Gonzaga University - Spires Yearbook (Spokane, WA)

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The christian dimension of most deparments seems to be that some of the teachers are priests at mass

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Gonzaga is a christian university within a secular world. As such, she cannot help but question herself. ACTION - OPENNESS - LISTENING - AWARENESS - RESPONSE are all familiar linguistics on the college campus. But the actuality of nouns finds little reality in verb. Are we only a secluded ghetto? Do we promise only masquerade as false prophets of the Word .... Way, Truth, and Light??? Christians are not a group of right-thinking, good- living people, but those who draw life from Christ. Jesus seemed pretty down on the state of the world, and his first concern was that people receive a life that they did not have. It is fairly safe to say that most people at Gonzaga do not have it. The campus is one of the namic, uplifting, perhaps superficial and only vaguely christian. If ours is the fullness of the new life, it is kind of a letdown. Where is that wisdom not of this world? To find Christ in the raw, so to speak, try the student chapel, where, though the kiss of peace may overshadow the communion, the rightness of worship and the reality of this life seems almost plausible. After a taste of wisdom and a glimpse of Christ in the liturgy, the student may look for Christ working in the world, in politics, business, science, etc. Here the university is not much help. Prophecy is scarce here, and the Berrigans are subdued. As for academics, the christian dimension of most departments seems to be that some of the teachers are priest at mass. It is fortunate, however that the ordinary business of a psychology professor does not bring the explicitly christian into his class, because this would be an admission of the amateur nature of theology already lacks professional respect. Theology, with its claims of earth-shaking visions, should address the intellectual world in more than hortatory or dogmatic phrases and become political to politicians, business-like to businessmen, and biological to biologists. Our theology department is pushing for interdisciplinary studies, but presently has close to none. It is understaffed, and busy teaching the six hours of core requirement. Gonzaga's christianity is dangerous in that it makes belief appealing for the first time to many, but it cannot always give support. Eventually, you find yourself alone at three a.m. before midterms, or back home where churches have pews and no one understands. You can grow tired of the masses and see them for what they A'really are. The strength of belief eventually falls back upon the strength of your prayer life. Here Gonzaga offers guidance and opportunity. In an unadvertised service, some of the Jesuits spend many hours talking to students and sharing their knowledge of God. There are not that many ideal places for prayer on campus. Waikiki is about as good as a place could be, though some may wonder if it is christian to spend thousands for a neat place to pray. f Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor? l But with the normal worldliness on campus, we often forget the few places that we have seen Christ. written by- Anne Davidson Dave Broderick Kitty Burke photographed by- Dave Lucke

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