office is right across from Jamba Juice, thinks the 24 -hour idea would bemuch more successful than Jamba Juice, whose hours are limited to 10:30 a.m. to6 p.m. on Monday through �ursday and10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fridays and Satur-days.“People often come into the office herefor their Muni passes and then just go off about how Jamba Juice is closed. I think students really want something that’s openaround their schedule,” said Platt. �e biggest challenge facing the BonAppétit planners will be creating a loca-tion that allows for 24/7 access yet is stillexclusive to USF students. “Our top pri-ority at Bon Appétit is to offer a healthy,safe environment for the students andthe workers while still providing a quality product,” said Winslow. “�e number of entrances currently throughout the Uni- versity Center would make some peoplehesitant to allow students onto the prem-ises at all hours of the day.” However, dueto Jamba Juice’s size and position already on an outside corner of the building, reno- vating the location would actually be fairly inexpensive and speedy, according to Win-slow.
Jamba Juice Getting Squeezed Out
MORGAN BRIEF 
Staff Writer 
Jesuit Superior General Nicolás Visits
USF
Melissa Stihl/Foghorn
The universitys contract with Jamba Juice expires next year, and the plan is toreplace it with a 24/7
café offering juice and all-day breakfast.
After seven years, Jamba Juice will be leaving USF,but will be replaced with
 
a Bon Appétit
 
24-hour café
McCarthy Center is Gateway, Not OnlyWay to Study in Washington, D.C.
ratory School for lunch in Loyola House,the Jesuit residence. �e topic of Fr. Nicolás’ sermon wasmartyrdom, primarily because Feb. 4 wasthe feast day of the Jesuit martyrs of themissions. Of martyrdom, he said it wasnot something people should aspire for,but they should nd inspiration in those who are martyrs and model their lives onthe principles martyrs live by. He said thatChristianity is not about suffering; ratherit is about living, loving and giving to oth-ers. As an example of this, he noted theUSF immersion trips where students visita different culture for a short time and vol-unteer to help the community.Sophomore Laura Gengler attendedthe mass and was immediately impressedby Fr. Nicolás’ friendliness and good hu-mor. She was surprised to see him openhis homily with a joke and a reminder foreveryone: “You always have to keep a jokein your pocket.”Gengler was also one of the four USF students chosen to dine with Fr. Nicolásafter the mass. �e luncheon was to helpFr. Nicolás learn more about Jesuit educa-tion in the U.S.USF’s University Ministry ExecutiveDirector Fr. Donal Godfrey was pleasedthat Fr. Nicolás chose USF as the larg-est stop on his tour. �ough Godfrey acknowledged that many in the Catholiccommunity regard Jesuit universities —and USF in particular — as being too lib-eral, or straying too far from the Church’sdoctrine, he seemed unconcerned. “I’msure [Fr. Nicolás] hears an earful about Je-suit universities in the U.S. occasionally inRome,” Godfrey said. “But we must be agood Jesuit university if the Superior Gen-eral came to visit us.”Gengler enjoyed speaking with Fr.Nicolás in the more intimate setting wherethe USF students and the high school stu-dents spoke candidly about their diverseexperiences with Jesuit education. Genglertold him of her experience at World YouthDay in Australia last summer, an event where Catholic youths from around theglobe unite in a central location to meetand bond over their common faith. Junior David Alfaro was also invited todine with the esteemed guest. Alfaro, whoattended Cristo Rey Jesuit High School ina low-income part of Chicago, spoke withFr. Nicolás about how going to a Jesuit highschool completely transformed his goals inlife. “Growing up in Chicago I wasn’t usedto the idea of going to college and gettinga degree and a good job. I just wanted tograduate high school, get a job, and havefun.” Now Alfaro says he has many goals,and is just more engaged in the communi-ty at large. He wants to become a teacher when he graduates, ideally at Cristo Rey.“I just want to give back,” he said. With the Saint Ignatius Church havinga Superior General of the Society of Jesus within its walls for the rst time, and fourUSF students having the once in a lifetimeopportunity to meet the highest ranking Jesuit in the world, Fr. Nicolás’ visit is onethat USF will not soon forget.Since 2002, USF’s Leo T. McCar-thy Center has been sending students toAmerican University in Washington D.C.as part of a partnership program betweenthe two schools, allowing students to pur-sue semester-long internships near thenation’s capital that suit their major. �e program has been so successful thatin 2006, a summer internship opportunity  was added in Sacramento.