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Association Discusses Student Bill of Rights

Student Fee Allocation Board Updates General Assembly on State of Funds The Student Association General Assembly made plans to continue discussions on the proposed student bill of rights and received an update on student fee allocations from the Student Fee Allocation Board at their meeting Tuesday night. Delegate Andrew Platt presented a student bill of rights to the General Assembly. The Student Fee Allocation Board presents a summary of the money they allocated over the past month. Ryan J. Reilly / Tower Staff “This was the first reading of the bill, so this is not its final form and has yet to be adopted,” said delegate Ryan Winn. [Read more...]  Read More →

Engineering Students Examine Explosions of Coke and Mentos

Letting the imaginations of engineering students run wild can cause some explosions, especially when they are given Diet Coke and Mentos. Students participated in a competition on Friday, November 7, where they were asked to create a nozzle which would shoot the highest fountain of liquid into the air. Nozzle size could not exceed the size of the two liter bottle of soda in height or diameter. A new record was set this year by junior Nicole Ildeofonso and senior Fran Corso, whose fountains individually reached 34 feet each. A record height of 33 feet was set last year by current senior Joe Cochrane. [Read more...]  Read More →

O’Connell Addresses American Bishops in Baltimore, MD

University President Rev. David M. O’Connell discussed the University’s finances, campus development and the papal visit during an address to United States Catholic Bishops at their annual meeting on November 10 in Baltimore, his first appearance before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops since 2001. The annual national collection raised nearly $6 million, which funds financial aid and scholarships, and serves as a promotional tool for the University, he said in a Catholic News Service article. “This past year [was] the best fundraising year in history,” said O’Connell. The current financial crisis has hurt the University endowment, according to O’Connell. He said the endowment dropped in October from $227 million to $144 million... [Read more...]

Trustee Says Obama Election May Lead to Black Pope

The election of the first African American U.S. president may lead to the election of the first black pope, according to University trustee Archbishop Wilton Daniel Gregory of Atlanta. The election of Sen. Barack Obama was “a great step forward for humanity and a sign that in the United States the problem of racial discrimination has been overcome,” Gregory, 60, said in a Timesonline article. In 2005, after the death of Pope John Paul II, the media and members of the Church speculated that a pope from a third world African or Latin American country would be selected by the conclave. Possible candidates included Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze and Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras. Gregory also mentioned that in the Vatican... [Read more...]

F.D.R. Picked Up Train at Catholic U. to Avoid Union Station Congrestion

The Tower reported in February 1942 that former United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made a quick stop at the University before departing by train to an undisclosed location. The University had a railroad station at the time. Previously, he had recieved an honorary degree from CUA in 1933. Photo Courtesy of American Catholic History Research Center. Rector James H. Ryan welcomes President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt to campus on 14 July 1933. FDR received an honorary degree as part of the day’s commencement exercises. “Mr. Roosevelt stepped from his car to the station platform, to a fast westbound train, in a few seconds,” said the article. “The obvious reason for this action was to avoid congestion... [Read more...]

CUA Archives Holds Comic Book With First Known Depiction of Black President

The once fanciful and imaginative idea of an African American one day being elected president of the United States could come true in a 11 days. Interestingly, the depiction of the first black president to be nominated by a major political party actually has its roots at the University. See the digital archives of Treasure Chest here In 1938, Pope Pius XI wrote he was concerned about the breakdown of liberty, political morality and belief in the dignity of the individual in Europe. He saw the United States as a place for political freedom and for Christian principles of justice to flourish. The pontiff wrote to U.S. bishops to ask for an initiative to be started at the University to enrich Catholic education. The commission, which became known... [Read more...]

Alumni Return to CUA for Homecoming

Homecoming brought past and present together this weekend, as students of yesteryear encountered the changes that have occurred on campus over the past 50 years. “The campus still looks good,” said Patricia Ann (Bergquist) Tartaglia, class of 1958, who came back to campus this weekend to relive the memories she created while at the University. “There’s a lot more buildings and students living on campus.” Tartaglia, a former nursing major, said there were more undergraduates now, as there were only about 2,000 when she was a student. She had 38 students in her nursing class. “There were more graduate students, about 4,000, then undergraduates back then,” said Tartaglia, who is currently retired and lives in Maryland. The Basilica... [Read more...]

Hockey Team on Thin Ice

The University’s club hockey team has had their season briefly postponed due to not handing in the proper paperwork on time. “The club hockey team would have lost its status for the fall semester,” said senior Zak McGinniss, the treasurer of the team. The team would have had to ask for reinstatement in the spring. The decision to briefly suspend the season was jointly reached by University Center, Student Programs and Events and the Athletics Department. Both were enforcing a zero tolerance policy for non-compliance with University rules concerning paperwork. The hockey team has six forms that must be signed by each player to go to the school, as well as other forms that must go to the American Collegiate Hockey Association. “Rather... [Read more...]

Office Star Novak to Perform at CUA

B.J. Novak, actor and writer for the television show “The Office,” will speak at the University on November 11. Novak, who was invited by Program Board, will perform a 45-minute stand-up comedy routine in the Pryzbyla Center Great Room. Following the performance, there will be a meet and greet with Novak. “This is probably the biggest event” that most of the long-term students have seen, said Andee Fisher, Program Board president. Novak plays Ryan Howard on NBC Emmy winning show “The Office,” a mockumentary about the lives of employees at Dunder Mifflin Paper Company in Scranton, P.A. Novak has also written eight episodes of the show. He has appeared on MTV‘s “Punk‘d” and in the films “Unaccompanied Minors,” “Reign... [Read more...]

Santorum Speech Focuses on Islamic Jihadist Threat

Rick Santorum, former Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, told College Republicans the University was unique in standing up against the decay that is in America’s culture at a speech on Wednesday night. “One of the things that we suffer from here in this country and the reason they suffer from in Europe is a complete lack of understanding of history,” Santorum said. “We don’t know who we are anymore.” Santorum, a current a Senior Fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributor to Fox News, spoke to about 100 College Republicans in a Pryzbyla Center Great Room. Alex Lorman / Tower Staff Santorum, 50, whose father has a graduate degree from the University, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1991... [Read more...]

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