Fr. Stephen Privett will be inaugurated as the University’s 27th president Saturday, Nov. 18, 10:30 a.m. at Saint Ignatius Church on the University campus. San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and Archbishop William Levada will both attend. All are invited. A reception will follow.

The inauguration’s theme is Educating for A Just Society. Fr. Privett chose the November inauguration date to commemorate the lives of six Jesuits, their housekeeper and her 15-year old daughter who were massacred in November 1989 by military troops in El Salvador.

A mass to celebrate the new presidency will be held the day before the inauguration, Friday, Nov. 17, 10 a.m. at Saint Ignatius Church. A reception will follow.

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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum visited campus Oct. 23 and 24 and lectured on Human Rights and Universal Justice. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for her work as a fierce advocate for the rights of indigenous people in Guatemala. With her visit, four of the 5 living women Nobel laureates have now visited the USF campus.

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There were a record 300 entries for the prestigious Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, co-sponsored by University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Institute. Michael Ondaatje won in fiction for Anil’s Ghost and Michael David Kwan won in non-fiction for his memoir Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China. The winners split a $30,000 prize, designed to promote books that will create better understanding and increased cooperation throughout the pacific rim.

USF on the air

Steven Zunes, politics dept., has been featured by dozens media outlets in the last month on the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic and turmoil in the middle east. Examples include The Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, BBC World Radio, Christian Science Monitor, ABC Radio, Cleveland Plain Dealer, KPIX and KGO TV, San Francisco Examiner, KQED-FM, Minnesota Public Radio and KPFK-FM Los Angeles.

Roberta Johnson and her politics class were featured on KGO-TV the night of the first presidential debate giving their impressions and analysis of the dialogue.

The University's increasing enrollment was featured on the Fox-TV News Network. A growing number of students nationwide are choosing universities with a religious affiliation. The story later picked up by affiliates in San Diego and Salt Lake City

Phil Smith, former USF and Warriors basketball star, was on Fox Network TV, as well as the San Francisco Chronicle. A scholarship endowment in Smith's name and the name of Arthur Zief, Jr. was established at USF by Art Zief.

Kevin Chun, psychology dept., was interviewed by the PBS-affiliate KOCE-TV in Southern California for a 26-part series on psychology. He discussed multicultural issues in therapy and treatment for ethnic minority populations.

Donna Shaeffer, director of the MSIS program was featured on KQED’s Digital West on academia in the internet age.

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