“Out of about 50 students that have en-tered the program, we have had only twosay they didn’t have a positive experience,”said program director Patrick Murphy. �e goal of these internships is to givestudents real work experience, help boosttheir resumes and aid them in deciding whether their intended major is the rightcourse for them, said Angela Mucci, theMcCarthy Center’s program assistant.“It’s good for students to get out of SanFrancisco for a little bit and get a real senseof what they will be doing when they get jobs after college,” said Mucci, who recruitsstudents for the internships and servesitson the selection committee. Mucci alsohelps students with their resumes andhandles the program evaluations whenstudents return to USF.In order to qualify for the internships,students must have a minimum GPA of 3.0 and be at least second-semester sopho-mores. Each applicant must also submit aresume and write an essay explaining why he or she wants to go. �e McCarthy Cen-ter looks for students with a little bit of experience.“We don’t want the person for whomthis would be their rst venture in anotherenvironment,” said Murphy. �e McCarthy Center receives roughly 15 qualied applicants each semester, andafter that, decisions have to be made. Whileother schools send up to 20 students to theProgram at American University, USF islimited to just ve because the school paysfor most, if not all, of student expenses,including the two units that are earnedthrough the internships. Students inter-ested in earning more units, up to eight areavailable, must pay and work more hours.Kimberly Steffen, a USF junior, wentto D.C. during the spring 2008 semesterand interned at Bennett Group FinancialServices, a private nance rm that man-ages company investments. Steffen saidshe got the internship through a businessfair at USF before she left for D.C. Stef-fen is an international studies major and anAsian studies minor. She no longer wantsto study nance, though she found the in-ternship to be very helpful.“It was a good experience but I’m nolonger interested because it was a little bittoo boring,” she said. With opportunities through the Mc-Carthy limited, some students have takeninitiative outside of the program in order tomake the trip happen. Caroline Coleman, who was denied an internship by the Mc-Carthy Center twice, contacted AmericanUniversity on her own and was acceptedinto a similar program.“I had the most fabulous experience. I worked for the EPA and got to travel toSouth Africa,” said Coleman, who recom-mends that students search for alternativesif they can’t participate through USF.“If you can do it through school, great,”she said. “But if not, don’t let that be youronly option.” Coleman said the only dif-ference in her trip was that she was not inthe same internship class with other USF students. “I got to meet so many otherpeople,” she said.“We would love to take everybody,” saidMurphy. “But if you can’t do it through us,Caroline is a great example of someone who took initiative and made things hap-pen on her own.” �ere is more exibility in the Sacra-mento summer internships because stu-dents who choose that track usually livein the area. Expenses for USF are less andthe program is not done through anotherschool. �e McCarthy Center is able tosend eight students to Sacramento.Vince Mahan, a senior politics major who transferred to USF from San Francis-co City College, interned in Sacramentolast summer in Democratic Senator LouCorrea’s office of California’s 34th district.Mahan received a stipend to help pay forhis living expenses in Sacramento.“�ey (USF) paid for everything,” saidMahan, whose main job was to nd asponsor for Correa’s bill to increase privacy rights for mobile home owners.“In the spirit of bipartisanship, I wasable to nd a Republican to sponsor thebill,” he said.Mahan said that the McCarthy Centertried to put him in an office that matchedhis political affiliation.“I’m a moderate Democrat, and Sena-tor Correa is as well. It was a perfect t,”he said.Senior politics major and legal studiesminor Evelyn Molina also interned lastNICHOLAS MUKHAR 
Staff Writer 
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FEBRUARY 12, 2009
Adjunct Faculty in Negotiation Talks
CHELSEA M. STERLING
 News Editor 
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Jamba Juice Soon to BeReplaced by 24-hour Café
