NEWS

Join us in welcoming Mark Ravizza, SJ and Heidi Kallen of
Casa Bayanihan, and to learn about other University Ministry programs.

Returning to the Philippines to study this past spring, Teresa Cariño ’13 anticipated a kind of homecoming. The Philippines is her parents’ homeland, after all. She had visited many times. What she found were families crowded into shanties and children living on the streets—scenes she had previously only glimpsed from the security of her family’s car.

Looking out the window of the Revolution Café on Seventh Street recently, Patrick Duffey ’14 studied a trash-filled lot surrounded by graffiti-tattooed fences. It was hard to imagine that the area, near the West Oakland BART station, was once a center of the West Coast blues and jazz scene.

The Interfaith Meditation room in Lower Phelan Hall is undergoing an artistic renovation and redesign in 2013, to improve the elements of the space for all faith traditions. Learn more about this exciting project, and how to make a gift in support here.