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Steering committee member Jeanne Cunicelli ’98, lead donor and alumnus Putra Masagung ’74, USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J., Chairman of the Board of Trustees Dominic Tarantino, and SOBAM Dean Gary Williams take a ceremonial scoop near the site of the business school expansion.
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SOBAM Breaks Ground on Building Expansion
Before a group of university trustees, administrators, donors, and others gathered on the lawn beside McLaren Center, the USF School of Business and Management ceremoniously broke ground on its $18.5 million expansion project June 3.
The project includes renovating the school’s current space in McLaren Center, as well as the adding a 26,000-square-foot wing along Fulton street. Approximately $13 million in donor commitments has been raised.
Dean Gary Williams said the project “will take the School of Business and Management to a new level,” while USF Board of Trustees President and SOBAM alumnus Dominic Tarantino recalled how far the school has come since his days as a student in the 1950s.
“At that time we had Campion Hall and we had some wonderful huts left over from World War II,” he laughed. “We want the students of today to have the most functional and aesthetically beautiful facilities possible.”
USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J. announced the Graduate School of Management would be renamed the Masagung Graduate School of Management in honor of SOBAM alumnus Putra Masagung ’74, and his wife, Imelda, whose lead gift helped get the project off the ground.
The project is scheduled for completion by August 2004.
Web site Offers SARS Resources for Campus Community
A new USF Web site, www.usfca.edu/shep/sars.htm, has been developed to provide information and resources about how the university is responding to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). No members of the university community have contracted SARS, no university programs have been cancelled, and no students from regions affected by the disease have been barred from coming to USF.
“The university is not saying, ‘Don’t come,’” said Melissa Kenzig, coordinator of the Student Health Education Program. If any international students are prevented from coming to USF, she said, it will be at the behest of the country they are leaving or airport health screeners.
The new Web site contains information and advice for students arriving from SARS-affected countries, a SARS symptom tracking form, and links to national and international agencies monitoring the disease. It also included a letter to graduating students informing them that family and friends from SARS-affected countries who wish to attend commencement ceremonies are welcome.
The university has placed a moratorium on university-funded travel to countries placed on travel advisory status by the World Health Organization or the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Currently, those countries are China, including Hong Kong, and Taiwan. USF also is working with the USF Student Health Services Clinic at St. Mary’s Medical Center to ensure that appropriate care is available if a student is concerned about infection.
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A bronze plaque with an etching of Ignacio Martín-Baró, S.J. was dedicated May 16 by the first freshman cohort of the Martín-Baró Scholars Program.
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Martín-Baró Monument Dedicated
As part of a class community project, freshman members of the Martín-Baró Scholars Program on May 16 dedicated a memorial to Ignacio Martín-Baró, S.J. at the first tier from the top of the Lone Mountain staircase. The project culminated the program’s first year of living with and learning about diversity and social justice issues, said Associate Provost Gerardo Marín, who spearheaded the program’s founding.
“Fr. (Stephen A.) Privett asked a group of faculty to get together and dream of how to make the university more diverse,” Marín said. “This is one important outcome.”
The memorial features a bronze plaque with an etching of Fr. Martín-Baró surrounded by benches and small flower plots.
“We wanted to make this a reflection garden, a place where people could think about social justice,” student Dino Bischofberger said during the dedication.
One of the benches is decorated with colored tiles designed and fired by the students. “We hope that the classes that come after us will continue decorating the benches in testament to their ideals of social justice,” said Tekk Amaku, another student.
During the dedication ceremony, students also took stones from the memorial to place on Fr. Martín-Baró’s grave during a student immersion trip to El Salvador this summer.
KUSF Named SF Weekly’s Best Station
USF’s FM radio station, KUSF 90.3 FM, was named “Best Radio Station” in SF Weekly’s annual reader’s poll, published in the paper’s May 14-20 issue. The 26-year-old station was also named The City’s best by the newspaper in 2001. In 1998, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown named April 25 “KUSF Day” in San Francisco.
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