 �e part-time faculty union and theuniversity are discussing salary increasesand changes to benets this week as they attempt to agree and sign a new contractfor adjunct faculty. Jake McGoldrick, anadjunct English as a Second Language(ESL) professor and president of the part-time faculty union at USF, said, “We aremoving forward, in terms of pay increase. We would like to sign a two year contract.”According to assistant vice president forpublic affairs and communications, Gary McDonald, most contracts at the univer-sity are three years long. �e agreementthat the full time faculty union signed lastNovember was a three-year agreement. �e new contract for the part time faculty  will affect between 250 and 400 adjunctprofessors that teach about forty percentof classes at USF.In addition to the obvious desire for apay increase to keep up with the economiccrisis, the part time faculty union is seekingan extension of benets, like medical insur-ance, retirement benets and better work-ing conditions. McDonald said that USF is unique because it is one of a few privateuniversities that offer its adjunct faculty health care. To qualify for health insurancebenets, adjunct faculty must be acceptedin the preferred hiring pool (PHP). �epreferred hiring pool is similar to the ten-ure track that full-time professors are on.However, the tenure track has several stepsthat, when reached, provide benets, like asalary increase or other benets. �e PHPis the only promotional step that separatesadjunct faculty from newer faculty mem-bers. �is is one of the key points that thepart-time faculty would like to change intheir contract negotiations. McGoldrick said that they would like a career ladderput in place that would mirror the tenuretrack of a full time professor in that there would be several steps that offer a profes-sor an incentive to improve his or her per-formance and be evaluated and rewardedfor his or her merit. Once adjunct pro-fessors reach the PHP, there is no incen-tive in place to motivate them to improvetheir teaching and learning. CassandraMillspaugh, an adjunct professor for theSpanish department, would like to see “asystem put into place that makes sense andis fair.” She said that such a system should“value that they (adjunct faculty) stayed atthe university.” Lily MacKenzie, an ad- junct rhetoric and communications pro-fessor and vice president of the part-timefaculty union, also said that she would likea career ladder or system of promotionsestablished. She said that she has beenteaching at USF for 20 years and earns thesame amount of money as someone whohas just entered the PHP earns. MacKen-zie said, “We deserve to have promotionalefforts.” Mary Coombs, an adjunct profes-sor for the School of Education, said, “�ecommunity is not attending to the idea of fairness.”McDonald said that the salary increaseis still being resolved. �e part time fac-ulty contract will involve a raise, but theamount is yet to be determined. He saidthat the administration is offering to ex-pand the number of spots available in theKaiser health insurance plan. Althoughthere has not been a complete resolution,McDonald said that the negotiations havebeen extremely cordial and both partiesare interested in signing a contract quickly.McGoldrick said that the most importantpart of negotiating is nding mutual inter-ests with the administration. McDonaldsaid that the administration is very inter-ested in reaching an agreement that theadjunct faculty are satised with becausethis will provide students with a better ex-perience at USF.Another issue involved with the plan-ning will be staffing the café. Due to themassive increase in hours needed per week to run the facility, some of the positions will have to be lled by non-students.“Having non-student, full-time workers will denitely add to the café’s accessibility and success,” said Winslow. Jamba Juice, whose presence on campusbegan in 2002 when it replaced Taco Bell, will be ending a seven-year contract withthe school. When Bon Appétit came onin the fall of 2003 though, Jamba’s agree-ment was originally set for 10 years but was shortened to seven. “Most companiesdon’t even have 10 -year contracts anymoreas it binds the business in for so long thatit becomes susceptible to overpricing andination,” said Winslow.Many students hold some sort of nos-talgia toward the last franchise business onthe USF campus.“�ere are still days when the lines are just out the door,” said Willie Couther,head manager for Jamba Juice for the lasttwo years. “I know all the prospective stu-dent tours go by here, too. So I’d like tothink this is one of the rst things a lot of students even see when they come here forthe rst time.”“Based on my experience at Crossroads,I am naturally skeptical of any student-runor Bon Appetit-managed café taking over Jamba Juice,” said freshman Daniela Ricci- Tam. “At least Jamba has consistent prod-ucts, even if the hours change daily.”Alia Al-Sharif, vice president of So-cial Justice for ASUSF, has mixed feelingsabout the juice joint departing. “I’m a veg-an, so I always enjoyed their soy smooth-ies, but I feel like it was just too small of a location because they would always runout of soy, which I would have to buy fromCrossroads and add myself.”No matter what happens in the future,though, Bon Appétit will still be serving Jamba Juice until all the arrangements arenalized. “We are still only in the researchphase, after all,” said Winslow.
