The Aquinas 1991-10-10

              Thursday, October 10, 1991
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bly elected. a Supreme Comt Jus-tice
to tempocirily hold the post By MARY JANE NATHAN
of president Tuesday. . Assistant News Editor
Justice Joseph Nerette will re- As part of the Alumni Weekend
place the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aris- events, the University dedicated the
tide, a Roman CatholiC? priest, as Royal Way and the Gateway in a
president. Aristide was over- ceremony at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday.
thrown by the military after be- The Gateway, which has not
coming the !rrst democt;atically been completed yet,· is a gift of the
elected leader of Haiti. classes of 1990 and 1991.
The Organization of American Marie Trovato, director of the
States declared the vote illegal dllilual fund, opened the event and
due to the soldiers' gunfrre out- welcomed all those present. The
side the National Assembly dur- Rev. William B. Hill offered the
ing voting and the absence of opening prayer, calling on God to
members of Parliament. "make this the high and royal road
Truce holding in Yugoslavia
A truce reached Tuesday betweei:
t the Yugoslav National
Army and Croatian forces may
lead to the release of about 25,000
National Army soldiers and their
families who have been held by
the Croatian forces since August.
Some Federal garrison blockades
in Croatia were lifted Tuesday,
according to sources in Belgrade.
and Zagreb. •
Former Secretary of State
Cyrus R. Vance was asked by
U.N. Secretary Javier Perez de
Cuellar to act as a memator in
Yugoslavia.
National outlook
Senate delays vote
The Senate decided Tuesday to
postpone the vote on Judge Qarence
Thomas' appointment to the
Supreme Court. The vote was delayed
for one week while the Judiciary
Committee investigates sexual
harassment allegations against
Thomas. Anita Hill, a law prof~sor
at the University of Oklahoma
and former Thomas aide publicly
accused Thomas Monday of sexual
harassment. Hill alleged the
incident occurred when The two
worked together nine years ago at
the Equal Opportunity Employment
Commission.
Exxon Valdez suits settled
Federal and Alaska state criminal
and civil settlements were
reached in a $1 billion package.
Federal District Judge H. Russel
Holland accepted a revised pact
increasing the criminal penalty
from $100 million to $125 million
and an increase to $100 million for
restitution of the area affected by
the Exxon Valdez' oil spill. The
settlement is now final with Russel's
signature. Individual and native
Alaskan village suits are still pending.
to you.''
"The morals of the Jesuits ...
make us the people that we are,"
said Joseph Hanlon, president of
the class of 1990. "May this Royal
Way welcome and guide all who
enter."
A representative of the class 9f
1991, Kathleen Malone, also reflected
on the Gateway as a "work
in progress."
"I know I speak fOr my class" as
a whole when I say we're proud to
be a part of the Royal Way," Malone
said. "It's a real pleasure to be such
an important part of such great
progress of the University." . ·
As the sun set behind the crowd
of listeners, the Rev J .A. Panuska,
SJ., compared the students to the
University's construction.
''In your own lives, you're work
in progress," Panuska said
Panuska viewed the new freshman
dormitories as a trinity of three
dormitories in one.
He thanked the classes of 1990
Briefs compiled from The New
Peter Steinfels discusses CatholirJJewish relations in a
Monday evening in Hyland Hall.
York Times. ·
Aquinas photo/JOHN BA TIISTINI
and 1991.
Some other suggestions for
names for the Royal Way included
Iggy Way, because it leads to the
statue of St. Ignatius, and the Northeast
Extension, Panuska said.
The plaque to be placed on the
Gateway upon completion will read
''This entrance to the 'Royal Way'
is a gift of the classes of 1990 and
1991. May it welcome those who
seek God in all things. AMDG (to
the greater glory of God) 1991."
Homecoming King Marty Brennan
and Queen Carol Owens were
present with the king and queen
nominees, alumni, students and
other spectators.
Steinfels cites end
to faiths' cold war
By SANDY SNYDER
Aquinas News Editor
Relations between Roman
Catholics and Jews have come a
long way, ·but challenges for the
future still remain, said Peter Steinfels,
senior religion correspondent
for The New York Times.
In a lecture Monday evening in
Hyland Hall, Steinfels discussed
Catholic/Jewish relations and detailed
some of his experiences as a
journalist writing in this area.
Steinfels discussed the Holocaust
and its place in Jewish and
Christian histories. He said he was
able to view it from both the Christian
and Jewish perspectives.
"When I came of age intellectually,
I became aware of the Holocaust
... of the long history of antisemitism
... much of it rooted in
Christian teaching and Christim
outlook," he said. "I became, in a
sense, impassioned with this from
two sides."
Steinfels, the offspring of a Jewish-
American grandfather and three
Irish-American Catholic grandparents,
said his ancesll)' provided him
with this dual Catholic and Jewish
point of view.
Since the 1960s, there has been
a1,1 extensive change of mind about
the Christian roots of anti-semitism,
he said. This stemmed from
the Vatican Council statement on
non-Christian religions that rejec.ted
the teaching that the Jews were
responsible for the death of Jesus
Christ.
Not all of the issues have been
resolved, but they have been brought
to the forefront, he said.
For example, the idea that Christianity
as a covenant supersedes the
covenant that God had entered into
with the Jewish people was rejected,
Steinfcls said.
He described a number of issues
involving the "triple landmarks" of
Poland, the United States and Israel.
Regarding Poland, Steinfels
described two challenging stories
he reported. One involved a convent
that a group of Cannclite Sisters
moved into right next to the
Auschwitz prison camp in 1984.
The other involved a summer meeting
of Polish Catholic priests in
Chicago to discuss Judaism.
Steinfels then described two isSee
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