Students Re-examine Hip-Hop
 �is past weekend USF hosted its sec-ond annual hip-hop conference. Over150 students signed up to attend the RE:DEFinition Conference in search of un-derstanding where hip-hop went wrong. �e purpose of the conference was to re-dene the four elements of hip-hop: DJ,MC, break dancing, and graffiti. At theconference participants stepped out of this“hip-pop” culture and took a look at whathip-hop culture was founded on.James Taylor, a politics professor atUSF, noted the difference between hip-hop and “hip-pop,” suggesting that themusic has fallen subject to commercial-ization. “Hip-hop used to be the CNN of the streets,” said Taylor. Now, commercialhip-hop music is lyrically associated withsupporting consumerism, sexism and op-pression. A lot of new age hip-hop culturehas stemmed from the music, but as many learned on Saturday, music was only onepart of the hip-hop culture. �e four ele-ments of hip-hop were broken down intopresentations facilitated by experts in theeld.Among the facilitators was Juan “Won- way” Amador, a member of �e Secluded Journalists hip hop group. Amador intro-duced many participants to the art of beinga master of ceremonies (MC). He gatheredstudents in a circle and challenged themto dig deep into their values and create aninspirational rap. With instrumental mu-sic in the background and pens on paper,newcomers to the hip-hop culture becamemasters of ceremony. Raquel Wiggins, a volunteer, said, “I think the most valuablething I took from it was the realization of the impact that hip hop has on the world,and the way it can inuence almost every aspect of a person’s life.”At the conference, fame came sec-ond. Wonway has performed with popularperformers such as MF Doom, ZION I,Hieroglyphics, Immortal Technique andmany more, but he was not here for rec-ognition. “All that we know about fameleads us to Hollywood,” said SPIE a localbay area artist. Artists like SPIE invitedstudents to develop a home grown senseof fame. Fame is associated with some-body that does something better than weknow otherwise, and SPIE demonstratedthat there is a little fame in everybody. �eart of graffiti and its originality dates back to the history books way back before thespray can was invented.Much of the conference involved itsparticipants being active, as a sign that ev-erybody is a participant when it comes tothe hip-hop culture. Although commer-cialization of hip-hop is still very muchalive, some of the participants left with anew sense of redened music taste. KirstynSchilling, a sophomore at USF, said, “I try to really keep my ear to the ground for themore ‘underground’ artists... the artiststhat haven’t been commercialized and arestill true to the roots…and make sure that when I spend the money, it goes to thoseartists.”�e elements of break dancing and dee- jaying were also covered through separatepresentations and ultimately integratedinto a performance to demonstrate how allfour elements work together. While Won- way was on the microphone, his band wasbuilding beats and stimulating the audi-ence. B-boys and B-girls jumped into cen-ter stage; they spun around and jumped tothe ow of the music. �e ow of poetry  was alive, the people were participating,and a community was reborn. Since theorigin of hip-hop, the message was clearand at the conference resurrected; hip-hopis here to stay.ANDY LAUREANO
Staff Writer 
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summer in Sacramento. Molina was putin Senator Roy Ashburn’s office of Cali-fornia’s 18th district.“�e internship solidied that politicsis what I want to do,” said Molina, who wants to go to law school after nishingher undergrad. “I would recommend it[the internship] to other students 150%,”she said.Some students are questioning theMcCarthy Center’s methods in selectingapplicants. Coleman, along with seniorRory Koznik, who went on the D.C. trip,both say they are still unclear uncertainabouton the selection process. Koznik  was denied the rst time he applied, andaccepted the second time. “My qualica-tions didn’t change,” he said.Murphy explained that applicationsare evaluated by members of the CareerCenter and student alumni of the pro-gram. If there are more qualied studentsthan available slots, it comes down to how  well applicants present their argument intheir essays.“If we can’t take you, we won’t standin your way of pursuing another way tomake the trip,” said Murphy. “We will stilltry to help students wherever we can.”
Students intern in D.C.
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Students gather in Fromm Hall to learn about the culture and roots of hip-hop.
 
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New Business Program Offers Travel
ANNIE STEIMEL
Staff Writer 
 �e idea of globalization has become aprevalent topic in a liberal arts education,emerging as a necessary concept speci-cally in the world of business. �is year, it will reach even further into the sphere of academics here at USF.Beginning in the fall of 2009, USF, ISQ  of Barcelona, Spain and Fu Jen CatholicUniversity of Taipei, Taiwan will be host-ing business students as they work towardsa joint Master of Global Entrepreneurshipand Management degree. �is new and unique program spansthe course of a year, with students spend-ing four months in Barcelona, Taipei andconcluding their studies in San Francisco.Each school will provide one third of thestudents and one third of the faculty mem-bers throughout the course of the fourmonths that it hosts students. �e three partner schools have many similarities, stemming from their Jesuitheritage and accreditation by the Asso-ciation to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), demonstrating theirreputations as top schools in their respec-tive countries. �e schools were chosenbased on their reputations as well as theirrespect for Jesuit values in education. De-spite these similarities, the schools werealso chosen for involvement based on theirdifferences. While the sequence of courses remainscoherent, even across three continents, thesubject matter will vary from location tolocation. According to Professor Shenza-ho Fu, chairman of the committee for theprogram, as well as Professor Dayle Smith,a member of this committee, the curricu-lum was divided to leverage the strengthsof each partner school.IQS in Spain offers a faculty capable of teaching students about the latest in devel-opment and technology because of its lo-cation within the European Union. Whilein Barcelona, students will take classes intechnology appreciation, product develop-ment and cross-cultural management.Fu Jen offers students a chance to ex-plore the management and manufacturingof global outsource activities and trends. While in Taipei, students will take coursesin operations management as well as acourse entitled, “Global Competitiveness,Entry Barriers and Strategic Alliance.” �e University of San Francisco ex-ists in a city that hosts a large number of global businesses. �e curriculum in SanFrancisco includes classes on cross-cul-tural marketing, leadership and a courseentitled “Venture Capital, Corporate En-trepreneurship and Micro Financing.” While the curriculum remains inten-sive over the course of the year, students will be expected to venture out into thecountry in which they are studying. Ac-cording to the program’s website, students will “visit start-up companies, researchenters, venture investors as well as globalcorporations,” in each of the countries thatthey visit.Co-curricular activities vary from coun-try to country: at IQS students will visittechnology research centers and socialservice facilities; at Fu Jen, students willexperience global outsourcing centers likeshipping docks, warehouses and factoriesas well as call centers and job fairs; at USF activities include trips to Silicon Valley and venture capital rms as well as trips tostart-up companies and ad agencies.Upon completion of the program, stu-dents achieve a joint masters in global en-trepreneurship and management from thethree universities as well as a connectionto a truly global alumni network.For the better part of last year, talk on Wall Street and in Washington on thetopic of education centered around fro-zen credit markets and worry that studentloans would be in short supply. Lenders were dropped out of federally backed stu-dent loan programs, and banks were hoard-ing cash amid widely held concern overnancial turbulence related to free-fall-ing housing prices. �is left some parentsand students scrambling at the last min-ute to secure loans to pay for college. Yet,after initial concern it became apparentthat there would be enough money to goaround, although some lending would beunder less attractive terms or with higherinterest rates.However, as one crisis passes, anotherlooms on the horizon for college students.Deation, when prices go down instead of up as they tend to do, would cause a seriousproblem for all borrowers, including thoseholding student loans. As prices decline, the value of a dollar increases because it buysmore goods; however this means problemsfor borrowers because declining prices alsomean the real value of debt increases. Forevery percentage point of deation, the real value of debt students owe would increaseby one percent. Deation would signi-cantly increase the cost of debt to collegestudents, just as the job market for new graduates looks bleakest. While the U.S. economy is not currently experiencing deation it is getting awfully close; prices rose by just 0.01 percent last year, the smallest increase since 1954. Ata meeting last �ursday, St. Louis FederalReserve Bank President James Bullard ex-pressed his concern over deation and pre-dicted that prices could “end up in nega-tive territory” this year, as was reported by Reuters. While deation is bad for student bor-rowers, more ination is actually a goodthing, at least for students with xed inter-est rate loans like the ones issued by mostfederal loan programs. If, for example, astudent owes $25,000 in debt, and ina-tion is 3 percent per year, which is thelong term average in the U.S. economy,then each year the real value of that debtgoes down by three percent. Historically,increases in wages outpace increases inprices, so once a student hits the 9-5 cir-cuit, he or she should expect their wage toincrease by at least the rate of ination. In-creases in wages due to ination coupled with xed rate loans means that a worker will be making the same loan payment ev-ery month but earning a higher and highersalary, above and beyond any promotionsor pay increases related to increased expe-rience or responsibility. In the end, ina-tion can reduce the real amount of money a student borrower pays back in the longrun.Student borrowers have everything tolose from deation and those with xedinterest rate loans have everything to gainfrom ination. For these reasons studentsshould champion inationary policies likethe economic stimulus bill and other gov-ernment spending as well as increases inthe money supplied to banks via the Fed-eral Reserve.
Dons Dollars and Cents
HUNTER PATTERSON
Staff Writer 
New threat on the horizon: What the changingeconomic climate means for student loans
Senate Votes to Extend Crossroads Hours
In their rst meeting of the spring se-mester, ASUSF discussed the logistics of a resolution that would extend Crossroads’hours and talked about another resolu-tion to amend the Gleeson Library guestpolicy.Sophomore class representatives Pat-rick Sudlow and Lansen Leu introducedthe Crossroads resolution in Decemberbecause they continually heard complaintsthat there was no place on campus to getfood after Crossroads closes at 11:30 p.m.Sudlow, along with Leu, approached Hol-ly Winslow, the general manager of BonAppétit, about extending the hours to ac-commodate students’ needs. Winslow wasreceptive to the suggestion, but asked Sud-low and Leu to develop a formal resolu-tion. After the resolution was passed by Senate in December, Sudlow began hav-ing follow-up meetings with Winslow todiscuss worker safety and security duringthe late night hours. �e hours of opera-tion would be extended until 3 a.m. on �ursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. �elogistics are still being discussed; Sudlow  will be meeting with One Card and DanLawson, director of public safety, this week to discuss extra security measures. Sudlow suggested that the rst and second oorsof the university center building would belocked after midnight and only be accessi-ble through a swipe-card access system toensure that only students are entering thebuilding. He would also like public safety to do a walk through in Crossroads every hour and conrm that they will providerides for the Crossroads workers if need-ed. Shuttle service ends at 1 a.m., thusstudent workers would need public safety to escort them to their homes. Sudlow and Leu will also be meeting with Hailey Anderson, the general manager of Cross-roads, to see how she will staff the café forthe late night hours. Sudlow mentionedthat while some students are interested in working late hours, others are not. He saidthat Crossroads may have to hire outside,non-student workers. �e new hours willbe advertised on Facebook, USFtv, and theFinal Flush.Ben Kerelian, senior class representa-tive, proposed an amendment to the li-brary guest policy in November, but theresolution was not approved. Senatemembers did not feel they had enoughbackground information to approve theamendment. �e current policy reads thata USF student can have a guest in the li-brary if the student calls 24 hours in ad- vance and provides them with the guest’sfull name. Alex Platt, student body presi-dent, said that while some librarians stick to this rule, others will allow guests withless than 24 hours’ notice. Platt said thatthe proposed amendment would allow astudent to check a maximum of two guestsin, and may require that person’s identi-cation to be held at the circulation desk,to ensure that the guest leaves the library. �is would reect the guest policy that thedormitories currently have. �e proposedamendment would prohibit students fromchecking in guests during midterms andnal exams. Platt said many questions were raised about the amendment andthat it will be voted on next Tuesday. Ker-elian could not be reached for comment.CHELSEA M. STERLING
 News Editor 
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